‘Gray’s Anatomy‘ Units Date For Ellen Pompeo’s Farewell Episode – Deadline

SPOILER ALERT: The story consists of particulars from the Nov. 10 Season 19 fall finale of ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy.

Gray’s Anatomy’s winter return, which has been set for Feb. 23, will characteristic the medical drama’s greatest departure, that of sequence’ lead Ellen Pompeo. A promo on the finish of tonight’s fall finale teased the episode, through which “Meredith leaves Seattle.”(You may watch it above.)

For these following Meredith’s (Pompeo) storyline this season, that gained’t be a shock since she made the choice to maneuver to Boston in final week’s episode after Zola fell in love with a faculty there and Jackson supplied Meredith a job engaged on Alzheimer’s analysis.

As Deadline revealed in August, Pompeo is scaling again her on-screen presence on Gray’s Anatomy this season to eight episodes. Her Feb. 23 farewell as a core solid member, aptly titled “I’ll Observe the Solar” and written by Gray’s Anatomy government producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff, is Episode 7. Pompeo, who’s segueing to a Hulu restricted sequence which she is starring in and government producing, is predicted to return for Gray’s Anatomy‘s Season 19 finale.

She stays an government producer and can present the voiceover narration for all episodes this season. In anticipation of Pompeo’s departure as Gray’s title character, the sequence this fall launched a brand new group of interns in its greatest solid infusion so far.

The artistic overhaul appears to be paying off, with the brand new characters receiving largely heat reception by followers, making a report twentieth season of TV’s longest-running medical drama possible. In line with sources, renewal talks haven’t began but however are anticipated to quickly. Moreover, Gray’s Anatomy studio ABC Signature should make new offers with a lot of actors on the present whose contracts are up on the finish of this season, together with the final remaking unique solid members, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr.

Like different distinguished former solid members, together with Jesse Williams (Jackson), Pompeo may proceed to make appearances on the sequence past this season, I hear. She can also proceed to do the sequence’ voiceover.

In tonight’s fall finale, Meredith introduced her departure from Gray Sloan in an e-mail. Understandably, her making the choice with out consulting Nick upset him so he wouldn’t commit when Richard requested him whether or not he can depend on him staying in Seattle. (Given the truth that Scott Speedman, who performs Nick, shouldn’t be a sequence common this season, the choice is fairly apparent.)

To make Meredith’s transfer much more everlasting, her home burned to the bottom with solely the post-it she and Derek wrote their vows on surviving.

Nonetheless, nobody was damage and Meredith wrapped her final day at Gray Sloan in excessive spirits, being toasted by all her colleagues.