Last month, we saw the news that Robert De Niro was making the leap into the realm of TV with the new series, “Zero Day,” on Netflix. Well, it seems as if the legendary actor is ready to keep that TV trend going with yet another new show.
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Deadline reports McCreary approached producers about her interest in pursuing opportunities outside of “Grey’s,” which lead them to plan Maggie’s Season 19 storyline as a launching pad for the character to exit the series.“Kelly McCreary is a writer’s dream come true; brilliant, nuanced, thoughtful, and kind. We will deeply miss her and her beautifully crafted Dr.
Maggie Pierce,” showrunner and executive producer Krista Vernoff said in a statement.Maggie was first introduced as the new head of cardiothoracic surgery in the final episodes of Season 10, as Sandra Oh’s Christina Yang prepped for her exit from the hospital. The final moments of the Season 10 finale featured her revealing to Richard (James Pickens Jr.) that she was Ellis Grey’s biological daughter (the product of her affair with Richard.) The series explored the growing bond between Meredith, Maggie and Richard as a major plot point, to the point where Maggie became one of the pillars of the series.
McCreary has been a series regular since Season 11, and only took a short break in the beginning of Season 18, when she gave birth to her first child with director Pete Chatmon, whom she had met on the set of “Grey’s Anatomy.The show is undergoing major changes in Season 19. Pompeo exited the series as a series regular after the Feb.
23 episode, though she continues to serve as narrator for the show’s opening and closing monologues and as an executive producer for both “Grey’s” and sibling series “Station 19.” She is expected to return for an on-camera appearance for the Season 19 finale. Vernoff also shared in January her plans to exit her role as executive producer and showrunner at the end of both shows’ current seasons.
Last month, we saw the news that Robert De Niro was making the leap into the realm of TV with the new series, “Zero Day,” on Netflix. Well, it seems as if the legendary actor is ready to keep that TV trend going with yet another new show.
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Kelly McCreary is saying goodbye to . ET's Deidre Behar spoke with the 41-year-old actress at PaleyFest, and she revealed the reason behind her departure from the long-running medical drama.McCreary said leaving the show was a «largely creative» decision, noting, «I have lived with and loved Maggie Pierce for nine years. It's a long time.»«At the beginning of every season, I think about Maggie's origins and I think about how she's grown and how she's transformed,» McCreary explained.
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Game of Thrones alumna Lena Headey has been tapped to headline Kurt Sutter’s Western action drama series The Abandons at Netflix.
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Kelly McCreary is closing her chapter in “Grey’s Anatomy”.
Kelly McCreary is saying goodbye to Grey’s Anatomy.
EXCLUSIVE: Grey Sloan Memorial will be losing both of Ellis Grey’s daughters this season. Kelly McCreary, who has played Maggie Pierce, Meredith Grey’s (Ellen Pompeo) half-sister and head of the hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery since the end of Season 10, is departing ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy after nine years. Her last episode as a series regular will air April 13. Like Pompeo, who is set to return for the Season 19 finale after Meredith’s big Feb. 23 sendoff, Maggie also will pop in to visit the doctors of Grey Sloan later this season, following her April 13 farewell.