Shonda Rhimes

Grey's Anatomy cr eator Shona Rhimes. Shona Rhimes is talked to Entertainment Weekly about the shocking conclusion to Grey's Anatomy, including whether some characters will survive or not. The summer can be over fast enough! From Entertainment Weekly : Rumors have been swirling all year that Katherine and TR wanted off the show. The season ends with both their characters' lives hanging in the balance. Purely coincidental? SHONDA RHIMES: I don't think there are any coincidences. I think Katherine's stated publicly that she's happy to stay. I think that there have been lots of rumors about TR, but TR's never said anything. Take from ... Read Full Story

Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes is not giving any clues away during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. If you tuned in to the two hour season finale of Grey's Anatomy then you saw the cliffhanger showing that doctors Izzy Stevens and George O'Malley may be dead next season.  Read the episode re-cap warning spoiler alert. “Grey’s Anatomy” ended Thursday night with two characters’ lives in jeopardy. Viewers will have to wait until next season to see if Izzie Stevens and George O’Malley are alive. Izzie, who suffered a brain tumor this season, underwent a risky surgery that threatened to take away her memory. ... Read Full Story

Yes indeed, Denny’s coming back. The extended return of Izzie’s late fiancé drew cries of protest from many Grey’s Anatomy fans last fall, but he’s an important part of the story that creator Shonda Rhimes wants to tell. “We’re heading on a journey,” Rhimes says. Viewers “are in the middle and don’t have a map, so they can feel lost. But I know where we’re going. For me, it’s about looking at the larger picture.” Despite a few hairpin turns, Rhimes has shown good directional sense operating two series, the fifth-season drama Grey’s (ABC, tonight, 9 ET/PT) — which boasts some of TV’s most ... Read Full Story

Medical formula … (from left) Chris Lowell, KaDee Strickland, Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, Audra McDonald, Kate Walsh, Paul Adelstein and Taye Diggs. When a show is as successful as Grey’s Anatomy (it averaged 16.1 million viewers in its fourth season on America’s ABC network), you expect pressure to produce a spin-off. But Betsy Beers, who is executive producer of the show with creator and writer Shonda Rhimes, denies this was the case. “The network [ABC] and the studio [Disney ABC] were both really chilled about it and were happy for us to focus all our energy on Grey’s Anatomy ,” she says. So what ... Read Full Story

I really like love Grey’s Anatomy. I live blogged the season finale last night and could spend the next 3 months writing about what you think will happen next season. Instead EW spoke to Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey’s Anatomy, hopefully can fill us in. Rumors have been swirling all year that Katherine and TR wanted off the show. The season ends with both their characters’ lives hanging in the balance. Purely coincidental? SHONDA RHIMES: I don’t think there are any coincidences. I think Katherine’s stated publicly that she’s happy to stay. I think that there have been lots of rumors about TR, ... Read Full Story