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'Grey's Anatomy' Season 16: Everything We Know So Far


Ellen Pompeo is contracted to Grey’s Anatomy through seasons 15 and 16; however, the actress said something to TV Line this week that suggests there might be more shenanigans at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital beyond that in her future.

“I keep saying, ‘I’m ready to move on and I want to stop the show before the ratings go down,’ but the ratings never go down!” she tells the outlet. “They go down a little bit, but the fact that we are able to hold our title as [ABC’s No. 1 series] is kind of [incredible]. It’s very cool to have these kind of ratings and be on a hit network show in this [Peak TV] landscape.”

Pompeo made headlines last year when she inked a $20 million deal with ABC for two more seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. Moves like that, she says, make it hard to leave. “[The] network and studio continue to incentivize me and just make me offers that I can’t refuse,” she said before adding, “I’m contracted through season 16, and beyond that… I don’t really know. I take it day-by-day.”

It seems the future of Grey’s Anatomy is still a mystery—even if Pompeo says she’s tempted to extend her stay. Until we know anything for sure, let’s focus on the reality: We still have the rest of season 15, plus all of season 16, to go. Here’s everything we know about that next (and possibly final) chapter:

Ellen Pompeo is the only confirmed returning actor. Of course, expect to see some other familiar faces, like Chandra Wilson, who’s been playing Dr. Miranda Bailey since the show’s inception.

Show-runner Shonda Rhimes doesn’t have an ending in mind. “I don’t think about it with an ending,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. “There is no ending in mind anymore. I used to have all these endings planned, but we passed one of them in season three and one of them in season five, and one of them in season eight, so I’ve given up.”

However, the show will end when Pompeo chooses to leave. “Ellen and I have a pact that I’m going to do the show as long as she’s going to do the show,” Rhimes told E! News. “So the show will exist as long as both of us want to do it. If she wants to stop, we’re stopping. So I don’t know if we’ll see 600 [episodes], but I want to keep it feeling fresh. As long as there are fresh stories to tell and as long as we’re both excited about the stories being told, we’re in. So, we’ll see where that takes us.”

The release date. This hasn’t been announced, but if past seasons are any indication, expect this one to premiere in September 2019.

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What Ellen Pompeo Just Said About the Future of 'Grey's Anatomy' Might Worry You


After 16 seasons of drama, Grey’s Anatomy might finally be coming to an end. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith Grey on the long-running hospital drama, hinted that it might be time to say goodbye to her onscreen alter ego once and for all.

“I’m clearly not prepared right now to make any kind of formal announcement about what my future is on the show, but I am really feeling like we have told the majority of the stories we can tell,” she said. “It’s about time that I mix it up. I’m definitely looking for a change.”

Pompeo’s current contract, which she signed in January, is set to expire after season 16. Once and if she does hang up her scrubs for good, Pompeo has said that she’s interested in making the leap to directing. “I’d love to direct a pilot. I really like producing, that’s really challenging for me,” she told Deadline last January. “I think I’ve had an amazing training. I’ve had a master class in producing these last 14 years. I know every aspect of making a television show. Producing and directing is where I’m challenged and where I’m learning. It’s more interesting to me because it’s a skill I haven’t mastered yet.”

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But before Pompeo eventually does move behind the camera, there are certain issues at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital that still need to be resolved. And who better to resolve them than Grey’s Anatomy‘s creator Shonda Rhimes? According to Entertainment Weekly, Rhimes plans on writing the final episode herself. “I have written the end of the show at least six times,” Rhimes told EW. “But we just don’t end. Every time I thought, This is how the show should end, we’ve gone past those moments, so I’ve stopped trying. I have no idea now.”

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Ellen Pompeo Explains How 'Grey's Anatomy' Characters' Fates Are Decided


Onscreen, nobody does karma like Shonda Rhimes, and apparently, this extends off set as well. This week, Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo sat down with Entertainment Tonight to talk about the departures of actors Sarah Drew and Jessica Capshaw from the show. In the interview, she also spilled some interesting details about how the writers decide who to kill off and how. “You only get killed off when your behavior is bad,” Pompeo told ET. “If you’re a nice actor, you die nice.”

Knowing this, it’s pretty easy to make some deductions about certain members of the Grey’s Anatomy cast. Rhimes has killed off 15 major characters on the show so far. It’s not clear what exactly counts as “dying nice,” so we’ll separate the deaths into three distinct categories: Good, Neutral, and Awful. (However, take all these with a grain of salt; they’re just our opinions about these deaths. For all we know, the actors who died “Awful” deaths on the show might’ve been awesome on set.)

