Youd be hard-pressed to find a show more inclusive of Greys Anatomy did you see those docs wearing hijabs last week? but it still comes up short in one regard.

There are no major male characters who are into other men.

Its time that changed, and we have 16 reasons why.

Greys Anatomy Season 13 airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m ET on ABC.

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None of the shows 13 seasons so far has featured a major gay male character, so this inclusion seems long overdue.

Characters like Callie, Arizona, Eliza, Penny, Erica, and Sadie have paved the way and countless Calzona shippers prove how well these same-sex storylines can work.

Just this season, for example, two male fiancs arrived at the hospital after a turkey fryer accident. (Culinary foolishness knows no sexual orientation, apparently.)

As Marketplace reports, the show has cashed in on the Netflix effect. That is to say, young viewers who were too young to be aware of Greys when it premiered in 2005 have discovered the shows past seasons on Netflix and have caught up to its live airings.

When a fan asked the Greys Anatomy creator Why all the gay and lesbian storylines? in 2012, she wrote a lengthy response.

I believe everyone should get to see themselves reflected on TV, she said.

As long as someone feels like it is okay to ask the question Why all the gay people on your shows, then there is still a huge problem that needs to be solved.

Gay and bisexual men play prominently in Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, and The Catch.

In her capstone project, American University student Annie Kanter quoted a 23-year-old Greys fan singing its praises:

With Greys Anatomy, when there were lesbians, it was always like, Oh my god, there are lesbians on this show! People were threatening to stop watching it.

Now it has totally passed that. Now it is more of This is the gay couple on the show and eventually it will hopefully move to This is just another couple.

Gay men have been conspicuous by their absence, at least among the doctors, wrote one viewer.

Oh sure, theyll often have a gay male patient, whose partner will be allowed to give him an affectionate peck now and again. But gay male doctors ripping their clothes off and jumping on each other in the medical supply room? Nary a sign.

Just look at the reaction from right-wing site Newsbusters to the lesbian teen romance in Greys Anatomys Season 12 premiere:

Apparently the episode was titled Sledgehammer to indicate that they are going to beat us over the head with the same liberal themes all season long, the site wrote.

In its most recent Network Responsibility Index, GLAAD gave ABC a good rating, especially because the network had the highest volume of LGBT-inclusive content that year. That said...

Former Greys star Sara Ramirez has called out two regressive moments on ABC this year a joke targeting bisexual individuals in The Real ONeals and the exclusion of overtly-bisexual figures in When We Rise.

Remember when Callies love interest Erica Hahn walked into the hospital parking lot in Season 5 and was never seen again? Thats because actress Brooke Smith had been fired amid reports ABC execs wanted to de-gay the show.

Speaking of Greys Anatomy scandals, Isaiah Washington lost his role as Preston Burke in 2007 after referring to co-star T.R. Knight as a ft, which in turn forced T.R. to publicly come out as gay.

Even a decade later, none of us have forgotten about that on-set homophobic slur, but a male-male romance would help make the painful chapter a distant memory.

According to GLAADs 2016 Where We Are on TV report, 4.8 percent of the series regular characters expected to appear on broadcast scripted primetime programming in the coming year were identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

However, that statistic is low when you consider that 7 percent of millennials identify as LGBT, according to a recent study.

Recurring guest star Moe Irvin, for example, has appeared in 29 episodes, more than some of the shows full-time cast members.

Why cant Nurse Tyler have a bigger role and a male beau? (After all, he is the one who came up with the nickname McSteamy even before Mark Sloan arrived.)

But for that matter...

Characters with fluid sexuality are all the rage on TV, so dont take a major characters romantic history as proof of their sexual orientation.

Any of the shows single male docs DeLuca, for example, or even Nathan could explore his placement on the Kinsey scale.

Youd be hard-pressed to find a show more inclusive of Greys Anatomy did you see those docs wearing hijabs last week? but it still comes up short in one regard.

There are no major male characters who are into other men.

Its time that changed, and we have 16 reasons why.

Greys Anatomy Season 13 airs on Thursdays at 8 p.m ET on ABC.

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April 4, 2017 Highlight showing the sides of the tombs containing the bull/ram skulls, spheres/circles linked by cords and the shell (A). Note the similarity of the skull and horns to the uterus and fallopian tubes, respectively (B). The shell contained in image A clearly resembles the shell contained in Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1483), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy (C). Image B of the uterus and adnexa from Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy with permission Philadelphia: Elsevier. Credit: Clinical Anatomy

Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have concealed symbols associated with female anatomy within his famous work in the Medici Chapel.

