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EXCLUSIVE: ABC‘s biggest 2026-2027 pickup news is coming a week aft nan web unveiled its autumn schedule past Tuesday: Grey’s Anatomy is getting a caller spinoff co-created by nan original series’ creator/executive shaper Shonda Rhimes.
ABC has fixed a straight-to-series bid to nan untitled aesculapian drama, co-created, written and executive produced by Rhimes and Grey’s Anatomy showrunner/executive shaper Meg Marinis, from Shondaland and 20th Television. Grey’s Anatomy star/executive prdoducer Ellen Pompeo besides is executive producing nan caller offshoot, which will premiere successful midseason 2027.
This marks nan 4th bid successful nan Grey’s Anatomy franchise aft nan mothership and spinoffs Private Practice and Station 19, and nan first that is not group connected nan West Coast, aliases successful a large city. It is described arsenic an edgy play astir a squad astatine a agrarian West Texas aesculapian halfway — nan past chance for attraction earlier miles of nowhere.
This besides would beryllium nan first Grey’s offshoot that is not spinning disconnected a bid regular characteristic from nan mothership nan measurement Kate Walsh’s Addison headlined Private Practice and Jason George’s Ben led Station 19.
“I americium incredibly excited to grow nan Grey’s Anatomy universe,” Marinis said. “This opportunity will bring caller characters and stories to life that will embody nan aforesaid heart, emotion and relationship audiences person loved from Grey’s for much than 2 decades — each group successful my location authorities of Texas. I americium truthful grateful to Shonda Rhimes for creating this move world and consciousness truthful fortunate that I get to beryllium a portion of it.”
While nan spinoff will beryllium built astir a caller group of doctors, it will apt beryllium connected to nan world of Grey’s Anatomy via 1 aliases much characters, I hear.
Rhimes and Betsy Beers executive nutrient nan caller bid pinch Marinis and Pompeo, who besides exec produced Station 19 pinch Rhimes and Beers. Shondaland and 20th Television are nan studios. It has not been wished whether Marinis will service arsenic showrunner crossed some Grey’s bid but that is doable — her predecessor Krista Vernoff ran some nan mothership and Station 19.
The size of nan bid for nan untitled spinoff is TBD. It will astir apt beryllium successful statement pinch caller ABC midseason entries like R.J. Decker and the Scrubs reboot, which some launched pinch nine-episode first installments.
As Deadline has reported, nan bid for Grey’s Anatomy‘s upcoming 23rd play already was expected to beryllium trimmed for fund considerations alongside different ABC scripted series aft nan web opted to summation its scripted slate for a 2nd consecutive twelvemonth by adding a caller series, The Rookie: North, while renewing each existing ones.
Grey’s Anatomy and its spinoff would apt stock a clip period, which requires limited-run orders for some — nan mothership successful nan fall, followed by nan spinoff successful midseason. They would beryllium airing successful Grey’s Anatomy‘s Thursday 10 p.m. slot down 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville, which are believed to person full-season orders. It is excessively early to show whether an section of nan mothership will beryllium utilized to thief group up nan offshoot nan measurement nan venerable aesculapian play did for Private Practice and Station 19.
Marinis, a Houston autochthonal and University of Texas astatine Austin graduate, has remained adjacent to nan Lone Star state. Last fall, she shared pinch Deadline that she knew a mates of nan Texas families who had mislaid children successful nan Camp Mystic calamity and, flooded by emotion, she rewrote Link’s goodbye telephone reside successful nan Season 22 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy.
With its setting, nan Grey’s spinoff draws parallels to different untiled aesculapian drama, which has been successful nan useful astatine CBS. The project, from Walker creator Anna Fricke, centers connected a headstrong, devoted doctor, played by Jared Padalecki, who, alongside his young caller protégé, run a mobile session and heal nan bodies and souls of their underserved organization successful nan aesculapian godforsaken of agrarian Texas.
The CBS play received a improvement room bid successful November is is still delivering scripts, pinch a determination connected its early expected this summer. It is unclear whether that determination would beryllium impacted by nan Grey’s Anatomy spinoff.
The caller offshoot will people nan first section successful nan Grey’s Anatomy franchise that Rhimes has written aliases co-written since nan fateful Season 11 section “How to Save a Life,” successful which Derek (Patrick Dempsey) died. In summation to nan Grey’s Anatomy pilot, she besides wrote nan backdoor aviator and first section of Private Practice, which relocated nan franchise to Los Angeles from Seattle wherever nan mothership and Station 19 are set.
Both offshoots had respectable runs connected ABC, six (Private Practice) and 7 (Station 19) seasons. The second staged predominant crossovers pinch nan mothership bid successful its last years earlier bowing retired successful May 2024.
As a spinoff from a preexisting series, nan caller ABC Grey’s offshoot falls extracurricular of Rhimes’ exclusive wide woody pinch Netflix wherever Shondaland has been based since 2017, producing celebrated bid specified arsenic nan Bridgerton franchise.
With nan Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, ABC has expanded its 3 longest-running dramas into franchises complete nan span of a twelvemonth — 9-1-1 was joined by 9-1-1: Nashville this past fall, pinch The Rookie: North joining The Rookie next season, which besides will characteristic nan 2 Grey’s Anatomy series.
Grey’s Anatomy, ABC’s longest-running primetime scripted series, ended its 22nd play connected a precocious statement pinch 5.99 cardinal full viewers successful MP+7, rising 9% complete nan anterior week and much than doubling nan show’s first Live+Same Day assemblage (+123%) pinch its champion capacity successful 3 months, since January 29, 2026. The show besides roseate week to week successful nan adults 18-49 demographic (1.26 standing vs. 1.17 rating).
Marinis began her profession arsenic a writers adjunct during Grey’s 3rd play and has spent 2 decades moving her measurement from PA and aesculapian interrogator to executive shaper and showrunner.
