How to Get Away with Murder

*How to Get Away with Murder*
How to Get Away with Murder
Genre	Legal thriller; Mystery;
Created by	Peter Nowalk
Starring	Viola Davis; Billy Brown; Alfred Enoch; Jack Falahee; Katie Findlay; Aja Naomi King; Matt McGorry; Karla Souza; Charlie Weber; Liza Weil; Conrad Ricamora; Rome Flynn; Amirah Vann; Timothy Hutton;
Theme music composer	Photek
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	90 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Shonda Rhimes; Betsy Beers; Bill D'Elia; Peter Nowalk;
Producers	Scott Collins; Tracy Bellomo; Viola Davis;
Cinematography	Michael Price; Jeff Jur;
Editors	David Greenspan; Philip Carr Neel; Julia Grove; Matthew Ramsey;
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	43 minutes
Production companies	Shondaland; NoWalk Entertainment; ABC Studios;
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 25, 2014 –; May 14, 2020

How to Get Away with Murder is an American legal drama thriller television series that premiered on ABC on September 25, 2014, and concluded on May 14, 2020. The series was created by Peter Nowalk, and produced by Shonda Rhimes and ABC Studios. The series aired on ABC as part of a night of programming, all under Rhimes' Shondaland production company.

Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a defense attorney and law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, along with five of her students, becomes entangled in a murder plot. The series features an ensemble cast with Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza as Annalise's students, Charlie Weber and Liza Weil as her employees, and Billy Brown as a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department who is Annalise's lover. From the third season onward, Conrad Ricamora was promoted to the main cast after recurring heavily in the first two seasons.

For her performance, Davis received widespread critical acclaim; she became the first Black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, also winning two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Davis has also received nominations from the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series, the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and the Television Critics Association at the TCA Awards for Individual Achievement in Drama.

Other cast members also received recognition for their performances, with Enoch and King receiving nominations from the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards ceremony. The series also received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

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