For example, the sides of tombs in the chapel depict bull/ram skulls and horns with similarity to the uterus and fallopian tubes, respectively.

Numerous studies have offered interpretations of the link between anatomical figures and hidden symbols in works of art not only by Michelangelo but also by other Renaissance artists.

"This study provides a previously unavailable interpretation of one of Michelangelo's major works, and will certainly interest those who are passionate about the history of anatomy," said Dr. Deivis de Campos, lead author of the Clinical Anatomy article. Another recent analysis by Dr. de Campos and his colleagues revealed similar hidden symbols in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.

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More information: Deivis de Campos et al, Pagan symbols associated with the female anatomy in the Medici Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Clinical Anatomy (2017). DOI: 10.1002/ca.22882

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Capcom reveals the 20-year-old guide it still uses today.

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 04/04/2017

Capcom has published scans of a 20-year-old guide it still uses today when creating Street Fighter characters.

That's Demitri Maximoff from Darkstalkers on the cover.

At GDC last month, Capcom's Toshiyuki Kamei delivered a talk on the art direction of Street Fighter 5. As part of it, he discussed Anatomy: A Strange Guide for Artists, a document created 20 years ago around the time Darkstalkers was being made.

This document was edited by legendary Capcom artist Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, who intended for it to help teach the company's artists the rules of exaggerated anatomical features to be followed when making cool-looking pixel art.

Now, Capcom has published scans of the guide on its website, and while the accompanying text is in Japanese, we still get a decent idea of what Anatomy: A Strange Guide for Artists is all about.

The cover shows Demitri from the Darkstalkers series, and inside we see figure drawings similar to the style of Andrew Loomis, the American illustrator, alongside notes.

"It explains shortcuts and rules about how we take musculature and a character's frame and make a sprite out of it," Kamei explained during his GDC talk.

"If you exaggerate this part of the musculature it looks cool, or if you make this part slimmer it can be more efficient in the visual language. There are a lot of different rules.

"Even though this is over 20 years old, having this information about what's important and not important is still used today."

Kamei revealed an example of how this guide was used in the creation of Street Fighter 5 characters.

"When you're looking at an arm from the front, the rule is the upper arm should be thinner than the lower arm," he explained. "But when looking at it from the side, that same arm should look narrow in the forearm and wider for the upper arm.

"By following this one rule you can convey a lot of information about how this character is extending their arm, whether they're doing a straight punch or an uppercut in a really short amount of time."

Capcom created a Street Fighter 5 prototype that used photo-realistic visuals and realistic proportions, but found it made the game harder to play, so it stuck with a more exaggerated style for the game.

It's really cool to see scans of Anatomy: A Strange Guide for Artists, and get a peek behind the curtain of how Capcom's fighting games are made. Credit to Akiman, then, for his early days work on establishing the rules that would help in the creation of fighting games for the next 20 years.

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President Trump started off this morning as he often does, by settling in to watch the festival of nincompoopery that is Fox & Friends. On the show, he saw something that he believes vindicates the bizarre and false charge he made that Barack Obama was tapping his phones during the presidential campaign.

Ill try to sort through the substance of all this. But I also want to make a broader argument about how Trumps support system inside his government but especially in the conservative media and on Fox, which is where he apparently gets most of his intelligence information is playing to his worst instincts, harming him politically, and making his presidency even more dangerous.

Todays antics all started with a report on Fox & Friends in which correspondent Adam Housley reported that a high-ranking Obama administration official had requested the unmasking of the names of Trump officials who were caught up in surveillance of foreign targets. Ordinarily, when a U.S. person shows up in such surveillance say, talking to a Russian ambassador whose communications are being monitored that persons identity is blacked out in reports on the surveillance. While Housley did not identify the Obama administration official, he did say that Trump associates were being picked up by this surveillance for a year before Trump took office.

Then we get this report from Eli Lake, identifying former national security adviser Susan Rice as the Obama official who requested the unmasking. Id like to highlight this passage:

Rices requests to unmask the names of Trump transition officials does not vindicate Trumps own tweets from March 4 in which he accused Obama of illegally tapping Trump Tower. There remains no evidence to support that claim.

But Rices multiple requests to learn the identities of Trump officials discussed in intelligence reports during the transition period does highlight a longstanding concern for civil liberties advocates about U.S. surveillance programs. The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rices unmasking requests were likely within the law.

