The long-running ABC medical drama has been renewed for a 22nd season, a representative for ABC confirmed to Good Morning America on Thursday.
Along with the Grey’s Anatomy news, ABC announced a group of show returns for the upcoming 2025-26 television season.
9-1-1 is set to return for its ninth season. The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion, is coming back for its eighth season. Shifting Gears is returning for season 2, and Will Trent is set to return for a fourth season.
With Thursday’s announcement, the Shonda Rhimes-created Grey’s Anatomy cements itself as the longest-running primetime medical drama in TV history, a title the show has held since 2019. The show also claims the title for longest-running primetime series in ABC history.
Season 21, which kicked off in September, picked up in the aftermath of the season 20 finale, which saw Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) at odds with Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen).
One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush has joined the cast in the latest season, playing the role of Dr. Cass Beckman, a trauma surgeon at Seattle Presbyterian whose husband is David Beckman, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial.
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Karla Sofía Gascón, the controversial Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez star, has given special thanks on social media to Madonna.
Gascón, the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for best actress, caused a firestorm of controversy in January after old tweets of hers that contained bigoted speech against marginalized communities surfaced. She was dropped from the Emilia Pérez Oscar campaign and its director disavowed her; however, she did attend the Oscars ceremony March 2.
On Wednesday Gascon shared an Instagram Story of a black-and-white photo of Madonna embracing her. She captioned it, “Madonna, I want to thank you for all the love you have shown me, for your invitation to the party you gave after the Oscars and for your words of love and strength. I love you.”
Madonna had previously stated that Emilia Pérez was her favorite movie of the year, and posted a photo of herself holding director Jacques Audiard‘s Oscar, with Audiard next to her.
Gascón said in an interview in October that Madonna attended the premiere of Emilia Perez and it made her cry. “She told me, ‘You’re amazing!’ She was crying and crying,” Gascón recalled. “I said, ‘Madonna, please. It’s only a film. Be happy!'”
Gascón added in her Story Wednesday that she wanted to thank “all my fellow Hollywood professionals who expressed support and admiration for me that night, both at the gala and at the party.”
Gascón lost the best actress Oscar to Anora star Mikey Madison, but her co-star Zoe Saldaña won the best supporting actress trophy.
The Last of Us is making sure season 2 will be accessible to as many fans as possible.
The drama series will be available to stream in American Sign Language, Max announced on Wednesday.
The first season of the show will also be made available to stream in ASL starting on March 31. This will make it possible for interested fans to catch up on season 1 in time for the season 2 premiere on April 13.
The ASL versions of The Last of Us will be performed by CODA star Daniel Durant and Leila Hanaumi.
This makes Max the first streaming service to offer ASL versions of a major series alongside its premiere episode. It is also the first time original HBO programming will be available to stream in ASL on the platform.
Max previously offered ASL versions of several Warner Bros. movies, including Barbie, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
“We are thrilled to expand our ASL program and debut our first HBO Original series in ASL with The Last of Us,” Naomi Waibel, SVP of global product management at Warner Bros. Discovery, said. “This debut brings the show to life in an authentic and fully accessible way for Deaf audiences and is another meaningful step towards our goal of offering an inclusive streaming experience.”
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return as Joel and Ellie in season 2 of The Last of Us. Set five years after the first season, “Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind,” according to season 2’s official logline.
Season 2 also stars Gabriel Luna, Rutina Wesley, Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord, Danny Ramirez, Jeffrey Wright and Catherine O’Hara.
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The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards streamed live on Netflix on Sunday, February 23, in Los Angeles. Among the big winners were Timothée Chalamet and Demi Moore, who won outstanding performance by a male actor and a female actor in a leading role for, respectively, A Complete Unknown and The Substance. Conclave won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.
On the TV side, Shōgun swept the dramatic categories, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, while Only Murders in the Building took the same award in the comedy category. Colin Farrell and Jessica Gunning won outstanding performance by a male actor and a female actor in a limited series for, respectively, The Penguin and Baby Reindeer.
Kristen Bell hosted the 31st annual awards ceremony, which saw Jane Fonda receive the SAG Life Achievement Award, the Guild’s highest honor, from Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In her acceptance speech, she commented on the current political environment, saying, “We mustn’t, for a moment, kid ourselves about what is happening. This is big time serious, folks. Let’s be brave. We must not isolate. We must stay in community. We must help the vulnerable. We must find ways to project an inspiriting vision of the future.”
Here are all the winners:
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role Demi Moore, The Substance
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture Conclave
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series Jean Smart, Hacks
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series Shōgun
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture The Fall Guy
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series Shōgun
