New doctors on the block! Grey’s Anatomy will feature a couple of contemporary faces when season 19 premieres this fall — and the citizens all have very other backstories.

During the season 18 finale, which aired in May, audience mentioned goodbye to Grey Sloan’s surgical citizens following the shutdown on the educating program. The new season will see the return of the program, but the aspiring docs who're studying from Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her friends shall be new.

On July 19, ABC introduced the newest forged member: Alexis Floyd. She will painting first-year surgical resident Simone Griffin, who has a complicated history with the health center, in line with Deadline.

The Inventing Anna alum, 28, isn't any stranger to Shonda Rhimes’ TV global, having performed Neff on the 2022 miniseries. In reality, Floyd says she welcomes the challenge of entering the beloved clinical drama nearly twenty years after it premiered.

“Grey’s Anatomy, like several of Shonda’s canon, is a genre redefining display that remains masterfully dedicated to diversity, relevancy and vulnerability,” Floyd informed Deadline in July. “Joining the cast in its 19th season is an immeasurable honor, and moderately merely, it’s gonna be depraved fun.”

ABC has since added Niko Terho, Midori Francis, Adelaide Kane and Harry Shum Jr. to the roster of amateur citizens. They will play (*19*), Mika Yasuda, Jules Millin and Daniel “Blue” Kwan, respectively.

The teaching program shakeup isn’t the best drama waiting for the Grey Sloan workers when season 19 kicks off. Season 18 ended with multiple OG stars questioning their careers. Chandra Wilson’s Miranda Bailey, as an example, stepped down as chief of surgery.

James Pickens Jr.’s Richard Webber, for his part, went on a sabbatical after the dismantling of the program, leaving Meredith as the new leader of surgical treatment. While the role is exciting for Meredith, it threw a wrench in the surgeon’s plan to move to Minnesota with Nick (Scott Speedman). The couple’s relationship status is up in the air for now — as is Pompeo’s future as the show’s lead.

While the Old School actress signed on for season 19 in January, she has teased the risk of the drama proceeding with out her in the future.

“We’re going to take a look at to stay it going for the young other people, not necessarily with me, however stay it going beyond me,” Pompeo, 52, told Entertainment Tonight in May, noting that “regularly trying to reinvent the show is the challenge at this level.”

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Season 19 of Grey’s Anatomy premieres on ABC Thursday, October 6, at 9 p.m. ET.

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