Shonda Rhimes
speaker
1,129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Apr
Shonda Rhimes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The budget for one episode of network television can be anywhere from three to six million dollars, let's just say five.
A new episode made every nine days times four shows, so every nine days, that's $20 million worth of television, four television programs, 70 hours of TV, three shows in production at a time, sometimes four, 16 episodes going on at all times.
24 episodes of Grace, 21 episodes of Scandal, 15 episodes of How to Get Away with Murder, 10 episodes of The Catch, that's 70 hours of TV, that's $350 million for a season.
In America, my television shows air back to back to back on Thursday night.
Around the world, my shows air 256 territories in 67 languages for an audience of 30 million people.
My brain is global.
And 45 hours of that 70 hours of TV are shows I personally created and not just produced.
So on top of everything else, I need to find time, real, quiet, creative time,
to gather my fans around the campfire and tell my stories.
For a television program, 70 hours of TV, three shows in production at a time, sometimes four, $350 million, campfires burning all over the world.
You know who else is doing that?
Nobody.
So, like I said, I'm a titan.
Dream job.
Now, I don't tell you this to impress you.
I tell you this because I know what you think of when you hear the word writer.
I tell you this so that all of you out there who work so hard, whether you run a company or a country or a classroom or a store or a home, take me seriously when I talk about working, so you'll get that I don't peck at a computer and imagine all day.
So you'll hear me when I say that I understand that a dream job is not about dreaming.
It's all job, all work, all reality, all blood, all sweat, no tears.
I work a lot, very hard, and I love it.
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