It is official…
Grey’s Anatomy is returning this year.
Weeks after being pulled from ABC’s fall schedule, the community introduced earlier at this time that the beloved medical cleaning soap will return Thursday, November 12.
What’s extra, the premiere shall be a two-hour affair, which is much-needed when you think about that Grey’s Anatomy Season 16 was lower brief and concluded method sooner than initially deliberate.
To have fun the excellent news, ABC dropped a poster, in addition to a teaser promo.
The sequence been identified for its Meredith-centric posters over time, and we’re comfortable to report that Ellen Pompeo’s beloved alter ego is the main target of the important thing artwork.
“Generally … all of us want saving,” reads the tagline of the poster.
Meredith appears glum within the photograph, and on condition that the latest season wrapped along with her questioning her emotions for her ex-boyfriend, DeLuca, whereas rising nearer to Cormac Hayes, the Irish hunk Cristina despatched her method, Meredith might be going to be caught in a love triangle.
Nevertheless, the tagline may additionally trace on the international pandemic that shut the present down within the first place.
Showrunner, Krista Vernoff has confirmed the present shall be addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’re not shocked.
How may a medical drama skip it?
“We will handle this pandemic for certain,” Vernoff defined in an Emmys panel that was launched earlier this summer time.
“There isn’t any approach to be a long-running medical present and never do the medical story of our lifetimes.”
“The docs are available in, and we’re the primary folks they’re speaking to about a lot of these experiences they’re having,” she teased.
“They’re actually shaking and making an attempt to not cry, they’re pale they usually’re speaking about it as warfare — a warfare that they weren’t educated for.”
“And that’s been one in all our large conversations about [Kevin McKidd’s] Owen [who served in the Army], that he’s really educated for this in a method that a lot of the different docs aren’t.”
“I really feel like our present has a possibility and a duty to inform a few of these tales,” Vernoff continued.
As for the promo, it confirmed the present is returning to Thursdays, in order that’s a optimistic.
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Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.