TV Guide reports that ABC will try once again to chronicle the drama (and in this case, let’s guess, bed-hopping antics) of Washington journalists, from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy:

Shonda Rhimes has mastered depicting the drama of hospital hallways and doctors’ after-hours action. Now, she’s setting her sights on the juicy lives of Washington, D.C., journalists.
ABC has greenlit Inside the Box, a new pilot from the Grey’s Anatomy creator, a rep for the network confirmed for TVGuide.com. The potential series centers on an ambitious female news producer and her colleagues whose extracurriculars, the net promises, will be more exciting than the stories they cover.

ABC’s tried and failed at this idea before. In 1990, they aired a very short-lived show called Capital News. We conservative media critics giggled at how they sold it. Christian Williams, the show’s executive producer and a former editor at the Washington Post, told Newark’s Star-Ledger:

“The reporters (at Capital News) work for a shining institution, basically the last uncorrupted institution you can find. Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism.”