Ms. Professor

Kerry Washington, you may rest easier – you will not have to be the only powerful black woman carrying a show for black women everywhere for too much longer.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Viola Davis is heading to television.

The Help star has been tapped to lead the next Shonda Rhimes joint, How to Get Away with Murder.

Uh – Spoiler Alert! – just ask Fitz a key member of Rhimes’ hit Scandal.

Anyway, the show will be a suspense-driven legal thriller following a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor – played by Davis – and how they all like, get sucked into a life-altering murder plot.

Oooh! (I bet she did it.)

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