LOS ANGELES – Lengthy-running medical drama Gray’s Anatomy will return for a nineteenth season although its star Ellen Pompeo had lately declared that “it ought to finish”.
Pompeo, 52, has performed the present’s foremost character, Meredith Gray, because it first aired in 2005, and can proceed to take action within the upcoming season. The position has reportedly made her one of many highest-paid actresses in American tv, in keeping with leisure commerce journal, The Hollywood Reporter.
Within the newest season, she will probably be joined by Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr, the one different members of the unique solid nonetheless engaged on the collection. They play Miranda Bailey and Richard Webber, Gray’s fellow docs within the present’s fictional Seattle hospital setting.
In an interview with information outlet Insider in mid-December, Pompeo had stated: “I have been making an attempt to concentrate on convincing everyone that it ought to finish.
“I really feel like I am the tremendous naive one who retains saying, ‘However what is the story going to be, what story are we going to inform? And everybody’s like, ‘Who cares, Ellen? It makes a gazillion {dollars}.'”
The mom of three, who’s married to music producer Chris Ivery, informed Leisure Tonight in September final 12 months that she had been “making an attempt to get away (from the present) for years”.
Regardless of Pompeo’s sentiments, viewers have continued to comply with avidly the lives of Gray’s Anatomy’s fictional surgeons via catastrophes and romantic entanglements.
In an announcement concerning the renewal of the collection, Ms Dana Walden, chairman of leisure at Walt Disney Tv, known as Gray’s Anatomy a “true phenomenon, beloved by audiences around the globe”.
Nonetheless, it’s unclear if Season 19 would be the final for the medical drama created by celebrity producer Shonda Rhimes, who most lately produced the favored Netflix interval collection Bridgerton.