Id say that if members of the Trump team were in communication with foreign actors who were under surveillance, that damn sure has foreign intelligence value, and its not too surprising that the national security adviser would want to know about it. Were talking about associates of a presidential candidate communicating with representatives of a foreign power.

Lets back up for a moment and go through the series of events here to get some context. Heres what has happened, with the caveat that some of the information is sketchy:

1. On March 4, President Trump sends out a series of tweets claiming that Barack Obama tapped his phones, apparently because of an article Trump saw on Breitbart. In subsequent days, the FBI director, the NSA director, the former director of national intelligence and everyone in any position to know make clear that not only didnt Obama tap Trumps phones, the president has no power to order phone-tapping.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been repeatedly defending President Trump's unproven claims that former president Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him in 2016. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

2.Because Trump never backs down from even the most ridiculous lie, his employees and allies are now required defend his claim. So spokesperson Sean Spicer argues that because in a different tweet Trump put the words wire tapping in quotes, that means he was referring to a whole host of surveillance types and not his phones being tapped, despite the fact that he said President Obama was tapping my phones. Trump himself will later pick up this argument.

3.Two White House officials, Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis, locate intelligence reports that include Trump officials in communication with Russians under surveillance by American intelligence agencies. The White House says they came across those reports in the ordinary course of business and were not actually looking for something that would back up Trumps claim; you can decide how plausible you find that. In any case, they then call Rep. Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, to the White House so he can view the information. Nunes then holds a news conference announcing the find and briefs Trump on what Trumps own staff has told him.

All of this was designed to allow Trump to say that he was right all along that he was being targeted by Obama, which of course he does.

4. Im skipping over some smaller developments and plenty of details. But today, we have the following series of events: Trump officials leak that Rice requested the unmasking of the identities of Trump associates who were in communication with foreigners under surveillance; those reporters publish their stories; then the president himself calls attention to them on his Twitter feed:

This particular PR maneuver is not unprecedented, but the point is this: Whats obviously of most importance to the president of the United States isnt the fact that his associates were in contact with people from Russia (or other countries) who were of sufficient interest to U.S. intelligence that they would be under surveillance, but whether or not each new detail that emerges does or does not support his idiotic tweets.

And this is why I argue that Fox and some of Trumps allies are only helping him hurt himself. Much of the time, having a supportive amen chorus has great political utility, because it helps buck up your base and disseminate the arguments youre making. But its one thing when those arguments are things like We should cut taxes or Obamacare is a disaster. Its something else when theyre trying desperately to claim that every stupid thing Trump ever said is actually true.

In this case, clinging to the idea that the Obama administration unfairly monitored the Trump campaign only encourages further investigation of what could turn out to be one of the biggest scandals in American political history. Nuness buffoonish efforts on Trumps behalf havent helped him at all. Quite the contrary, theyve made his committee utterly irrelevant and increased pressure on the Senate Intelligence Committee to conduct a thorough and objective review. Nunes has zero credibility, and so he can no longer be an asset to the White House.

But when Trump tunes in to Fox & Friends every morning, he learns that hes right about everything. He doesnt need to listen to his intelligence briefers or anyone else who might tell him something he doesnt want to hear. He can keep telling tall tales and pursuing his petty grievances. He never does anything wrong and never has to change. I shudder to think how that dynamic will play out when this administration faces its first foreign policy crisis, with untold numbers of lives at stake.

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Everybody is talking about the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy ... and for the first time it's not because of the emotional drama.

In episode 18 (season 13) - not one, but two hijabis made an appearance on the show, playing the roles of doctors and nurses.

The episode "Be Still, My Soul"was directed by the show's very own Ellen Pompeo (Meredith). She revealed on Twitter that it was very intentionalon her part to have hijabi representation on screen.

As if we needed another reason to love the show.

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Dushko Bajic, the new head of equities at Colonial First State Global Asset Management.

For Dushko Bajic, a centralinvestment rule is this: in uncertain times, you have to hold the courage of your convictions.

"When the market gets in a funk, it double counts, triple counts," says Colonial First State Global Asset Management's new head of equities, who oversees $10.8 billion in funds under management at one of the market's largest growth managers.

Take DavidTeoh'sTPG Telecom. The stock a long-time market darling was beaten up in the second half of last yearafter a profit downgrade which quickly led to many investors reversing their long-held view thatTeohwas a master capitalallocatorand business builder.

In particular, concerns linger about TPG's strategy of expanding into the Singapore market though Bajic argues that, like many of the concerns relating to TPG, they are overdone.

