Grey's Anatomy' Season 17: Everything We Know About the Show's Return

                                    

Grey's Anatomy' Season 17: Everything We Know About the Show's Return

Ellen Pompeo teases that the upcoming season of Grey's may also be the excellent yet. Every time a Grey's Anatomy season comes to an end, followers can not assist however get fearful and marvel ... will the subsequent season truly be the closing one?

While we do not understand the actual day Meredith Grey Ellen Pompeo will grasp up her scrubs for good, we do be aware of that Ellen has formally renewed her contract via 2020, which ability Grey's Anatomy is right here to remain for at least one greater season.

When is Grey's Anatomy coming lower back for season 17?

We have a date! ABC these days announced that Grey's Anatomy will be returning with a two-hour season 17 premiere episode on Thursday, November 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

Will Ellen Pompeo nonetheless be on the show?

Referencing the aforementioned contract, the quick reply is yes. Good thing, due to the fact ABC's leisure chief Kerry Burke made it clear that Grey's Anatomy may not proceed besides the show's lead actress.

"It will be up to them (Ellen and Shonda Rhimes) whether or not or now not they desire to proceed the show," she advised the Television Critics Association.

Shortly earlier than the manufacturing of season 17 began, Ellen published when she thinks it's going to be time to grasp up her scrubs. "But genuinely I suppose to dip out faster as a substitute than later, at this point, having carried out what we have done, to depart when the exhibit is nevertheless on top, is without a doubt a goal. I'm no longer making an attempt to remain on the exhibit forever. No way. The fact is, if I get too aggravated and I'm no longer grateful there, I must no longer be there," she advised Dax Shepard throughout a recording of Armchair Expert podcast.

                                

Grey's Anatomy' Season 17: Everything We Know About the Show's Return

Is the complete forged returning for season 17?

So far, all of the lead characters are set to return — Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti), Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.), Dr. Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams), Dr. Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary), Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), Dr. Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington), Dr. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver), Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), and Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone).

Following the information that Jesse Williams signed on to superstar in Hulu's new sequence Little Fires Everywhere, followers feared that the actor used to be leaving Grey's. He rapidly verified that he inked a deal for season 17 and noted that showrunner Krista Vernoff will "figure out approaches to make all of it work," in accordance to TV Line.

What will season 17 be about?

Grey's plans to imitate existence in the 12 months ahead. "We’re going to tackle this pandemic for sure," the showrunner stated throughout a latest Television Academy panel. "There’s no way to be a long-running scientific exhibit and now not do the scientific story of our lifetimes."

While the specifics are unknown, Giacomo, who performs DeLuca on the show, validated that the new episodes will dive into the coronary heart of the pandemic. "We’re going to begin the season about a month and a 1/2 [into] full COVID. It’s going to take vicinity a little beyond the place we left off in the final season … We’re no longer selecting up proper the place we left off," he informed Entertainment Tonight.

The season will kick off with a bang: "I’ll say the pilot episode to this season — girl, preserve on. What no person thinks we can proceed to do, we have done. Hold on. That’s all we’re going to say about that," Ellen gushed to Variety.

Along with the news-driven storyline, the exhibit will nonetheless seize the interpersonal drama that followers love. In fact, season 17 will tell the memories that they at first deliberate to inform closing season earlier than manufacturing used to be shut down. "In even the first-rate of times, a tv writer's major job is to recognize how to pivot,"the showrunner advised TVLine. "We are now not working to defend testimonies we had [planned] for the cease of season sixteen That said, you will get to see some of the instantaneous moments from the place we left off."

The forged Ellen, specifically  is excited for followers to see what they've been working on. During an interview with Variety, Ellen went so some distance as to say that season 17 is "probably going to be one of our quality seasons ever."

Here's the place matters get complicated. Deadline reviews that Camilla, Kevin, and Kim currently signed three-year contracts, which ability they're dedicated thru season 19. Chandra additionally says she'll stick with Grey's till the very end: "In my mind, Bailey is there till the doorways close, till the health facility burns down, till the closing component takes place on Grey’s Anatomy."

This looks promising, without for that reality that Ellen these days stated that this season should be the show's last. "We don’t recognize when the exhibit is genuinely ending yet," she advised Variety. "But the fact is, this yr ought to be it."

On an episode of Late Night with James Corden remaining year, Ellen teased that she's throwing round thoughts with Krista and Shonda about the sequence finale. "Well, I can’t clearly say what I think, due to the fact if we simply do what I favor to do, that would provide it away,” she said.

Her closing dream: bringing lower back the complete authentic forged (yep, even McDreamy). She doubts that it would show up due to the fact "some of them have been killed on the show," however this is hoping!

Either way, the solid is aware of that Grey's followers might not be completely happy with the ending.

"The ending, the remaining episode, things so much," she continued. "Are you kidding me? And the followers are in no way going to be pleased no rely what. Sopranos, Game of Thrones, they’re pissed no depend what you do. So, there’s a lot of strain on that closing episode."