‘How To Get Away With Murder’ premiered 12 years ago today. Peter Nowalk, who'd worked his way up through Shondaland starting as a story editor on 'Grey's Anatomy' before rising to co-executive producer on 'Scandal,' created 'How to Get Away with Murder' as his first series as showrunner, with Shonda Rhimes serving as executive producer and mentor on the project. ABC ordered the pilot that December, and Viola Davis signed on as lead Annalise Keating that February, before the show officially got picked up to series that May, slotting into Thursday nights right after 'Scandal' as part of ABC's Shondaland programming block. The legal drama follows Keating, a formidable criminal law professor and defense attorney at a prestigious Philadelphia university, whose five hand-picked students get pulled into a murder conspiracy after growing entangled in her orbit both academically and personally. Alongside Davis, the cast featured Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt M...