{"id":493694,"date":"2026-05-20T06:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:54:22","slug":"greys-anatomy-texas-spinoff-ordered-by-abc-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493694\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Texas Spinoff Ordered By ABC — Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: ABC<\/a>\u2018s biggest 2026-2027 pickup news is coming a week after the network unveiled its fall schedule<\/a> last Tuesday: Grey\u2019s Anatomy is getting a new spinoff co-created by the original series\u2019 creator\/executive producer Shonda Rhimes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tABC has given a straight-to-series order to the untitled medical drama, co-created, written and executive produced by Rhimes and Grey\u2019s Anatomy showrunner\/executive producer Meg Marinis<\/a>, from Shondaland and 20th Television. Grey\u2019s Anatomy star\/executive prdoducer Ellen Pompeo<\/a> also is executive producing the new offshoot, which will premiere in midseason 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks the fourth series in the Grey\u2019s Anatomy franchise after the mothership and spinoffs Private Practice and Station 19, and the first that is not set on the West Coast, or in a big city. It is described as an edgy drama about a team at a rural West Texas medical center \u2014 the last chance for care before miles of nowhere.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis also would be the first Grey\u2019s offshoot that is not spinning off a series regular character from the mothership the way Kate Walsh\u2019s Addison headlined Private Practice and Jason George\u2019s Ben led Station 19. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am incredibly excited to expand the Grey\u2019s Anatomy universe,\u201d Marinis said. \u201cThis opportunity will bring new characters and stories to life that will embody the same heart, emotion and connection audiences have loved from Grey\u2019s for more than two decades \u2014 all set in my home state of Texas. I am so grateful to Shonda Rhimes for creating this dynamic world and feel so fortunate that I get to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the spinoff will be built around a new group of doctors, it will likely be connected to the world of Grey\u2019s Anatomy via one or more characters, possibly Debbie Allen\u2019s Catherine Fox, I hear.<\/p>\n

\n\tRhimes and Betsy Beers executive produce the new series with Marinis and Pompeo, who also exec produced Station 19 with Rhimes and Beers. Shondaland and 20th Television are the studios. It has not been determined whether Marinis will serve as showrunner across both Grey\u2019s series but that is doable \u2014 her predecessor Krista Vernoff ran both the mothership and Station 19. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe size of the order for the untitled spinoff is TBD. It will probably be in line with recent ABC midseason entries like R.J. Decker and the Scrubs reboot, which both launched with nine-episode first installments.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Deadline has reported<\/a>, the order for Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2018s upcoming 23rd season already was expected to be trimmed for budget considerations alongside other ABC scripted series<\/a> after the network opted to increase its scripted slate for a second consecutive year by adding a new series, The Rookie: North<\/a>, while renewing all existing ones. (Grey\u2019s produced 18 episodes in each of the last two seasons.)<\/p>\n

\n\tGrey\u2019s Anatomy and its spinoff would likely share a time period, which requires limited-run orders for both \u2014 the mothership in the fall, followed by the spinoff in midseason. They would be airing in Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2018s Thursday 10 p.m. slot behind 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville, which are believed to have full-season orders. It is too early to tell whether an episode of the mothership will be used to help set up the offshoot the way the venerable medical drama did for Private Practice and Station 19.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarinis, a Houston native and University of Texas at Austin graduate, has remained close to the Lone Star state. Last fall, she shared with Deadline<\/a> that she knew a couple of the Texas families who had lost children in the Camp Mystic tragedy and, overcome by emotion, she rewrote Link\u2019s goodbye call speech in the Season 22 premiere of Grey\u2019s Anatomy. <\/p>\n

\n\tWith its setting, the Grey\u2019s spinoff draws parallels to another untiled medical drama, which has been in the works at CBS<\/a>. The project, from Walker creator Anna Fricke, centers on a headstrong, devoted doctor, played by Jared Padalecki, who, alongside his young new prot\u00e9g\u00e9, operate a mobile clinic and heal the bodies and souls of their underserved community in the medical desert of rural Texas.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe CBS drama received a development room order in November is is still delivering scripts, with a decision on its future expected this summer. It is unclear whether that decision would be impacted by the Grey\u2019s Anatomy spinoff. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe new offshoot will mark the first episode in the Grey\u2019s Anatomy franchise that Rhimes has written or co-written since the fateful Season 11 episode \u201cHow to Save a Life,\u201d in which Derek (Patrick Dempsey) died. In addition to the Grey\u2019s Anatomy pilot, she also wrote the backdoor pilot and first episode of Private Practice, which relocated the franchise to Los Angeles from Seattle where the mothership and Station 19 are set.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth offshoots had respectable runs on ABC, six (Private Practice) and seven (Station 19) seasons. The latter staged frequent crossovers with the mothership series in its final years before bowing out in May 2024.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Station<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney\/ABC<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a spinoff from a preexisting series, the new ABC Grey\u2019s offshoot falls outside of Rhimes\u2019 exclusive overall deal with Netflix where Shondaland has been based since 2017, producing popular series such as the Bridgerton franchise. <\/p>\n

\n\tWith the Grey\u2019s Anatomy spinoff, ABC has expanded its three longest-running dramas into franchises over the span of a year \u2014 9-1-1 was joined by 9-1-1: Nashville this past fall, with The Rookie: North joining The Rookie next season, which also will feature the two Grey\u2019s Anatomy series. <\/p>\n

\n\tGrey\u2019s Anatomy, ABC\u2019s longest-running primetime scripted series, ended its 22nd season on a high note with 5.99 million total viewers in MP+7, rising 9% over the prior week and more than doubling the show\u2019s initial Live+Same Day audience (+123%) with its best performance in three months, since January 29, 2026. The show also rose week to week in the adults 18-49 demographic (1.26 rating vs. 1.17 rating).<\/p>\n

\n\tMarinis began her career as a writers assistant during Grey\u2019s third season and has spent two decades working her way from PA and medical researcher to executive producer and showrunner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ABC\u2018s biggest 2026-2027 pickup news is coming a week after the network unveiled its fall schedule last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[14350,18,189033,117,40211,19,17,203421,44729,128],"class_list":["post-493694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-eire","tag-ellen-pompeo","tag-entertainment","tag-greys-anatomy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meg-marinis","tag-shonda-rhimes","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116605594461795652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}