Season 17 of "Grey's Anatomy" broadcast from November

Ellen Pompeo is Meredith Gray in "Grey's Anatomy" -

That's it, it's the start of the playoffs.

This Friday, the American channel ABC unveiled its program for the coming months, with the return of its flagship fictions.

Among them, the eagerly awaited

.

Normally (understand all the previous years when we lived without Covid-19), the American public finds Ellen Pompeo at the end of September.

But not this time.

Health crisis requires, the shootings of the series have been postponed from March.

The last four episodes of the sixteenth season could not be boxed, forcing fans to be content with 21 episodes instead of 25. But be reassured,

will be back on November 12 on ABC.

An intrigue around the coronavirus

Little is yet known about the adventures that will be reserved for the doctors at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.

However, executive producer Krista Vernoff revealed this summer that the Covid-19 pandemic will be incorporated into this new season.

“You can't be a long-running medical series and not evoke real life,” she said during a panel broadcast on the Television Academy's YouTube channel.

ABC has not restricted itself to

and has also announced what other series to resume soon.

, derived from the channel's medical hit, will also be available on Thursday, November 12.

And if you are in need of fictions in a white coat,

will be back ten days before, on Monday, November 2.

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