<P> For the 2014 - 15 TV season, ABC programmed its entire Thursday primetime lineup with Shondaland dramas Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, then branded the night as "Thank God It's Thursday" (or "TGIT"). This echoes ABC's former TGIF branding of its Friday night family sitcoms and even NBC's Must See TV promotion of formidable Thursday night television hits in the 1990s . </P> <P> The remaining fall schedule for ABC was announced on October 30, 2014, where it was announced that Grey's Anatomy would be split into two batches . However, instead of the 12 and 12, there will be eight episodes in the fall which will end with a winter finale on November 20, 2014 like the rest of ABC's primetime lineup "TGIT" Scandal and How To Get Away with Murder . The remaining 16 episodes will air after the winter break, beginning on January 29, 2015 . </P> <P> Not even a week after the Season 10 finale episode aired, the Grey's Anatomy team of writers began collaborating on ideas for Season 11 storylines . Shonda Rhimes tweeted that they were hard at work in the writing room, but would have the month of June off before coming back in full swing to write actual episodes . After the 4th of July weekend, Rhimes tweeted that the writers' room was once again buzzing, as the team had returned from vacation to start writing new episodes for Season 11 . Camilla Luddington confirmed that the filming for the eleventh season would begin on July 25, 2014 . </P> <P> During an interview, Shonda Rhimes stated that "Season 11 is really a Meredith - centric season . She lost her' person', her half - sister has shown up, her husband is chafing to go someplace else ..." She went on to reveal that she's been wanting to do the "familial grenade" storyline for a long time, and at the end of Season 10, she knew it was the time to do it . Rhimes also claimed that Season 11 will pick up right where Season 10 left us, so there won't be much that the audience won't see . In another interview, Rhimes revealed that she and the writers were thinking about doing flashback periods to the younger days of Dr. Ellis Grey and Dr. Richard Webber . Sarah Drew's character Dr. April Kepner became pregnant at the end of the tenth season, which coincided with Drew's real - life pregnancy . </P>

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