Shonda Rhimes

There’s television before Shonda Rhimes, and television after Shonda Rhimes. A true titan of the medium, Rhimes changed the game with her record-breaking medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” when it premiered on ABC almost 20 years ago. Since then, her Shondaland empire has grown with culture-shifting shows like “Scandal” and “How To Get Away With Murder,” literally owning an entire night of programming on the network during an era appropriately dubbed, “TGIT.” And when the streaming era came and upended linear TV, she continued to show out. Rhimes nabbed a massive deal with Netflix, bringing her studio to the streaming service and launching one of the biggest shows the platform has ever seen: “Bridgerton.” Rhimes continues to create boundary-pushing, addictive TV that captures the zeitgeist, and she shows no signs of stopping.