The beloved and long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy is getting another spin-off, and it will be set in the Lone Star State.
Shonda Rhimes, the original series’ executive producer and creator, is co-creating a new spinoff for Grey’s Anatomy with original series showrunner and executive producer Meg Marinis. Marinis grew up in Houston, attending The Kincaid School before graduating from the University of Texas.
“I am incredibly excited to expand the Grey’s Anatomy universe,” Marinis said. “This opportunity will bring new characters and stories to life that will embody the same heart, emotion and connection audiences have loved from Grey’s for more than two decades — 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.”
The show will be the long running ABC drama’s third spinoff, following Station 19. It is set in rural West Texas, following a remote hospital that is “the last chance for care before miles of nowhere,” according to the series logline.
The untitled medical drama received a straight-to-series order from ABC. The new offshoot, which will debut midseason 2027, is also executive-produced by Grey’s Anatomy star and executive producer Ellen Pompeo. Rhimes and Marinis are co-writing the new spin-off.
If you heard the news that a medical drama was coming to Texas, you may have thought, “Hey, Houston is home to one of the largest medical centers in the world, surely it will be set here.” Well, clearly you thought wrong. The news that Marinis, being from Houston, was producing seemed to make the possibility of Houston getting its own primetime drama a reality. But alas, to West Texas we go, and we can probably blame Taylor Sheridan for it.
Sheridan, with his growing roster of extremely popular Cowboy and Texas set dramas, has brought many productions to the state; it seems like the southeast isn’t getting any love. Everyone wants cowboy stuff, and now the world thinks the only way to get that is in West Texas or the DFW area (as if we don’t have cowboy culture in Houston).
Maybe if the untitled Texas set Grey’s Anatomy is successful, maybe the powers that be might look at Houston’s vast medical system to do a prestige TV Texas version of HBO’s The Pitt.