BREAKING NEWS: ABC Makes Renewals and Pick Up Announcements

Attention ABC Viewers!

While the annual upfronts don’t happen until next week, the major networks are already releasing information on the shows that they are picking up to series for the fall as well as the existing shows they are renewing.

ABC has made their announcement, sharing that Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and Castle will all be back in the fall and new dramas Resurrection and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. received second season orders.

UPDATED: Nashville has also been renewed for a third season.

The network is also picking up the following pilots to series:

American Crime
EPs | John Ridley (The Wanda Sykes Show, Third Watch), Michael McDonald

CAST | Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Timothy Hutton (Leverage), Benito Martinez (Sons of Anarchy), W. Earl Brown (Deadwood), Penelope Ann Miller (Mistresses), Richard Cabral

Set in California’s Central Valley, it centers on a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial, which are examined through the personal lives of the players involved. The case takes on greater meaning in the community, bringing to the forefront America’s hardened views on race, class and gender politics.

Forever
EPs | Matt Miller (Chuck), Dan Lin, Jennifer Gwartz

CAST | Ioan Gruffudd (Ringer), Judd Hirsch (Damages, Numb3rs), Alana de la Garza (Law & Order), Joel David Moore (Bones), Barbara Eve Harris, Donnie Keshawarz

Dr. Henry Morgan is New York City’s star medical examiner, but what no one knows is Henry studies the dead for a reason: He is immortal. With the help of detective Jo Martinez, the show peels back the layers of Henry’s colorful and long life through their cases.

How to Get Away With Murder

EPs | Peter Nowalk (Grey’s Anatomy), Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers

CAST | Viola Davis, Matt McGorry (Orange Is the New Black), Liza Weil (Scandal, Gilmore Girls), Aja Naomi King (The Black Box), Charlie Weber (90210), Katie Findlay (The Carrie Diaries), Billy Brown (Hostages), Tom Verica (American Dreams), Jack Falahee, Alfred Enoch, Karla Souza

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock the entire university and change the course of their lives.

Marvel’s Agent Carter
EPs | Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, Steve McFeely, Christopher Marcus, Jeph Loeb.

CAST | Hayley Atwell

Set in 1946, this drama tells the story of Captain America‘s Peggy Carter, who goes on secret missions for Howard Stark while adjusting to losing the love of her life.

The Whispers
EPs | Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Dawn Olmstead

CAST | Lily Rabe, Barry Sloane, Milo Ventimiglia, Derek Webster, Brianna Brown, Catalina Denis, Kylie Rogers, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf

A drama about an alien invasion, in which earth’s enemies possess children’s bodies to take down humanity.

UPDATED TO ADD:

Secrets & Lies
EPs | Barbie Kligman, Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield

CAST | Ryan Phillippe, Natalie Martinez (Under The Dome), Juliette Lewis, KaDee Strickland (Private Practice), Indiana Evans (Lifetime’sBlue Lagoon reboot), recurring players Charles Dutton, Steven Brand (Magic City) and Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead)

A family man finds the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime murder suspect. He has no choice but to try to find the real killer as his marriage, his kids, his reputation, and his sanity are all at stake.

Thanks to TV Line for the details on the new dramas.