Gray’s Anatomy‘s twenty first season is airing on the 2025 TV schedule, and through the years, audiences have fallen in love with so many medical doctors, sufferers and first responders who’ve come into the hospital. A lot so, actually, that it’s spawned two profitable spinoffs. Shonda Rhimes just lately revealed she had concepts for loads of different Gray’s spinoffs, and I actually want one particularly had come to fruition.
Shonda Rhimes confirmed that the Kate Walsh-led Personal Follow and firefighter-centric Station 19 (each accessible to stream with a Hulu subscription) weren’t the one reveals she’s considered through the years to proceed sure characters’ tales outdoors the hospital. When requested about what different collection she’d conjured up, Rhimes instructed EW:
On Gray’s, there have been a bunch. I felt like we might have performed Chicago Anatomy, Boston. We might have performed that. It simply did not attraction to me to rebuild the identical world. After which we thought of loads of issues.
A Boston spinoff positively would have made sense, contemplating all of the characters who dwell there and work on the Fox Basis (hey, Japril!). Meredith Gray herself relocated to Boston for her daughter to enroll in a gifted program. In Chicago, we might have saved up with Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) and the employees on the metropolis’s Coronary heart Middle.
I personally thought they have been organising a by-product in Minnesota when Scott Speedman returned to the collection, and David Hamilton (Peter Gallagher) established The Gray Middle for Meredith’s analysis. I additionally cherished E.R. Fightmaster within the recurring position of Kai Bartley. However it was one other of Shonda Rhimes’ spinoff concepts that actually piqued my curiosity. She continued:
I assumed that there could possibly be a by-product with Amelia [Caterina Scorsone] that was the Shepherd sisters. They’re all medical doctors. It might have been a Shepherd sisters present, which might’ve been very attention-grabbing.
That’s simply merely a stroke of brilliance. We’ve been launched to all three of Derek and Amelia Shepherd’s sisters on Gray’s Anatomy through the years, in addition to the truth that Amelia is the black sheep of the household. That turbulent dynamic and the truth that all of them work within the medical area is such premise, to not point out the wonderful actors who’ve performed these girls.
Embeth Davidtz appeared on Seasons 3 and 15 as OB/GYN Nancy; Neve Campbell guest-starred for 2 episodes of Season 9 as Liz (additionally an M.D.); and Amy Acker made her sole look in Season 15 as psychiatrist Kathleen. If nothing else, this spinoff would at the least put the “Who’s Lucas’ mother?” thriller to mattress.
Sadly, that concept — and apparently many others — went unrealized. For some time, it regarded like ABC is perhaps organising a police-based collection to rival the One Chicago reveals on NBC with its personal medical, fireplace and P.D. trilogy. Then, in 2021, an ABC exec obtained followers excited when he spoke of “the subsequent section of Gray’s Anatomy,” solely to backpedal on that remark and demand that no new spinoff was within the works.
We haven’t had a Gray’s Anatomy spinoff since Station 19, however with that and Personal Follow being embraced a lot by followers, I’d say so long as Gray’s is on the air, there’s at all times the potential for extra in that universe. For now, although, tune in to new episodes of Gray’s Anatomy at 10 p.m. ET Thursdays on ABC and streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.