High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scandal is an American political thriller television series created by Shonda Rhimes, which premiered on on ABC on April 5, 2012.Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope, a former White House Communications Director who leaves to start her own crisis management firm, Pope and Associates, where she works to keep the secrets and protect the public images of the country`s most powerful and elite. On staff at the new firm are fresh-faced lawyer Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes); womanizing litigator Harrison Wright (Columbus Short); investigator Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield); and computer hacker with a CIA past Huck Finn (Guillermo Diaz).