“Grey’s Anatomy” debuted on March 27, 2005, as a midseason replacement on ABC’s Sunday night schedule. At the time, series creator Shonda Rhimes was a newcomer. In an interview with Variety, executive producer Peter Horton said the pilot for the medical drama series was the ultimate team effort due to Rhimes’ lack of television experience. “The pilot of ‘Grey’s’ was just a hoot because it was Shonda Rhimes’ first project,” he said. “She was new to the TV world. We all got to dive into that trend and make her script the best we could.”
The opening scene –- whether they used the poignant body shot or the awkward morning after chaos –- still would have resulted in the same theme for the show: Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd couldn’t be together because he was one of her superiors –- and married to fellow SGH co-worker Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) at that!
Other changes made to the original script did affect the show. In an interview for the “How to Save a Life” book, “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Stacey McKee revealed that a lot of details in the original script were cut out due to time constraints. “The original script was really long, an unmakeable draft, ultimately,” she said, per Entertainment Weekly. “We ended up shooting quite a bit of it, but obviously, you can’t have a three-hour first episode.” McKee also revealed that several characters’ relationships changed with the rewrites. “But the core story was always there,” she added.
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