First Trailer Shows Coronavirus Themed Grey's Anatomy Season Will Be Intense

The first trailer for the upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy has dropped and it's a doozy.

Fans have been told that Season 17 will touch on the coronavirus pandemic and our first look at the new material shows the cast covered in face masks and personal protective equipment.

We get a pensive and mildly anxious Meredith Grey (played by Ellen Pompeo) saying in the advert: "Sometimes, we all need saving...We need to just not give up."

What will be even more special about the new season is that there will be the highly anticipated crossover with TV series Station 19. If you don't watch that show then you'll still be getting all the highs and lows of your regular Grey's Anatomy programming.

We've also been promised to have all those cliffhangers from Season 16 addressed and cleared up, which will no doubt be music to fans' ears as that was a particularly hair raising finale.

Back in July, the show's producers revealed it would be silly not to include one of the biggest health stories of the last century in their upcoming season and they would be using real doctors to make it more authentic.

Executive producer Krista Vernoff said: "There's no way to be a long-running medical show and not do the medical story of our lifetimes."

Vernoff made the comments during Quaranstreaming: Comfort TV That Keeps Us Going panel, hosted by the Television Academy - she was joined by stars Chandra Wilson (who plays Dr Miranda Bailey) and Kevin McKidd (who fans will know as Dr Owen Hunt).

During the panel, the executive producer revealed the writers were meeting with real-life doctors who were willing to share their experiences of the outbreak to help create the scripts, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Vernoff added: "Every year, we have doctors come and tell us their stories, and usually they're telling their funniest or craziest stories. This year, it has felt more like therapy.

"The doctors come in and we're the first people they're talking to about these types of experiences they're having. They are literally shaking and trying not to cry, they're pale, and they're talking about it as war - a war that they were not trained for.

"And that's been one of our big conversations about Owen, is that he's actually trained for this in a way that most of the other doctors aren't."

The first episode of the new season will debut on American televisions on November 12.

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