"In a market like 2015it would have been 'Look at whatTeohhas done in Australia, he'll do it in Singapore'," he says. "Nowit's maybe it's different market, maybe it's a distraction, maybe they need to do a capital raising ... it's the anatomy of halving a PE."

TPG was also a target of short-sellers, though Bajic is pragmatic about that market dynamic.

"I'm happy for shorters to exist and to createefficiency and inefficiency, which sometimes means a good buying price. One of the remaining sources of competitive advantage is being able to be patient investors, which we're committed to being," he says.

As an investment style, growth isn't exactly flavour of the moment.The 2016 calendar yearwas the worst for quality and growth in 15 years, according toRealindex.

Since Bajic joined CFSGAM, the concentratedAustralian share fund return is 9.6 per cent per annum, compared to 9.2 per cent for the S&P/ASX 200 benchmark over the same period.

While Bajic may have a relatively low profile for someone who manages such a large fund, he has worked in financial markets since his first job as an analyst at Credit Suisse Asset Management.

Before joining Colonial nearly three years ago, the 43-year-oldBajichad worked at boutique Orion Asset Management with Tim Ryan.

Orion, which at its peak had funds under management of about $7 billion, ultimatelyclosed in 2013because of underperformance and an association with a high-profile insidertrading case.

Bajicsays there is much that was attractive about moving to Colonial the emphasis on strong research, the growth investment style and an existingstrong team.

But, ultimately, there was one moment which really convinced him he would take the role as deputy to Colonial's then head of equities, Marcus Fanning, in July 2014 with the understanding Fanning was grooming his successor.

"The way we convinced each other was we compared old portfolios," hesays."The ultimate measure is howsimilar your investment portfolio is."

In terms of macro, Bajicis sceptical about the impact being attributed toTrump reflation trade, arguing that better-than-expected economic growth in Europe, the US and China had begun before the new US president was elected and that was the key marketdynamic.

It was that view that led him to go overweight the two largest sectors in the market banks and resources last year.

Resources stocks arealways beneficiaries of economic growth, though Bajicnotes the performance would be far stronger if they had the disciplinedcapital allocation oftheir banking peers.

Bajicargues banks can organically generate the capital they need to meet their capital targets for the next three years, even if net interest margins are flat or decline.

And the banking regulator's decision to tighten lending by the banks on Friday?

Bajic says restrictions on interest-only lending to 30 per cent of new residential lending is significant, noting it contributes about 40 per cent of mortgage approvals at the moment. But he's broadly supportive.

"It makes sense to me. The result will be less of the type of credit growth you don't want and debt in the hands of those who can afford it. It won't choke off credit for new supply and that's important for keeping houses prices in check with incomes," he says.

Bajicsays REA Group is one stock he's added to the portfolio, on the basis that there's still plenty of advertising spend they will be able to capture. And he's impressed with the management team.

He also highlightsAristocrat Leisure which the fund has owned for averylong time asanother stock helikes for its recurringrevenueand its success in identifying and offsetting zombie machine risk by moving into the online market.

Mayne Pharma is another out-of-favour growth stock Bajiclikes, arguing the proposed Trump healthcare reform should benefit, rather than hurt, the generics manufacturer as it would likely push more of the healthcare spend to that segment of the market.

Bajic says Colonial'sability to invest time in strong research particularlyat a time when broking firms andresearch analysts are under financial pressure and investing far less in experienced analysts wasanother reason for accepting the job at CBA's funds manager. And he acceptsthat hiring analysts as portfolio managers isn't usually seen as a strong hire.

"Good analysts don't 100 per cent make good PMs, but a subset of goodanalystsdomakegood PMs,"hesays, noting that analysts who have become heads of equities tend to transition particularlywell.

While he's big on the importance of always doing the research, Bajicnotes that it's not foolproof.

"Youshould always do the research, sometimes you get the wrong conclusion," he says. But equally importantly, markets move fast and he warns that analysts need to have the capacity to do both quick and long-dated research.

That's why he has some other key investment rules: frequent testing of the validity of the investment thesis and creating a culture and process that generates ideas.

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A few of the actors have already revealed that this season won't end with a catastrophic event (no plane crashes, sorry), but we do know that there is major drama afoot, especially with Riggs and Maggie. The Grey Sloan crew was all smiles on set, however, so either they're great at compartmentalizing or there is nothing earth-shattering happening in the finale.

