ABCs medical dramaGreys Anatomy made more history last spring witha two-year renewal for Seasons 16 and 17. The series star, Ellen Pompeo, is signed for both seasons the current 16th and the next 17th. Will the 2020-21 season presently the last in Pompeos contract be Greys last?

I hope not, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke said during TCA.Greys Anatomy will live as long as Ellen is interested in playing Meredith Grey.

The network hasnot started conversations with Pompeo yet about doing additional seasons.

We will let her lead the pace on that, Burke told Deadline.

Soon moving to 9 PM, Greys Anatomy, the longest running medical drama on television, will be preceded on Thursdays by the third season of spinoff Station 19, withGreys executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff now in charge of both series, creating opportunities for seamless narrative.

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Station 19 will kick off its third season with a two-hour Station 19-Greys crossover. It will be one of four such crossover events through the season, Burke said today.

In an interview with Deadline in November, Vernoff said that the two shows will interconnect every few episodes. We dont want to do it every week, we dont want to create a mold, we dont want to fall into any kind of pattern, we dont want people to ever know what to expect, she said. We have found many different, really quite exciting and fun ways to interact between the two shows.

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Today, Vernoff was complimented by Burke about the way she has done that.

You will start to see relationships emerge between characters that exist in the Station world and the Greys world in really organic ways, Burke said. I am incredibly impressed by what Krista and her team have done to make those worlds feel very seamless in an organic way, not feel forced. And then we will have throughout the Season 4 tentpole events that revolve around big emergencies that would naturally start with first responders (on Station 19) and end up in the hospital (on Greys) and will take the storytelling to a two-hour block.

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