At the table read for the pilot Shonda Rhimes told Bellamy Young her arc for the show would only consist of four to five episodes before she would be written off.
3 actors on the show have appeared in the Scream films: Scott Foley in Scream 3, season 2 guest star Elise Neal in Scream 2, and season 4 guest star Portia de Rossi in Scream 2.
For her work on the show Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to direct a TV series starring a black woman that was created by a black woman on one of the Big Three Networks.
Judy Smith is the inspiration for this show. She has a crisis management consultant with a firm in Washington D.C. known as Smith & Co. Judy works as a co-Executive Producer on the show.