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Scandal was renewed for a fourth season by ABC on May 9, 2014. [2] On May 13, 2014, ABC announced their new schedule, as well as a new time slot for Scandal. The show remained on Thursday night, but it was moved to 9:00 PM E.T. to make room for ShondaLand Production Company's new TV series, How to Get Away with Murder. [3]
The third season had an average of 11.5 million in Total Viewers, up 39% from the second season which had a total of 8.3 million. It also went up in Adults 18–49 with 43% with an average of 4.0/12, while the previous season had a 2.8/8. This qualifies Scandal as TV's fastest growing returning series. [131]
After a multi-episode hiatus The A.V. Club began reviewing the series again after having stopped early in season two. Writer Ryan McGee admitted that he had been wrong in his "hesitation about the arc that would ultimately lift Scandal from "promising" to legitimately great television." He gave the episode a B letter grade.
R.B. Philippe from Morning After praised the confrontation between Olivia and Rowan and the actors' performance, saying "Washington and Morton's chemistry is one of the best things about Scandal and even with a full dance-card of presidents and war heroes, her relationship with her father has been the most interesting one this season."
"Run" is the tenth episode, serving as a mid-season premiere of the fourth season of the American political thriller television series Scandal, and is the 57th overall episode, which aired on ABC on January 29, 2015. [1] The episode was written by showrunner Shonda Rhimes and directed by executive producer Tom Verica.
The episode was written by Paul Williams Davies and directed by Randy Zisk. [2] The episode featured the song "Think" by Aretha Franklin.The episode focuses on the auction for Olivia Pope on the open market as well as the White House and Huck, Jake and Quinn trying to participate in the auction.
The Nielsen score additionally registered the show as the week's second-highest rated drama behind the new show How to Get Away with Murder and fourth-highest rated scripted series in the 18–49 demographic, placing behind CBS's The Big Bang Theory (5.4) and (5.4) and Fox's Family Guy (4.5) and ABC's How To Get Away with Murder (3.8). [20]
The episode focuses on the continuing auction of Olivia on the free market and how everyone tries to rescue her. Showrunner Shonda Rhimes explained on Twitter that the twelfth and thirteenth episodes were one extended episode and was therefore divided into two episodes; " Gladiators Don't Run " and "No More Blood".