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ABC adding new Rhimes drama, five others


ABC is adding six new dramas next season, including projects from Shonda Rhimes, a Biblical epic and a thriller about the mysterious reappearance of a politician's presumed-dead son.

The Rhimes project, written by longtime colleague Betsy Beers, is The Catch, a thriller about a fraud investigator (Mireille Enos, The Killing) who becomes a fraud victim at the hands of her fiancé. It will mark the fourth Rhimes-produced series on ABC's scheduled, after Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder.

Of Kings and Prophets is the Biblical saga "told through the eyes of a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd," and stars Ray Winstone and Haaz Sleiman (Killing Jesus).

The Family is another thriller about a politician's son, missing for 10 years and presumed dead, who reappears but causes suspicions within his family. Joan Allen stars with Allison Pill and Zach Gilford.

Wicked City is designed as period anthology series set in Los Angeles that will explore a different case in a different era each season. First up is a 1982 murder case "centered on the rock-and-roll, cocaine-infused revelry of the Sunset Strip." Gabriel Luna and Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) are among its stars.

Quantico focuses on FBI training recruits, one of whom is suspected of masterminding "the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11." Dougray Scott and Aunjanue Ellis are among the stars.

And an as-yet-untitled new series stars Rebecca Rittenhouse and Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) as working-class guys who move to North Dakota to take advantage of the oil boom, only to confront a ruthless tycoon (Don Johnson).