premise: Scandal is from the 1980's.
hypothesis: Scandal . Some scandals are revealed by whistleblowers who discover wrongdoing within organizations or groups , such as Deep Throat ( William Mark Felt ) during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s in the United States . Scandal is an American political thriller television series starring Kerry Washington . Created by Shonda Rhimes , it debuted on ABC on April 5 , 2012 .