Network TV is ruled by Dick Wolf and Greg Berlanti, but it desperately needs the next Shonda Rhimes

New York Post

"When Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix, network TV lost its most popular female voice," says Robert Rorke. Rhimes, he says, "was able to bring a sense of adult romance, mischief and menace to such staples as medical and legal dramas, and made significant inroads in multi-cultural casting — believing it no big deal to have characters from different races working, living and loving together. She was also a starmaker, making household names out of Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, Sandra Oh and reigniting the careers of Patrick Dempsey and Kerry Washington. Without her unique perspective, we will live in a TV world ruled by Dick Wolf and Greg Berlanti. Call it bro world."