Grey's Anatomy Season 19: Meet the New Residents

It's the dawn of a caller era. 

Season 19 of Grey's Anatomy is acceptable to spot immoderate large changes astatine Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, with 5 caller aesculapian interns, played by Harry Shum Jr., Adelaide Kane, Alexis Floyd, Niko Terho and Midori Francis, joining the team. 

"This is simply a large woody and it feels truly breathtaking and it's breathing a batch of caller beingness into the show," Grey's showrunner Krista Vernoff told Entertainment Weekly Sept. 13. "To person 5 bid regulars with the endowment and chops and resumes that this radical brings allows for storytelling focused connected what it is to beryllium a marque caller surgeon again and however everything feels beingness and decease and each mistake that you marque could termination someone."

Vernoff noted that Ellen Pompeo's determination to lessen her role connected the amusement paved the mode for the caller stars, adding, "This felt similar the close infinitesimal to travel astatine it caller with a clump [of caller characters]."

And it's up to Jake Borelli's Levi Schmitt to assistance the interns set to the demands of residency, arsenic he's the lone elder nonmigratory inactive astatine Grey Sloan owed to the intern programme closing down. Levi's caller relation comes with a just magnitude of responsibility, but the showrunner noted it's conscionable what helium needs aft the events of the past six months.

"Because the programme had to reboot, each the elder residents got assigned to caller residencies and Levi Schmitt besides got assigned to a caller residency, but helium was not enjoying that residency and made his mode back," Vernoff teased. "And that communicative is successful the premiere and it's precise funny."

Season 19 volition besides spot Dr. Meredith Grey (Pompeo) take a measurement back from her enactment responsibilities, but not till occurrence eight. After that, the writers volition easiness backmost connected Meredith's appearances, shifting absorption to the different doctors within the hospital.

"So 1 of the goals present is to level this caller people of residents successful a mode that everyone falls successful emotion with them," Vernoff said. "And if Meredith isn't present anymore each the time, everybody inactive wants to come. I deliberation Ellen is bonzer and this amusement has ever been an ensemble show. We person truthful galore characters that are truthful beloved and person been connected the amusement for truthful agelong that radical would enactment for."

And viewers will definitely stay tuned arsenic ABC precocious announced that Kate Walsh will beryllium scrubbing successful for play 19 too.