September 2009 News Archive

Meredith and Derek hooked up on the very first episode of Grey's Anatomy, and through thick, thin and post-it note weddings, they've been the focal point of the show ever since.

Which is why we've left the Grey's core couple out of the poll below. MerDer is in a league of its own at this point, while the show's other romantic pairings are all relatively knew.

Since the beginning of last season, we've met Drs. Arizona Robbins and Owen Hunt, Lexie and Mark coupled up and Alex and Izzie got married. Love is in the air at Seattle Grace!

Executive Producer Krista Vernoff says the show has spent a lot of time getting people together, and now it's time to tell stories of people being together. Amen to that, we say.

But besides MerDer, whose stories are you most excited to see told in this new season and beyond? Which of the four Grey's Anatomy couples below is your favorite? Vote!

Which Grey's Anatomy couple is your favorite?

Is trouble on the horizon for Mark and Lexie on Grey's Anatomy? You knew there had to be. Here's what executive producer Krista Vernoff tells TV Guide about that couple ...

Q: Do you have any Mark/Lexie scoop for Season 6 of Grey's Anatomy? Love them!

A: I know you won't believe it, but they're going to have problems. "They've got some obstacles for sure, but some of our more emotional moments have come from them," Grey's Anatomy executive producer Krista Vernoff reports.

That doesn't mean the coupling won't survive, however.

"We've done a lot of stories about people coming together, and now we have an opportunity to tell stories about people who are together," Vernoff says.

Now that's something we doubt people can argue with.

As we learned on last week's rollercoaster Grey's Anatomy season premiere, cash-strapped Seattle Grace is getting ready to merge with its crosstown rival hospital, Mercy West.

The result will be an influx of new characters, as the series aspires to expand its roster of hot doctors and story lines as it enters what is being called a transitional sixth season.

Sarah Drew is the latest to score a recurring role as one of the new faces at the revamped SGH. The actress, who turns 29 tomorrow, will be playing a doctor named April.

The hospital merger takes place on the October 15 episode, "Invasion," when Drew and fellow Mercy West newcomers Robert Baker, Jesse Williams and Nora Zehetner arrive.

The "Invasion" of fresh faces presumably will compete with Seattle Grace regulars.

Interestingly, Sarah Drew was recently cast on Inside the Box, a new pilot developed by Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice creator Shonda Rhimes that was never picked up.

We posted a promotional photo gallery yesterday, now here are four sneak previews of Thursday's new episode of Grey's Anatomy, "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me."

In the first preview, Mark encourages an uptight Derek to go clear his head and not go chew Richard out over the proposed cutbacks at Seattle Grace. But everyone's worried ...

Follow the jump for three more clips from the episode - in which Izzie debuts her new wig and Cristina makes her debut in pediatrics with Arizona - and tell us what you think ...

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After an emotional season premiere, the gang is settling into their lives post-George.

How will that go?

Below are some promotional photos released by ABC for this Thursday's all-new episode of Grey's Anatomy, entitled "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me."

There appears to be plenty of drama, as well as some baseball being played.

Click to enlarge the photos below and tell us what you think ...

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"Good Mourning" and "Goodbye" made for a powerful re-entry into the Grey's Anatomy universe last night. For a unique take on the episode from the woman who brought it all to life, we've posted some excerpts from the show's official writers blog below.

Here's what executive producer Krista Vernoff, who's responsible for the episodes we watched last night, had to say about them. Specifically, what she thinks about ...

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George: I think the reason I don’t want to spend any time writing about these episodes is not just that I’m lazy but that it makes me sad. Watching them made me sad, writing them made me sad and now writing about them will make me sad because, as Cristina finally acknowledges 40 days after the event, “George O’Malley died." It’s heartbreaking.

I fell in love with George, like many of you did, Season One.

The first episode of Grey’s Anatomy that I got to write was the one where George is kind to Annie, the lady with the 60 lb tumor. In an attempt to comfort her about her procrastination in seeing a doctor, George talks to her about his love for Meredith and how he has yet to confess it.

And Annie says something like, “Seriously? You’re equating your love life with my record-breaking tumor?? Seriously??” I loved George O'Malley because he was doing that; because his love for Meredith was as big as that tumor; because, like Izzie, George led with his heart.   

The funeral scene: I have to admit that this is one of my very favorite scenes ever ... they came together fresh-faced kids and now one of them has cancer and one of them is dead and damn, life is freakin’ like that, y’know? Growing up is crazy hard.

Friends get sick and friends die and marriages begin and end. It’s so complicated and so beautiful and so painful and the best any of us can hope for, I think, is to have friends who will stick by us and laugh with us and cry with us and just be with us through it all.

Callie: Sara was so beautiful in every frame of these episodes. She always drops my jaw – but when she’s wailing to Mark, “... and Arizona keeps bringing me doooooooonuts,” I just loved her even more. And as for Callie, here’s the big question:

If faced with having to decide what to do with your brain-dead ex-husband’s organs, would you rise above and turn to his ex-mistress for help?

Derek and the Chief: This is a thing that won’t be going away any time soon. Derek was pretty freakin’ noble. So noble! Cause you KNOW how much he wants that job. It was a promise of the Chiefdom that brought him to Seattle from NYC to begin with. Okay, that and his love for ferry boats. Oh, and the Mark/Addison messiness but y’know, mostly, it was becoming Chief.

