Scandal is a 2012 English-language Drama Thriller show created by Shonda Rhimes. The show was Produced by Merri D. Howard, Scott Collins, Matt Byrne, Heather Mitchell, Paul William Davies and Ramaala Mohamed under the banner of ABC Studios in collaboration with Shondaland. for ABC. When you get into trouble there's only one person to call, Olivia Pope. Olivia is a professional 'fixer' who makes problems go away before anyone even knows they exist. For the moneyed, the powerful and even the President, Olivia is a legend in her field. Her spectacular success is mostly due to her unbreakable rule of always trust your gut. No matter how careful you are, when you do damage control for a living, you're bound to cause some damage to your own life. She and her crew eat, sleep, live and breathe crisis. Each week, as the team races against the clock to defuse intriguing new problems before they become full-blown disasters, they also have to deal with their own personal issues. They may call themselves 'gladiators in suits', but little by little, Olivia and her crew begin to reveal the chinks in their armor. Written by Anonymous. Scandal stars Kerry Washington, Henry Ian Cusick, Columbus Short, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo D Az and Chelsea Kurtz. The music was composed by Chad Fischer. Cinematography was done by Oliver Bokelberg and Michael Wojciechowski and editing by Karen Castaneda, Matthew Ramsey, Gregory T. Evans, Julia Grove, Christal Khatib and Matthew Pevic. The show has a running time of 43 minutes for each episode. The show has a total of 124 episodes during it's run of 7 seasons. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Distribution rights for the series were acquired by Disney ABC Domestic Television.