Shonda Rhimes is doing it again! The creator of everyone’s favorite ABC medical drama is bringing another spinoff to the network for the upcoming 2026/2027 season.
Entertainment Weekly can confirm that ABC has given a series order to a new Grey’s Anatomy spinoff co-created by Rhimes and showrunner/executive producer Meg Marinis, from Shondaland and 20th Television. The new, untitled medical drama will also feature Grey’s Anatomy star/executive producer Ellen Pompeo as an executive producer, and is currently slated to premiere in midseason 2027.
While further details on the spinoff are currently under wraps, EW can share that it will be based in Texas, the first of the franchise’s offshoots to be based outside a major West Coast city. The series is described as “edgy drama about a team at a West Texas rural medical center — the last chance for care before miles of nowhere.”
The series will mark the fourth entry in the Grey’s Anatomy franchise after the main series and its spinoffs, Private Practice and Station 19. It will also serve as the first to be established without a series regular character from the original.
“I am incredibly excited to expand the Grey’s Anatomy universe,” Marinis said in a statement. “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.”
Rhimes and Betsy Beers executive-produce the new series with Marinis and Pompeo, who also exec-produced Station 19 with Rhimes and Beers. Shondaland and 20th Television are the studios. The move also marks the second year in a row that ABC will increase its scripted slate. Deadline was the first to break the news.
Grey’s Anatomy recently wrapped its 22nd season, which saw Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver scrub in for the last time at Grey Sloan.
News broke in March that McKidd, who joined the long-running medical drama as Owen Hunt 18 years ago, and Raver (Teddy Atlman) would not be returning for season 23. While there’s a brief scare that Owen was severely injured in a bridge collapse during Thursday’s finale, the audience (and Teddy) later learn he was actually MIA because he was helping on the scene.
The season finale, directed by McKidd, ended with Teddy and Owen — who got divorced earlier this season — reigniting their endless on-again, off-again relationship by deciding to move to Paris together for Teddy’s new job opportunity as a research incubator.
“In my mind, for all these years, I [did] wonder what the exit would be. And I always thought that Owen, having joined the show in quite a traumatic way, carrying all this trauma with him, that he should end his Grey’s tenure in a blaze of some kind of heroic death. That felt fitting for Owen,” McKidd told EW in an exclusive interview. “But ultimately, I don’t know. I think the decision was made for various reasons [and] to keep the door open.”
He continued: “There’ve been a lot of people dying on the show recently. I’m not sure the show or the fans really have a stomach for that anymore, or at least not right now. Seeing a happy ending — a happy new chapter for Teddy — is a beautiful message to send out there. There’s a lot of darkness in the world at the moment.”
Grey’s Anatomy will return for season 23 in the fall.