And right here, the job was his for the taking. And out of loyalty and friendship, he went to the Chief and warned him. So what is up with the Chief that in response, he completely shut Derek out? Pride. He’s all proud and hurt and threatened. Really, really threatened.

And people are flawed. Even the Chief, whom I adore, is deeply flawed.  

Cristina, Owen and Dr. Wyatt: How brilliant are the actors in that scene???? Seriously – how freakin’ good are all three of them? If I could hand some kind of award to Kevin McKidd and Sandra Oh and Amy Madigan today, I would. Y’know what? I just might.

When I was nominated for an Emmy and didn’t win, my best friends made me an Emmy out of tinfoil. I might do something like that – that’s how good they all are. Here’s what you don’t know ... I handed them that scene 20 MINUTES BEFORE CAMERAS ROLLED. Swear to God.

The scene was totally different. It was a funny scene until the last minute.

I had been desperate to find humor anywhere I could in these two hours and because Sandra is a pretty reliable source for comedy, I had leaned on the funny. And I got a call from the set after they rehearsed the scene. Sandra and Kevin had smart questions – and what became crystal clear to me instantly is that this storyline could not be resolved in a humorous way.

It had earned weight. Indeed, it required weight.

Follow the link for the entirety of Krista's blog ...

Below is a sampling of some of the best Grey's Anatomy quotes from last night's two-hour premiere. We've divided them into two parts, for each hour of the premiere.

Follow the link above for the full list of quotes from "Good Mourning," "Goodbye," and, if you've never been to our site, every episode in the show's six-season history.

Now here are some of the Grey's Anatomy quotes from last night that we liked most. Which was your favorite line? Thanks so much to Maddie O for help with these ...

Bailey: I am an attending. And, I am a single mother. And I lost O'Malley. And um, I just can't. I can't care anymore. Stevens is not my child. O'Malley was not my child. I have to stop treating them... I just have to stop caring so much. 'Cause I can't keep feeling... feeling like this. Not at work. I have to save the feeling for my son, who needs it. I just can't keep giving it away here. I can't. I won't. | permalink

Alex: Dude, are you crying?
Arizona: I have authority issues. Walk away Karev! | permalink

Callie: (crying) My ex husband died, he died. He actually got hit by a bus. George got hit by a bus. And now... now I have to get a new job and I'm never gonna see my friends anymore and Arizona keeps bringing me doughnuts!
Mark: Is this place for sale? It's nice.
Callie: What?
Mark: Oh, nothing. | permalink

Lexie: I was gonna clean out his locker. Give his stuff to his Mom but, I was a bad friend. To George. I was about as good a friend to him as Clara's friends, who keep sending post cards from the trip she'll never get to take. I just... I... I abandoned him completely. I... I... I just moved out and stopped talking to him. Why? Because, because he didn't think I was as hot I thought he was? Because he... he didn't love me back?
Mark: This may be bad timing but I gotta ask. What did that guy have? I mean, he wasn't much to look at. But, you and Steven's and Torres. Tell the truth. Was he... you know... hung?
Lexie: That's...
Mark: I know, I said bad timing.
Lexie: I...
Mark: But seriously, he was kind of a dorky little dude.
Lexie: Stop! Stop talking (laughing). | permalink

Meredith: You're laughing?
Alex: She's laughing.
Izzie: [laughing] George is dead! He's dead! They're about to put him in the ground and the priest is doing classic rock lyrics! And that girl, that redhead, is crying harder than his mother and she never even met him!
Cristina: You are far more twisted than I ever realized. | permalink

Lexie: [narrating] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
Mark: It isn't just death we have to grieve. It's life. It's loss. It's change.
Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.
Izzie: That's how you stay alive. When it hurts so much you can't breathe, that's how you survive.
Derek: By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won't feel this way. It won't hurt this much.
Bailey: Grief comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way.
Owen: So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty.
Meredith: The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can't control it.
Arizona: The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes.
Callie: And let it go when we can.
Meredith: The very worst part is that the minute you think you're past it, it starts all over again.
Cristina: And always, every time, it takes your breath away.
Meredith: There are five stages of grief. They look different on all of us, but there are always five.
Alex: Denial.
Derek: Anger.
Bailey: Bargaining.
Lexie: Depression.
Richard: Acceptance. | permalink

As the dust settles from last night's sixth season premiere, ABC has released a promo for next week's all-new Grey's Anatomy, "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me."

Looks like a pretty intense episode, picking up right where we left off after last night's two-hour premiere. What do you think will happen when the show returns next week?

Welcome, Grey's readers, to the 177th Grey's Anatomy Insider Caption Contest!

This week's winner is April_J. Congrats! The winning entry appears below.

Honorable mentions go out to NotThatKatherine, Rix_101 and Cheryl.

Here's this week's picture and winning caption. Thanks to all for playing ...

Lexie: Derek, what on earth are you doing?
Derek: Checking out Grey's Anatomy...

Below is perhaps the most memorable of many amazing scenes from last night's two-hour season premiere. At the funeral of Dr. George O'Malley, the foursome who had been by his side, for better or worse, since their first day at Seattle Grace reacted to his death.

Not in a way you would expect, either.

What was one of the most sorrowful moments in the show's history quickly and suddenly turned into a laugh riot, with death, cancer and wedding mockery the subjects:

Follow the jump for more great clips from "Good Mourning" and "Goodbye," including Callie the superstar flipping out at Richard, Izzie telling Amanda to go get a life, Cristina making inappropriate comments about seviche, and Lexie walking in on MerDer lovin' ...

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