gears up for its 20th season, speculation continues on when TV's longest-running primetime medical drama will hang up the stethoscope.
Series creator Shonda Rhimes, who oversaw the early seasons of , maintains that nothing has changed when it comes to her stance on if and when the show should sign off.
Rhimes and longtime star Ellen Pompeo, who left full-time earlier this season, have said over the years that it'll be time to end the show when they both decide to.«My involvement stands in the exact same place it has always been,» Rhimes told ET's Deidre Behar while promoting the launch of Netflix's , which drops Thursday.«Ellen's spectacular and I think she deserves a little bit of creative time that's different from what she's been doing,» she explained. «She's been doing this job — I mean, nobody expected the show to go this many seasons.
We're entering the 20th season, so she deserves the break and get the chance to do something else.»Rhimes stepped away from day-to-day duties on several years ago, handing it off to showrunner Krista Vernoff, who herself will be leaving the post at the end of season 19.
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