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Shonda Rhimes increasing her empire at ABC

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes addresses the audience after receiving the W.E.B. Du Bois medal during a ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. ABC, on Friday, May 8, 2015, announced it will make another Rhimes series for 2016, "The Catch," about a fraud investigator who is about to be defrauded herself by her fiance. The drama will star Mirelle Enos, who played Sarah Linden in the ABC series "The Killing." Rhimes is already responsible for ABC's entire Thursday night lineup of "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away With Murder." Each of those series has been renewed. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes addresses the audience after receiving the W.E.B. Du Bois medal during a ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. ABC, on Friday, May 8, 2015, announced it will make another Rhimes series for 2016, "The Catch," about a fraud investigator who is about to be defrauded herself by her fiance. The drama will star Mirelle Enos, who played Sarah Linden in the ABC series "The Killing." Rhimes is already responsible for ABC's entire Thursday night lineup of "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away With Murder." Each of those series has been renewed. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes addresses the audience after receiving the W.E.B. Du Bois medal during a ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. ABC, on Friday, May 8, 2015, announced it will make another Rhimes series for 2016, "The Catch," about a fraud investigator who is about to be defrauded herself by her fiance. The drama will star Mirelle Enos, who played Sarah Linden in the ABC series "The Killing." Rhimes is already responsible for ABC's entire Thursday night lineup of "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away With Murder." Each of those series has been renewed. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

NEW YORK (AP) – Megaproducer Shonda Rhimes is increasing her real estate on ABC.

The network says it has agreed to make “The Catch,” a new series by Rhimes about a fraud investigator who is about to be defrauded herself by her fiance. The drama will star Mirelle Enos, who played Sarah Linden in the ABC series “The Killing.”

Rhimes is already responsible for ABC’s entire Thursday night lineup of “Grey’s Anatomy,” ”Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder.” Each of those series has been renewed.

The broadcast networks are finalizing plans for next season in advance of presenting their lineups to advertisers next week in New York.