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Mississippi States Teaira McCowan, right, blocks UConns Gabby Williams during the second half of the national semifinals in Dallas Friday.

Mississippi States Teaira McCowan, right, blocks UConns Gabby Williams during the second half of the national semifinals in Dallas Friday.

Mississippi States Morgan William (2) shoots her game-winning shot at the buzzer over UConns Gabby Williams (15) on Friday night in Dallas. Mississippi State upset No. 1 UConn 66-64 in overtime.

Mississippi States Morgan William (2) shoots her game-winning shot at the buzzer over UConns Gabby Williams (15) on Friday night in Dallas. Mississippi State upset No. 1 UConn 66-64 in overtime.

DALLAS UConns stay at the top is over.

For the first time since 2012, there will a new champion in womens college basketball. Mississippi State made that clear after shocking the sport with a 66-64 takedown of the Huskies in overtime on Friday at the Final Four.

We had to redeem ourselves from last year, of course, said Bulldogs guard Morgan William, whose buzzer-beating jump shot erased the sting of a 60-point loss to the Huskies in last years Sweet 16. I mean, just watching film, our coaches just preparing us, tell us what we can do. We believed them. We just went out there and fought.

Theres still plenty to digest after UConns record 111-game winning streak came to a close. Here are five factors that enabled the Bulldogs to pull off a win that almost nobody thought was possible.

THE MAGIC LIVES ON: What were the odds of William topping her magical 41-point performance in Mississippi States Elite Eight upset of Baylor? Slim to none, it seemed.

Nevertheless, William topped one of the best individual performances in tournament history by making possibly the biggest shot in tournament history. All UConn coach Geno Auriemma could do was smile.

Things happen for a reason, Auriemma said. I just kind of shook my head. This kids had an incredible run.

When it went in, it was almost like, Of course. Of course its going to go in. Shes had an amazing run so far.

POOR CLOCK MANAGEMENT: UConn conceivably couldve held the ball for the last shot of overtime after Katie Lou Samuelson knocked down two free throws to tie it 64-64 with 26.6 seconds left. But rather than bleed down the 25-second shot clock, Saniya Chong drove into the lane and put up an off-balance shot with 14.2 seconds left that missed the rim entirely and sailed out of bounds.

The worst-case scenario for the Huskies shouldve been double overtime.

Saniya just tried to make a great play. God bless her, Auriemma said. There was a collision and nothing happened. Shes pretty good at drawing fouls. (She was) just impatient a little bit, thats all.

EDGE ON THE BOARDS: By taking advantage of UConns undersized frontcourt, the Bulldogs exploited one of their opponents few weaknesses. The Bulldogs finished with a 37-31 edge on the boards and 28-20 advantage on points in the paint.

Teaira McCowan, a 6-foot-7 sophomore, was quietly effective, notching 10 points and eight rebounds despite playing just 25 minutes because of foul trouble.

I guess with us, we kind of knew going in we had to impose our will, as coach said, said 6-1 forward Breanna Richardson, whose team also out-scored UConn 18-4 on second-chance points. He said even if we get a couple early fouls, make them count.

RIDING THE WAVES: While plenty was made of the 14-0 Mississippi State run that put the tournaments No. 1 overall seed down 16 points midway into the second quarter, the Bulldogs response to the 9-0 UConn spurt that followed was just as important.

Refusing to be bullied by the Huskies, the Bulldogs pushed their lead back to eight points at halftime. The Huskies hadnt trailed by more than four points at halftime at any point during their incredible win streak.

We knew they were going to make a run, Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer said. So what you got to do is try to minimize that run. You go in at half up eight. Im sure everybody across the country went, Thats nice, the little team played really good. Second half, theyll come out and kick their (butt).

HEART OF A CHAMPION: How many times have teams had that deer-in-the-headlights look against big, bad UConn? How many times have we seen upset-minded opponents melt down under pressure?

The Bulldogs werent intimidated by UConn, and it showed.

In that moment, they were ready for that moment, Schaefer said.

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"Grey's Anatomy" has seen many faces come and go, but could the series ever exist without Meredith Grey?

Lucky enough, that question won't have to be answered for quite some time because star Ellen Pompeo, who has played the titular character since "Grey's Anatomy" debuted in 2005, isn't going anywhere just yet.

"Shonda [Rhimes] and I have both said that when I'm ready to stop, we're going to stop the show," Pompeo tells Variety, revealing that the series will not ever carry on without her character. "The story is about Meredith Grey's journey and when I'm done, the show will end." With a laugh, she adds, "As far as how much longer I want to do the show, I'm mulling that over as we speak."

