https://deadline.com/2020/03/greys-anatomy-shuts-down-production-coronavirus-outbreak-1202881956/

“This decision was made to ensure the health and safety of the whole cast and crew and the safety of our loved ones outside of work, and it was made in accordance with Mayor Garcetti’s suggestion that we not gather in groups of more than 50,” said showrunner Krista Vernoff and fellow executive producers Debbie Allen and James D. Parriott in a statement to cast and crew. Grey's Anatomy wrapped production today on Episode 21 of the 25-episode 16th season.

Ellen Pompeo shares an appreciation for health care workers amid coronavirus scare (https://etcanada.com/news/608504/greys-anatomy-star-ellen-pompeo-shares-appreciation-for-health-care-workers-amid-coronavirus-scare/)

“This is my nurses and doctors and all health care workers appreciation post,” the Grey's Anatomy star said Friday in an Instagram video. “Many of us have the privilege to self-quarantine and isolate and try to stay healthy and none of you have that privilege. You all have to be on the front lines of this thing and what is certainly bad now, will most definitely get worse in the next couple of weeks.”

Grey's Anatomy, The Good Doctor and Station 19 are donating their medical supplies to fight coronavirus (https://www.eonline.com/news/1132478/fox-s-the-resident-donates-medical-supplies-to-local-hospital-in-fight-against-coronavirus)

The three ABC medical-themed dramas are joining The Resident (https://www.primetimer.com/item/The-Resident-donates-items-to-an-Atlanta-hospital-after-coronavirus-shut-down-production-BRS4XA) in contributing their medical supplies to help in the fight against coronavirus. Station 19 and Grey's donated their N95 masks to local fire departments, while The Good Doctorplans to donate supplies to locals in Vancouver. "At Station 19, we were lucky enough to have about 300 of the coveted N95 masks which we donated to our local fire station," Grey's and Station 19 showrunner and executive producer Krista Vernoff told E! News in a statement. "They were tremendously grateful. At Grey's Anatomy, we have a backstock of gowns and gloves which we are donating as well. We are all overwhelmed with gratitude for our healthcare workers during this incredibly difficult time, and in addition to these donations, we are doing our part to help them by staying home."

i wonder if they will be able to finish the season

i wonder if they will be able to finish the season

Grey's Anatomy will not resume production on Season 16, will air its season finale early on April 9 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greys-anatomy-wont-resume-production-season-16-1287094)

ABC announced today that due to the coronavirus shutdown, Grey's Anatomy's 16th season will be cut short to the 21 episodes that have been filmed. Season 16 was originally scheduled to have 25 episodes.

Oh yes, I read that since I last posted. That's a shame, huh?

ABC moving Station 19 into the Grey's Anatomy timeslot (=https://deadline.com/2020/04/station-19-abc-moves-to-greys-anatomy-slot-1202904752/)

Starting April 16, Station 19 will take over Grey's 9 p.m. Thursday timeslot. This comes after Grey's had to cut its season short due to the coronavirus shutdown.

Grey's Anatomy boss: It's "dumb luck" we had an episode that could serve as the finale for this shortened season (https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/greys-anatomy-season-16-finale-coronavirus-interview-spoilers-1234576162/)

Grey's was only able to film 21 of its 25 Season 16 episodes before the coronavirus shutdown a month ago. The early season finale aired on Thursday night. "We were so lucky that we happened to have a perfect season finale episode in the can when it became clear that we had to shut down," says showrunner Krista Vernoff. "It was just dumb luck. We wrote this episode and I said to the writers, 'You guys, this is like a season finale. Where were we going to go from here?' And so we got lucky. I don’t know yet how we’re going to use what we had planned for the last four episodes. I’m going to gather the writers in about four weeks, and we’re going to start talking about Season 17. I imagine we will use some of what we had planned, and I imagine that we’ll have had a break, and a whole bunch of sleep, and a whole bunch of time in our houses to think. And we may come up with some different ways to tell some of these stories."

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Grey's Anatomy never considered killing off Alex Karev (https://tvline.com/2020/04/09/greys-anatomy-alex-death-storyline-justin-chambers/): "At the end of the day, there were three choices," says showrunner Krista Vernoff. “Kill Alex off camera; have Alex be alive and in Seattle — and still married to Jo — and we just never see him; or (reunite him) with Izzie.”
James Pickens Jr. on the season finale (https://ew.com/tv/greys-anatomy-james-pickens-jr-season-16-finale-richard-diagnosis/): "They did give me a heads-up that they had some ideas in terms of my character, and the direction it was going to take"


Ellen Pompeo has a newfound appreciation of early Grey's Anatomy, says cast members weren't given scripts for Alex Karev's farewell (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ellen-pompeo-greys-anatomy-interview-1234577293/)

"It was beautifully done," Pompeo says of the goodbye episode to Karev, in a wide-ranging interview with Variety. "The writers did a fantastic job. We didn’t get to read that script. We all filmed our parts not having read it. We did not know because they wanted to be very confidential about that story line, and they didn’t want it to leak or get out. We all just read our parts on the day when we showed up. Debbie Allen directed it and she said, 'You’re going to be doing this.' I have to say, when I watch that episode and I see those early days of the show, I typically don’t watch the show. It’s too much. I film it, I live it, I’m too critical of myself. The show back then was just so, so, so, so good. I wish we had an appreciation for it then about how good it was. I don’t think we did, I don’t think any of us did. There was too much **** going on. It was too big, it was too hot, it was too fast and there was just so much going on in the beginning. It was more attention and more work than any of us had ever experienced or done in our life."