'Inventing Anna' from Shonda Rhimes gets Netflix premiere date

Aurthur provided the full backstory and synopsis:

"In May 2018, when Rhimes read Jessica Pressler’s New York Magazine story “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People”—a viral journalistic feat that detailed the scammy enterprises of a charming young Russian woman, who had grifted New Yorkers—she immediately wanted to option the story.

"The article was Rhimes’ first major acquisition for her Netflix talent deal, which had begun in August 2017. The eight-episode limited series began production in fall 2019 in New York City, and then had to finish a full year later because of the pandemic. Inventing Anna’s exact premiere date in February will be announced at a later time." 

"On Inventing Anna, Veep’s Anna Chlumsky plays Vivian, a reporter based loosely on Pressler, and Julia Garner, the Emmy winner from Ozark, plays Anna, the object of everyone's obsessions and projections. Inventing Anna is told through Vivian’s eyes, as she reports the story through speaking with the people in Anna’s life whom she affected, either because they’d been charmed by her or she’d stolen from them—or both."

Rhimes and her Shondaland umbrella revolutionized dramatic television with Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder and Scandal on ABC before moving over to Netflix. Bridgerton was the first product of that pact, and its second season is due next year.