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Grey’s Anatomy Eyes Final 20th Season, Ellen Pompeo Back, as Shows Loses Average 800K Viewers This Season

By Roger Friedman
GREY’S ANATOMY - “With a Little Help From My Friends” – Richard recruits Meredith and Bailey to help him launch a new program. Meanwhile, Addison’s patient has complications from a procedure, and Jo helps a woman who goes into premature labor on a new episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” THURSDAY, OCT. 21 (9:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (ABC/Eric McCandless) GREY'S ANATOMY

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It looks like Ellen Pompeo is coming back to “Grey’s Anatomy.”

On Thursday, in the season finale, Meredith Grey’s research in Boston went sideways. She’ll be coming back to Seattle in the fall.

It’s likely that whenever “Greys” starts its fall season, it will be its last. The 19th season lost 800,000 viewers from beginning to end, on average. They went from 3.8 million at the start to 3 million at the end. On May 11th they went under 3 million for the first time

The party at Sloan Grey is over. The show is on life support at ABC. But really, isn’t 20 seasons enough? “Greys” is trounced in its time slot by “Law & Order SVU” and “So Help Me Todd.” So help me, its true.

I’m sure ABC will plan a big two hour ending for next spring 2024. And “Greys” will go off into syndication or streaming. All wounds will be sewn up, maybe by Meredith getting remarried.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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