Deadline first reported<\/a>. It marks a\u00a0major shift for the series, which has spent more than 20 years rooted in Seattle and other West Coast settings.<\/p>\nThe untitled spinoff will center on a new group of doctors and is described as an edgy drama about a team at a rural West Texas medical center, \u201cthe last chance for care before miles of nowhere.\u201d The series will be co-created by \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d creator and executive producer\u00a0Shonda Rhimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This new project marks the fourth series in the \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d franchise, including the spinoffs like \u201cPrivate Practice\u201d and \u201cStation 19.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
ABC has given the series a straight-to-series order, meaning a full-season commitment without filming a pilot first. The drama comes from\u00a0Rhimes and \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d showrunner Meg Marinis and is produced by Shondaland and 20th Television. Rhimes, Marinis, Betsy Beers and \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d star Ellen Pompeo \u2014 best known for playing Meredith Grey\u00a0\u2014 will executive produce. The series is set to premiere in the 2026-27 season during the 2027\u00a0midseason lineup.<\/p>\n
The new series has Texas roots. Marinis is a Houston native and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She started her career as a writer\u2019s assistant during \u201cGrey\u2019s\u201d third season and spent two decades working her way from production assistant and medical researcher to executive producer and\u00a0showrunner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am incredibly excited to expand the Grey\u2019s Anatomy universe,\u201d Marinis said. \u201cThis opportunity will bring new characters and stories to life that will embody the same heart, emotion and connection audiences have loved from Grey\u2019s for more than two decades\u00a0\u2014 all set in my home state of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cI am so grateful to\u00a0Shonda Rhimes for creating this dynamic world and feel so fortunate that I get to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview with Deadline last fall<\/a>, Marinis said she knew several Texas families who lost children in the Camp Mystic tragedy. She said the losses affected her emotionally and led her to rewrite Link\u2019s goodbye call speech for the \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d Season 22 premiere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas is about to become the newest home of the \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d universe. ABC has officially ordered a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94711,27,29,28,3504],"class_list":["post-302982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-auddev","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-txshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302982","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=302982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}