When Gray’s Anatomy resumes its twenty first season on the 2025 TV schedule, we’ll lastly decide up the place the (presumably already spoiled) cliffhanger left off. We’ve received Jo Wilson and Lucas Adams concerned in a hostage scenario, whereas Owen Hunt and Teddy Altman are at odds once more because of the return of Sophia Bush’s Dr. Cass Beckman. The writers hold discovering methods to keep up the present’s freshness, and in a bittersweet method, based on one government producer, there’s one nice cause it’s capable of keep relevancy, however it’s additionally form of unhappy.
The ever-changing forged of Gray’s Anatomy has performed a giant position in retaining followers invested for 20 years, whether or not that’s OGs Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. staying with the collection, unhappy goodbyes to fan favorites like Jake Borelli, or Jesse Williams making semi-frequent cameos. It’s additionally the drugs, as EP Betsy Beers defined to Collider:
I nonetheless suppose it’s a extremely enjoyable present to observe. The nice factor is, it’s a scenario the place you may convey individuals in and other people depart, and other people come again, and new individuals are available, and there’s at all times an engine for brand new personalities, new conflicts. The nice factor and the unhappy factor about drugs is it’s at all times altering, and there are at all times new circumstances. As a setting, it’s nice.
Having a bottomless nicely of wild medical circumstances is undoubtedly an exquisite situation for a TV author. Nevertheless, it is also a bit of unusual to have fun the truth that individuals will at all times get sick, and there’ll at all times be new challenges for docs (each real-life and fictional) to deal with.
Questions on how lengthy Gray’s Anatomy will final have circulated over the previous few years since collection star and EP Ellen Pompeo prompt it was time to finish. There have been additionally some price range issues that brought on the actors to cut back their episode depend, and the shift to the ten p.m. ET timeslot hasn’t been good, leading to a 17% drop in viewership from Season 20.
Betsy Beers acknowledged there have been these conversations prior to now, however they’ll simply hold at it so long as ABC permits. She mentioned:
So long as individuals wish to watch it, we’re enthusiastic about making it. Folks at all times ask, ‘Do you consider this by way of how lengthy one thing will run?’ All we like to do is figure on issues that we love or are desirous about, and that we might watch. That was form of the important thing.
Hopefully, followers will proceed to observe when Season 21 returns. Gray’s Anatomy‘s midseason premiere is ready for 10 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 6, on ABC (streaming the following day with a Hulu subscription), and as of this writing, there’s been no phrase that the delay in manufacturing would have an effect on that date. The primary 20 seasons of Gray’s are additionally among the many greatest exhibits to binge on Netflix proper now.