ABC Greenlights Full Seasons of BLACK-ISH and HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

Variety reports that ABC has picked up its freshman series BLACK-ISH and HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER for full seasons.

BLACK-ISH Season One will run for 22 episodes, with 'MURDER' playing for 15 installments.

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In black-ish, Andre 'Dr' Johnson (Anthony Anderson) has a great job, a beautiful wife, Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross), four kids and a colonial home in the 'burbs. But has success brought too much assimilation for this black family? With a little help from his dad (Laurence Fishburne), Dre sets out to establish a sense of cultural identity for his family that honors their past while embracing the future.

black-ish stars Anthony Anderson as Dre, Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow, Yara Shahidi as Zoey, Marcus Scribner as Andre Jr., Miles Brown as Jack, Marsai Martin as Diane and Laurence Fishburne as Pops.

In HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, Annalise Keating (Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis) is everything you hope your Criminal Law professor will be - brilliant, passionate, creative and charismatic. She's also everything you don't expect - sexy, glamorous, unpredictable and dangerous. As fearless in the courtroom as she is in the classroom, Annalise is a defense attorney who represents the most hardened, violent criminals - people who've committed everything from fraud to arson to murder - and she'll do almost anything to win their freedom. On the surface, Annalise seems like she has it all - a successful career and loving husband, Sam (Tom Verica) - but her relationship with a local Philadelphia detective, Nate (Billy Brown), will force her to confront secrets about her life she never saw coming.

How to Get Away with Murder stars Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis as Professor Annalise Keating, Billy Brown as Nate, Alfred Enoch as Wes, Jack Falahee as Connor, Katie Findlay as Rebecca, Aja Naomi King as Michaela, Matt McGorry as Asher, Karla Souza as Laurel, Charlie Weber as Frank and Liza Weil as Bonnie.

How to Get Away with Murder is created and executive-produced by Pete Nowalk (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy). Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy), Betsy Beers (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy) and Bill D'Elia (Grey's Anatomy, The West Wing) also serve as executive producers. How to Get Away with Murder is produced by ABC Studios.

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