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"Grey's Anatomy" has already been renewed for Season 14 for the 2017-2018 television season, and impressively ranks as ABC's top-rated drama -- quite the feat for a show in its 13th season. The forecast for "Grey's" looks like sunny skies of many renewals ahead, but when asked how long the show can remain on air, Pompeo says the future will be up to the fans.

"I'm really open to whatever the universe presents," Pompeo says. "I don't know how long the show will go on. I know the network and the studio like to say they see no end in sight, but I think the audience will tell us when the show is no-longer a fan favorite. I think it's quite arrogant to assume the show can go on forever -- I don't like that approach. Right now, we're very lucky to have the fans still hanging on, and I think the fans will let us know when it's time to stop the show."

Fans globally are hanging on to "Grey's Anatomy" and heading to Netflix helped the show find new life among younger viewers, who discovered it later on in its run. The success has not gone unnoticed by Pompeo.

"I have to say, it's pretty invigorating -- these numbers and this fan appreciation and how much this show touches people, for a silly little primetime soap opera," Pompeo chuckles. "It's this weird anomaly that we're this silly nighttime soap opera and no one can figure out how we keep going and why the numbers are so huge, but the show really makes a difference in people's lives. Everywhere I go, the admiration, and the touching stories that I hear, and the people come up with tears in their eyes and want to hug me, it's as much as it was in the beginning of the show."

Pompeo beams with excitement, explaining that just this week, she received two emails from female viewers who watched last week's episode of "Grey's," which highlighted the issue of inflammatory breast cancer. She says the women wrote her to share that they had been dismissed by doctors, after finding a rash on their breast, and turns out, both went back to their doctors and did indeed have inflammatory breast cancer. "There's a good chance that they will survive because of how early they've caught it because both of them saw last week's episode of 'Grey's Anatomy,' and because of this silly nighttime soap opera!" Pompeo exclaims.

"As a performer and as an artist, your goal is to move people and touch people, and we're still doing that 13 years later, so it's pretty hard to stop when you feel that you are moving people that much," she continues. "As long as the audience is still so interested and so moved, it helps me keep going. It really does. I'm really doing it, at this point, because the people keep inspiring me to do it. They really do."

Pompeo has stayed loyal to the show, despite departures of long-standing stars such as Katherine Heigl, Sara Ramirez, and most notably, Patrick Dempsey.

"Why walk away from a hit?" she says. "You don't walk away from something for nothing. And with the track record out there, I'm good to keep doing it for now," she adds with a laugh.

Whenever the day does come that "Grey's Anatomy" wraps up, Pompeo says she wants to focus on producing through her production company Calamity Jane and possibly add some more directing gigs to her resume, following her directorial debut on this week's episode. She attributes her heightened skills to observing others on the "Grey's" set.

"Shonda has been incredible in letting me evolve with the show. I'm much more involved now, creatively in my storytelling and where the show is going. The longer I stay, the more she empowers me," Pompeo says. "I've learned so much about producing, so much about directing, so much about running a show, that I have a whole other bag of tricks now and a whole other skill set that I've learned, so it goes beyond acting for me. I've taken a much bigger role now and I'm learning a lot. I'm still engaged there."

One thing you can rule out from Pompeo's post-"Grey's" future is another broadcast series.

"I'd never do another 24-episode per season show ever again, no," she admits. "But I have the luxury of not doing that again. I'll probably do a shorter series -- Netflix or Hulu or Amazon with a 10-episode run. Something like that. I would do a shorter run, for sure, but never this many episodes again. I'm very lucky and grateful to be able to say that I don't have to."

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Final broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Big Bang Theory adjusted up from its initial rating Thursday, but the 0.1 uptick to a 2.6 still puts it at a series low.

Several shows adjusted down. ABCs Greys Anatomy (2.0) and Scandal (1.5) came down a tenth of a point, although both are still ahead of last week. Mom (1.2) and Powerless (0.5) also adjusted down a tenth, as did a Superstore rerun (0.6).

Upward adjustments in adults 18-49 are in blue; downward adjustments are in red.

Network averages:

Definitions: Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent. Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings are available at approximately 11 a.m. ETthe day after telecast. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. Share (of Audience):The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. Time Shifted Viewing:Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data Live, Live +Same-Day and Live +7 Day. Time-shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+SD includes viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3 a.m. local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live +7 ratings include viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

Source: The Nielsen Company.

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