Grey's was only able to film 21 of its 25 Season 16 episodes before the coronavirus shutdown a month ago. The early season finale aired on Thursday night. "We were so lucky that we happened to have a perfect season finale episode in the can when it became clear that we had to shut down," says showrunner Krista Vernoff. "It was just dumb luck. We wrote this episode and I said to the writers, 'You guys, this is like a season finale. Where were we going to go from here?' And so we got lucky. I don’t know yet how we’re going to use what we had planned for the last four episodes. I’m going to gather the writers in about four weeks, and we’re going to start talking about Season 17. I imagine we will use some of what we had planned, and I imagine that we’ll have had a break, and a whole bunch of sleep, and a whole bunch of time in our houses to think. And we may come up with some different ways to tell some of these stories."
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TOPICS: Grey's Anatomy, ABC, James Pickens Jr., Justin Chambers, Krista Vernoff, Coronavirus