Of the Good deaths, we have Ellis Grey (Kate Burton), who, in death, saves Meredith’s life as she wakes her up from the afterlife; Adele Webber (Loretta Devine), who dies offscreen and gets mourned by Richard and Meredith at Bailey’s wedding; Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh), who dies with everyone acknowledging that she and Mark Sloan were meant to be together (ignore the plane crash); and Mark Sloan (Eric Dane), who got to say his goodbyes before going into a coma.

Then we have the Neutral deaths, like Craig Thomas (William Daniels), who died during surgery; Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), who died during incompetent surgery (or, technically, when Meredith unplugged him); Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who died suddenly of a blood clot; and Henry Burton (Scott Foley), who died on Christina’s operating table.

And then there are the truly Awful deaths: Dylan Young (Kyle Chandler), who died of a bomb explosion; Reed Adamson (Nora Zehetner) and Charles Percy (Robert Baker), who died in the hospital shooting during season six; Heather Brooks (Tina Majorino), who died by electrocution; Paul Stadler (Matthew Morrison), who died from second-impact brain swelling after hitting his head on the hospital floor; and George O’Malley (T.R. Knight), who died horribly disfigured without anyone knowing it was him before it was too late. And no, we haven’t forgotten Susan Grey (Mare Winningham), who died of hiccups, but that’s because we can’t decide which category to put her in.

Rest assured, however, that Capshaw, who plays Arizona Robbins, and Drew, who plays April Kepner, were at least as well-behaved off-set as Sandra Oh, who departed the show with Dr. Cristina Yang achieving her dream of being a director of cardiothoracic surgery in Zurich. “[She] left in the most amazing way. She gave everybody so much notice. She knew 10 seasons was all she wanted to do and they don’t get much classier than Sandra Oh,” Pompeo told ET, adding that Capshaw and Drew would get similarly nice endings and would not, in fact, be killed off in any kind of disturbing manner. “Yeah, these endings aren’t tragic.”

While this is certainly a beguiling theory, the fate of one Grey’s Anatomy cast member kind of throws the whole thing off. As Deadline reported, Isaiah Washington, who played Dr. Preston Burke, left the show in June 2007 after he was accused of calling T.R. Knight, who’s gay, a homophobic slur. Far from dying, his character merely called off his wedding with Cristina Yang on the day of, and Washington later returned for a cameo during Oh’s exit episode. So make of that what you will.

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'Grey's Anatomy' Will Have a 'Groundbreaking' Transgender Storyline This Season


Season 14 of Grey’s Anatomy is one of the show’s most progressive yet. You can see this best perhaps in the episode from two weeks ago, where Casey, an intern played by out trans actor Alex Blue Davis, revealed his gender identity to his co-workers. “I’m a proud trans man, Dr. Bailey,” Casey said in the episode. “I like for people to get to know me before they find out my medical history.”

Casey’s coming out felt natural and empathetic; we watched his storyline unfold throughout the episode, and this new information just felt like another aspect of his character—not some type of shock ploy, as we see too often with LGBTQ+ depictions on screen.

And Grey’s will continue its path of nuanced transgender representation with a new storyline starring Candis Cayne, the trans actress whom you might recognize from I Am Cait, Transparent, and The Magicians. She also had a recurring role on ABC’s short-lived drama, Dirty Sexy Money, where she played a trans woman.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cayne will have a multi-episode arc this season playing a transgender person, who comes to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital for a “groundbreaking” vaginoplasty surgery. Grey’s show-runners were inspired to tell this story after reading about Hayley Anthony, a trans woman who helped Jess Ting, the director of surgery at the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai, develop an innovative method for vaginoplasty procedures.

“[The surgery] revolutionizes the making of a vagina and we thought that was a really cool story and Candis is playing a character inspired by something we read,” Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff told The Hollywood Reporter.

Cayne shared some details about her Grey’s character this afternoon with Glamour: She’s an “intelligent,” “no-nonsense” doctor named Michelle Velez who interacts closely with Jesse Williams’ and Debbie Allen’s characters. Cayne has shot two episodes so far, but she couldn’t tell us if more were in store. Like Casey, one of the most important parts about Cayne’s character is that her transgender identity isn’t a capital-T “Thing”—it’s just a part of who she is.

