"Grey's Anatomy" co-creator Shonda Rhimes said that she got pushback from "a room full of old men" who doubted the success of her hit medical drama after first reading the pilot in the early 2000s.
Rhimes, who is also the small-screen mastermind behind "Scandal," "How to Get Away With Murder" and "Bridgerton," recalled the exchange on Tuesday's episode of podcast "9 to 5ish with theSkimm," which she appeared on with her creative partner and fellow rookie showrunner, Betsy Beers.
"I remember getting called into a room full of old men, and they brought us in to tell me that the show was a problem because nobody was gonna watch a show about a woman who would sleep with a man the night before her first day of work," Rhimes said about 13 minutes into the episode. "And they were dead serious."
