Grey's Anatomy Spinoff Leaves California, Premiere Moves to 2027-28
The Grey's Anatomy spinoff set in West Texas will film in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and its premiere has moved back to the 2027-28 season, Deadline reported on 6 November 2026. The franchise has never filmed outside California in its 23-year history. The show was first announced for a midseason 2027 start, meaning a slot partway through the TV year, and that date no longer stands.
The reason is money. A tax credit is a rebate that a state pays back on what a production spends locally, and studios use these to decide where to shoot. The spinoff's application for a California tax credit was rejected twice, according to the same report. ABC and its producing studio, 20th Television, delayed the series while they worked through the state's tax incentive system. The show is now in pre-production, the planning and set-building stage that comes before filming, in Albuquerque.
California's rules have been under public discussion. Betsy Beers, an executive producer at Shondaland, the production company behind Grey's Anatomy, testified at an Assembly Committee hearing in North Hollywood on the state's film and television tax credit system. The hearing was about the system as a whole, not about this one series.
The spinoff was created by Shonda Rhimes and Meg Marinis. Rhimes, Beers, Marinis and Ellen Pompeo are all credited as executive producers. The series is described as an edgy drama about a team working at a rural medical center in West Texas. Its setting is a small town, not a big city hospital, and its story now sits in New Mexico rather than the Los Angeles area where the parent show is made.
For the people who make television, a move like this is rarely just a change of postcode. Each production brings its own crew, local hires, suppliers and rental houses, and each one is planned around a shooting schedule. A later premiere gives the team more time to get that machinery running. It also means viewers will wait longer for the first episode.
