Shonda Rhimes will obtain the inaugural Edinburgh Fellowship, awarded by the Edinburgh TV Competition, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this yr.
Introduced by Display Scotland, the annual occasion for the tv trade has invited “the internationally acclaimed, multi-award profitable author, producer, and writer, and creator of iconic TV reveals similar to Gray’s Anatomy, Scandal, Non-public Follow, Inventing Anna, Queen Charlotte and govt producer of Bridgerton, Easy methods to Get Away With Homicide and The Residence,” as its visitor of honor for the 2025 version.
“To mark this important milestone, the pageant is launching the ‘Edinburgh Fellowship’ which honors a person whose work has had important cultural and inventive influence and acknowledges their affect on each the worldwide trade and tv as an artwork type,” the pageant stated Monday. “Rhimes would be the inaugural recipient of the Edinburgh Fellowship in recognition of her long-standing, ground-breaking and massively influential contribution to the TV trade.”
She can even participate in an “In Dialog” occasion on the fest to debate her 30-year profession and “the place the trade is heading because it finds itself in a second of flux each culturally, economically and creatively,” Edinburgh organizers stated.
Rhimes is named a TV creator, producer and writer, in addition to the CEO of media firm Shondaland, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this yr. “She can also be the primary lady to have created three tv dramas (Gray’s Anatomy, Non-public Follow and Scandal) which have achieved the 100-episode milestone,” Edinburgh organizers highlighted. In 2017, she left community tv to completely produce content material in partnership with Netflix.
Stated Rowan Woods, artistic director of the Edinburgh TV Competition: “This yr the pageant celebrates an unimaginable 50 years of agenda-setting thought management throughout the worldwide TV trade. We’re delighted to mark this milestone with the creation of the Edinburgh Fellowship, which acknowledges important artistic and cultural achievement in tv, and we are able to’t consider anybody extra becoming to obtain this inaugural honour than Shonda Rhimes, one of many worldwide trade’s most revered artistic powerhouses and somebody whose international cultural influence can’t be understated. As we have fun the wealthy legacy of the previous 50 years and look in the direction of the longer term, Shonda stays an inspirational determine and guiding gentle for us all.”