{"id":300522,"date":"2026-05-20T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300522\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:13:08","slug":"greys-anatomy-spinoff-set-in-texas-coming-to-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300522\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey&#8217;s Anatomy Spinoff Set in Texas Coming to ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling the Plug on McDreamy<\/p>\n<p>After Rhimes cryptically admitted on the Nightly Show With \u00a0Larry Wilmore in 2015 that she had killed a character in the Shondaverse because she didn&#8217;t like the actor, speculation swirled that the corpse was Dempsey&#8217;s Derek, who had long since chosen to love Meredith when he was devastatingly killed off at the end of season 11.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for his diagnosis, Dempsey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/725815\/patrick-dempsey-thinks-shonda-rhimes-was-being-provocative-when-asked-about-killing-off-characters-actors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told EW<\/a> that Rhimes &#8220;loves being provocative and that&#8217;s fine for who she is.&#8221; Calling her &#8220;an amazing woman who&#8217;s incredibly productive,&#8221; he added, &#8220;I think she knows how to deal with the media and what she needs to say to get the response that she&#8217;s looking for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Per How to Save a Life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1302733\/the-alleged-truth-behind-patrick-dempseys-exit-from-greys-anatomy-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tensions were high<\/a> between Dempsey, Rhimes and cast members who, according to former executive producer James D. Parriott, &#8220;had all sorts of PTSD with him.&#8221; But by then, Parriott said, Dempsey &#8220;was just done with the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo &#8220;would get angry that he wasn&#8217;t working as much,&#8221; former executive producer Jeannine Renshaw said, per Rice&#8217;s book. &#8220;She was very big on having things be fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Any alleged wounds were salved enough to welcome Dempsey back to be in comatose Meredith&#8217;s dream in season 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulling the Plug on McDreamy After Rhimes cryptically admitted on the Nightly Show With \u00a0Larry Wilmore in 2015&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-300522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}