Grey's Antaomy since the show's premiere in 2005. Now in its 17th season,
Grey's is featuring pandemic plot twists, adding new characters and bringing back old ones.
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The venerable doctor drama
Grey's Anatomy is adding new characters, bringing back old ones and writing in COVID-19 subplots in its 17th season. When you look at a list of the longest-running scripted shows,
Grey's Anatomy is among the very few still airing on primetime TV, along with
The Simpsons (32 seasons),
Family Guy (19 seasons) and
NCIS (18 seasons.)
They all come from a completely different era of television, says Steve Mosko, a former Sony Pictures Television executive, now CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group. Back when those shows first started, people still used VCRs to tape TV programs they missed.