Grey’s Anatomy is the longest-running scripted prime-time show on ABC, on air since 2005.
A real hospital is used for some scenes. The Veterans Administration Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center in California serves as the entrance for Grey Sloan Memorial.
Only 3 of the original leads are still on the series: Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey), Chandra Wilson (Miranda Bailey) and James Pickens Jr (Richard Webber).
The series employs real doctors to make sure the writers are getting procedures and jargon right.
In 2009, Dereck and Meredith had a real wedding registry on The Knot to encourage fans to donate to research organizations that the fictional couple would have approved.
The character of Miranda Bailey is partially inspired by Shonda Rhimes’ mom, the series’ producer.
Every episode’s title is a song title except for one. “1-800-799-7233” that was named for the domestic violence hotline related to the episode theme.
Jesse Williams (Jackson Avery) was a history teacher before playing in the series.
According to Forbes, Ellen Pompeo is the best paid actress with a salary of $22 million a year.
Shonda Rhimes said that as long as Pompeo wants to play Meredith, the show will be alive but as soon as she wants to stop, the show will end.