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The verdict is in — and it’s (surprisingly) good: ABC’s For the People has been renewed for Season 2.

For the People, which has struggled in the ratings, stars Britt Robertson (The Secret Circle, Life Unexpected) as Sandra Bell, a lawyer who regularly found herself in the Federal Court of New York, also known as ‘The Mother Court.”

The show’s large ensemble cast also includes Hope Davis, Ben Shenkman, Jasmin Savoy, Susannah Flood, Wesam Keesh, Rege-Jean Page, Ben Rappaport, Anna Deavere Smith and Vondie Curtis-Hall. The show’s executive-producing team included Shondaland heavy hitters Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Tom Verica.

Is there anything Shonda Rhimes can't do? The creator of Grey's Anatomy is executive producing a new show — For the People premiering March 13 on ABC. The legal drama (think Scandal meets How to Get Away With Murder follows young attornies for both the defense and prosecution battling it out in the Southern District of New York Federal Court aka the "The Mother Court." Since this is Shondaland, fans can also expect their personal drama to intertwine with their work creating the perfect addictive procedural. "It's as much a coming-of-age story for these people — it just happens they're coming of age professionally because they have this huge sense of mission to do this professionally, star Ben Shenkman told Variety. "It's an emotional color — it's an emotional pull — to be a prosecutor who wants to put away the bad guys [as well as] to be a public defender and want to defend the underdog and...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Shondaland's newest recruits. With For the People's premiere tonight, the world of Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and Grey's Anatomy gets a little bigger in a lot of the best ways.  In fact, it gets a lot bigger thanks to the large ensemble cast of the legal drama, which follows a group of newly minted lawyers who are learning to practice in the oldest court in the country while also, as usual, juggling their personal lives and interpersonal relationships.  The show also centers around the strong friendship between Sandra Bell (Britt Robertson) and Allison Adams (Jasmin Savoy Brown), which is the first thing that drew both Robertson and Brown to the...

ABC picked up four series today from ABC Studios, including Shondaland law drama “For the People” and the Jason Ritter vehicle “The Gospel of Kevin.” “For the People” focuses on four new lawyers working in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. It is created by Shondaland’s Paul William Davies and is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers. The series stars Britne Olford as Sandra Bell, Lyndon Smith as Allison Adams, Ben Rappaport as Seth Oliver, Susannah Flood as Kate Littlejohn, Wesam Keesh as Jay Simmons, Regé-Jean Page as Leonard Knox, Ben Shenkman as Roger Gunn,...

Between Friends, an internationally syndicated comic strip, will tackle a spousal abuse storyline between now and November. The strip, conceived in 1994 by Canadian cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy, is carried in 140 papers via King Features Syndicate.

The strip, according to its website, is a contemporary comic strip that celebrates the essence and angst of three forty-something women friends. Maeve, Susan, and Kimberly have evolved with time, ala For Better or For Worse, with Susan and Kimberly now parents.

The mostly humorous strip is veering into serious territory for a change because "a friend of mine was involved in this type of situation when she was in her early 20s," the cartoonist told Editor & Publisher. Bell-Lundy. "She confided in me years later...." Bell-Lundy did field research, visiting women’s shelters to gain insight before embarking on the story.