'Grey's Anatomy' 100th episode

May 06, 2009 With ratings averaging in the 8s during the past five seasons among adults 18-49, the drama -- which focuses on a close-knit set of interns and doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital -- has become a zeitgeist phenomenon at a time when dwindling audiences and fragmented viewership have all but declared that impossible. Executive producers Betsy Beers and Mark Gordon had met Rhimes as an up-and-coming writer and helped her develop a pilot for a series about war correspondents. The turning point, Beers says, was when Rhimes came up with the idea to use interns as a viewer entree to the jargon-heavy medical world.

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