Grey’s Anatomy is a TV series that is on ABC Family. It is about a bunch of surgical interns, residents, and attendings as they become doctors in further seasons, while trying to maintain personal lives and relationships. The hospital they are located at is called the Seattle Grace-Mercy West Hospital, but is later on renamed to the Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital. The show is set in Seattle, but it is actually filmed in Los Angeles, California. The show was going to be titled Complications originally because of the complicated medical procedures and personal lives of the cast.
In the first few seasons the main actors are Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey, Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang, Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzie Stevens, Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev, T.R. Knight as Dr. George O’Malley, Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey, James Pickens Jr as Dr. Richard Webber, Isaiah Washington as Dr. Preston Burke, and Patrick Dempsey as Dr. Derek Shepard.
Later on there comes new actors: Sara Ramirez as Dr. Callie Torres, Kevin McKidd as Dr. Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Dr. Arizona Robbins, Sarah Drew as Dr. April Kepner, Jesse Williams as Dr. Jackson Avery, Camilla Luddington as Dr. Jo Wilson, Gaius Charles as Dr. Shane Ross, Jerrika Hinton as Dr. Stephanie Edwards, and Tessa Ferrer as Dr. Leah Murphy. There are multiple people that come back as recurring cast and there are multiple guest stars.
The cast has undergone some major cast members leaving and being replaced by several new characters. The twelfth season had a large ensemble of sixteen actors, including four of them from the original cast. In Fall of 2017, the fourteenth season will premiere. The show has been included in various critics’ top ten list and has received numerous awards. It got the 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama, multiple Emmy Nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series.
The show follows Meredith Grey, the daughter of a respectful general surgeon named Ellis Grey, following her acceptance into the residency program at Seattle Grace Hospital. During her residency, Grey works with fellow doctors; Yang, Karev, Stevens, and O’Malley, who each struggling to balance their personal lives with the hectic work and training schedules that are assigned to them. They are under Bailey’s service. Bailey is a senior resident who works beneath Grey’s love-interest, Dr. Shepard, the head of neurosurgery; Yang’s fiancee Dr. Burke, head of cardio; and Ellis Grey’s ex-lover Dr. Webber, the Chief of Surgery.