Scandal US S01E01 HDTV XviD-2HD

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837576/plotsummary

"when you get into trouble there's only one person to call, olivia pope. olivia is a professional 'fixer'
who makes problems go away before anyone even knows they exist. for the moneyed, the powerful
and even the president, olivia is a legend in her field. her spectacular success is mostly due to her
unbreakable rule of always trust your gut. no matter how careful you are, when you do damage
control for a living, you're bound to cause some damage to your own life. she and her crew eat,
sleep, live and breathe crisis. each week, as the team races against the clock to defuse intriguing new
problems before they become full-blown disasters, they also have to deal with their own personal
issues. they may call themselves 'gladiators in suits', but little by little, olivia and her crew begin to
reveal the chinks in their armor. written by anonymous"

scandal is an american political thriller television series starring kerry washington. it debuted on
abc on april 5, 2012 as a mid-season replacement for private practice. the series was created by
shonda rhimes. seven episodes will be produced for the first season. kerry washington's character
olivia pope is partially based on former george h.w. bush administration press aide judy smith

plot
olivia pope (kerry washington) dedicates her life to protecting the public images of the nation's
elite and making sure their secrets never get out. olivia is a former white house communications
director for the president, but has left to start her own crisis management firm, olivia pope and
associates. she is hoping to begin a new chapter of her life, but is finding out that she cannot
leave parts of her past behind.
olivia pope and associates staff includes stephen finch (henry ian cusick), a womanizer considering
settling down, harrison wright (columbus short), a smooth and efficient litigator, abby whelan
(darby stanchfield), the firm's investigator, huck (guillermo diaz), a hacker with a cia past, and
quinn perkins (katie lowes), a fresh faced lawyer quickly learning the world of crisis management.

@sinclap2 and hilltopian -- thank you for researching and sharing info. much appreciated.


new show information page
http://eztv.it/shows/631/scandal-us/
added/updated april 12, 2012

enjoy 😄

i was idly curious as to why this is scene-titled "scandal.us", since a "us" suffix usually indicates a
remake of a british or, more rarely, otherwise foreign series. that doesn't seem to be the case here, so
i'm thinking it's likely to be a coincidental match with an unrelated earlier production. and, after going
through a couple of pages of releases, i came across these, which do look like good candidates
(http://orlydb.com/3?q=scandal):



my curiosity is still unsatisfied, though, because i can't figure out what series those are releases of.
there is one imdb result which fits both the title and the year, but that one has hundreds of episodes
(the genre is given as "drama", so i'm thinking daily soap), not just seven, and seems way too obscure
for a major uk-tv release group - which is what remax seems to have been, going by their release
listings - to bother with: http://imdb.com/title/tt0473428

anyway, that's as far as my investigation progressed, and i'm out of ideas as to where to go from here,
at least for the time being. i naturally tried simply sticking one of the release tags into google, but zero
joy. any help appreciated! 🙂

howdy kassyopeia,

i was curious too...

yup, there was a tv series in south africa titled "scandal" wich premiered in january 2005 on etv.
http://www.tvrage.com/scandal_za

although the 2005 series does not appear to have ever been capped and distrubuted, and therefore
would not pose a file naming conflict, it does shares the exact same "show title" as the new series,
hence, the us suffix.

as for the two episodes you found e01 & e07 with dates that are seven weeks apart...maybe the etv
series aired just once per week during season one and in season two became a daily/weekday show.

looks like it's still airing...sporadically.
http://www.etv.co.za/soapies/index/scandal_

soooo confusing. i've got a headache now...thanks kassyopeia. lol.

:grin:

aha, you are right:



i'd assumed the criterion was that a series of the same name had actually been scene-released, not
that such a series merely existed. but the rules clearly support your interpretation.

alrighty, that means that my initial question (which specific series the "us" tag was intended to
distinguish this one from) didn't make any sense in the first place - it's a general disambiguation with
respect to all earlier foreign titles, period.

as to what those seven remax releases (i only gave the details for the first and the last because the
others didn't contribute any additional information) referred to, all it took to figure that out now was the
better understanding you provided and a fresh mind. 🙂 first, i re-checked each of the other imdb hits
(http://imdb.com/search/title?title=scandal&title_type=tv_series) , but they unsurprisingly still don't fit -
and i'm pretty sure at least one of them is a junk entry anyway, which should be merged into the etv
series. then, remembering that remax seemed to be a uk-based group, i tried the british film
institute's film & tv database (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk) . you may want to add that one to your list of
research resources, they occasionally have information on uk-tv productions that doesn't seem to be
available anywhere else on the web... not in this case, though.

finally, i tried a simple google search for |scandal "tv series" uk 2005|. the first relevant hit is at
sharetv.org (http://sharetv.org/shows/scandal_uk) , and is complete rubbish - most of it blank, and i'm
pretty sure the few bits of information that are present belong to the etv soap. crikey. the second
relevant hit is at tvrage.com (http://tvrage.com/scandal_uk/episode_list) , and is the clear winner:

gotta say that i've never seen imdb quite that decisively beaten. impressive.

ps: the third relevant hit is, amusingly, this thread. 🙂

the synopsis of this series sounds really familiar to a film i saw some years back called inside man
directed by spike lee starring denzel washington, clive owen, willem dafoe, jodie foster, chiwetel
ejiofor and christopher plummer.

you rock, kassyopeia, i just added the british film institute's film & tv database
(http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk ) to my list. thank you.

doh! fresh eyes/mind indeed. when i first searched tvrage for scandal i didn't notice the uk show that
was further down the list. yup, that's a match.