Viola Davis & the gang will be back for another season! ABC has renewed How To Get Away With Murder for a sixth season, making it the third Shonda Rhimes show to earn a renewal today after Station 19 & Grey’s Anatomy.
How to Get Away with Murder has been a constant in ABC’s TGIT programming block since its premiere in 2014. During its fifth season, the series ranked as the No. 1 program in Thursday’s 10 PM hour among Adults 18-34 and Women 18-34. The series also remains strong in delayed viewing, with more than half of its seven-day 18-49 rating and almost half of its total audience coming in the days following its initial airing. Live ratings have slipped but it’s still a hot property internationally as well.
Murder has won multiple awards from GLAAD, NAACP and AFI and scored Davis a history-making Emmy Award in 2015 and nominations in 2016 and 2017.
How To Get Away With Murder stars Davis as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with five of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot. The ensemble cast includes Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Katie Findlay, Matt McGorry, Aja Naomi King, Karla Souza, Charlie Weber, Liza Weil, Conrad Ricamora, Rome Flynn, Amirah Vann and Timothy Hutton.
