There's Two 'Grey's Anatomy' Spinoff TV Show Ideas That Never Happened, According to Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes is revealing two Grey’s Anatomy spinoff ideas that did not work out.
Grey’s did have two spinoff shows – 2007′s Private Practice and 2018′s Station 19 – but apparently, a few never made it past the idea phase.
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“On Grey’s, there were a bunch. I felt like we could have done Chicago Anatomy, Boston. We could have done that. It just didn’t appeal to me to rebuild the same world. And then we thought about a lot of things,” Shonda told EW.
Shonda added, “I thought that there could be a spinoff with Amelia [Caterina Scorsone] that was the Shepherd sisters. They’re all doctors. It could have been a Shepherd sisters show, which would’ve been very interesting.”
The Shepherd family all ended up appearing on Grey’s, including Derek (Patrick Dempsey) – who obviously starred until his character’s death. We then individually saw Derek’s sisters, Amelia (Scorsone), Nancy (Embeth Davidtz), Kathleen (Amy Acker), and Liz (Neve Campbell), as well as matriarch Carolyn Shepherd (Tyne Daly).
About spinoffs, she added, “If you spin off a character, what people want is more of the same. They’re like, ‘Oh, I’m going to get another show where Addison’s [Kate Walsh] the mistress.’ Instinctively you want more of the same because that really worked. And to build a new world is incredibly difficult.”