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Barrier-Breaking Warner Bros. Exec Channing Dungey Gives Back by Championing Children’s Institute

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For the 2021 Power of Women issue, Variety spoke with several women in the entertainment industry who are using their voices to benefit worthy causes.

For more, click here.A decade ago, the ABC drama series “Scandal” was headed for cancellation after it struggled through a little-watched seven-episode first season.

Dungey, then head of drama programming for ABC Entertainment, had already fought for executive producer Shonda Rhimes to cast a Black actor in the lead.

In the spring of 2012, Dungey made an impassioned case for renewal to a roomful of Disney top brass, including then-CEO Bob Iger and then-Disney/ABC TV Group chief Anne Sweeney.“I went into that room and said, ‘As a Black woman, I am speaking out in favor of this show, written.

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