“I think the biggest thing I want people to take away is the reaction of my colleagues [meaning the other characters] on the show and how there was never a raised eyebrow, never a cocked head,” Cayne said. “It was, ‘This is Dr. Michelle Velez,’ and that’s it. She’s just another person in society who just happens to be transgender.”

With this role, Cayne is particularly excited about expanding the scope of trans characters on TV. “A lot has changed in 10 years, and the idea that we’re still having a dialogue and the parts and the roles are becoming deeper and more complex and more advanced, it says something for our society,” she said. “Of course we have a long way to go, but Grey’s is another great show that’s taking the steps to include everyone in their show.”

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Tonight's 'Grey's Anatomy' Episode Will Be Titled '1-800-799-7233' for This Important Reason


As longtime fans of Grey’s Anatomy know, music is almost as much a part of the show as the hospital formerly known as Seattle Grace. If you’re anything like me, you can name the song that was playing during the most emotional moments. There’s “Breathe (2 AM)” as Meredith is about to take a live grenade out of someone’s chest or when Cristina and Mer danced it out one last time to Tegan and Sara. And, of course, there’s the iconic scene set to “Chasing Cars” after Denny died in season two.

What it might take people a moment to realize, though, is that every episode title over all these years is pulled from a song. The pilot? “A Hard Day’s Night.” The aforementioned two-parter with a bomb in a body? “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” and “And I Feel Fine.” An episode just last November name checks Hamilton with “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.” But that streak ends tonight—and for a very powerful reason.

At the end of the winter finale, we were left with a cliffhanger that saw Jo’s (Camilla Luddington) abusive ex-husband (played by Glee‘s Matthew Morrison) show up at the hospital to confront her. She’s gone to enormous lengths to stay away from this dangerous man, going so far as to change her identity. Tonight’s episode will continue that story—and because of this, the original title, “Four Seasons in One Day,” has been changed to “1-800-799-7233,” the actual phone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff tweeted that the “brilliant” idea was suggested to her by actor Giacomo Gianniotti, who plays Dr. Andrew DeLuca. We’re glad he spoke up:

“Krista [Vernoff], and myself and all the writers, because it’s been such a long time coming, there have been so many conversations with domestic abuse organizations,” Luddington explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “We ended up feeling like even just the words and the dialogue that we wanted to use in several scenes, we were just particular with it, because at the end of the day, we wanted to tell this story right, and also educate people that have misconceptions about domestic abuse, who it happens to, and what it looks like. Conversations have been going on for a very, very long time in order to tell this story the right way that we felt like got the message across that we needed to get across with it.”





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Sara Ramirez Says She's Open to Returning to 'Grey's Anatomy' as Callie Torres One Day


Last May, Sara Ramirez announced she would be leaving Grey’s Anatomy for good, putting her among other departed Grey’s veterans like Sandra Oh and Katherine Heigl. After 10 years on the show, Callie Torres exited from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital during the season 12 finale, making up with her ex-wife, gaining permission to see their daughter, and moving to New York to live with her girlfriend. Although her run ended on a happy note, many fans (understandably) mourned the end of Callie’s storyline.

But now, Grey’s fanatics might have a reason for celebration…well, maybe. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ramirez said she isn’t completely opposed to Callie coming back. “When Shonda [Rhimes] and I last spoke, we agreed to keep the conversations going, and she knows I’m open to keeping those conversations going,” she said. Nevertheless, she doesn’t have any regrets about leaving when she did. When asked if she thought her Grey’s departure was the right decision, she answered, “Absolutely.”

A year and a half ago, Ramirez told EW in a statement that she was leaving the Shondaland flagship to focus on other endeavors. “I’m deeply grateful to have spent the last 10 years with my family at Grey’s Anatomy and ABC, but for now I’m taking some welcome time off,” she said at the time. And since her exit, she has remained off the small screen, working instead on advocacy, outreach, and legal issues in the LGBTQ community.

“It has been a really full year,” Ramirez said. (She came out as bisexual last October.) “There were a lot of important events that I got the opportunity to be a part of.” These included participating in an ACLU-run Austin, Texas rally against anti-trans legislation, speaking about intersectionality at the Equality March in D.C., and accepting a Trailblazer Award from the LGBT Center in New York.

After such a monumental year, Ramirez made her television return on Madam Secretary on Sunday, where she debuted a new character, Kat Sandoval, who is a political strategist that took time off until she returned to the State Department. She hasn’t given any more intel on Callie’s potential return, but if Cristina, Izzie, and George’s post-exit “cameos” were anything to go by, there’s a possibility we might see Callie a lot sooner than we expect.

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