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Season Five: 2008–2009
- Nielsen Ranking (2008–09 U.S. TV season; based on average total viewers per episode): #12 (14.6 million viewers)
The fifth season premiered with a two-hour episode on September 25, 2008, directly after the third season premiere of Ugly Betty. Regular one-hour episodes of the series began airing in the U.S. on October 9, 2008, following the October 2 coverage of the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate. Rumors had begun swirling that two of the show's main stars, T.R Knight and Katherine Heigl were vouching for their exit off the show, after Heigl publicly announced that she would not be submitting her name into the Emmy race, and reports had been leaking that there was tension between T.R Knight and show creator Shonda Rhimes. OK! magazine reported that Katherine Heigl was remaining with Grey's Anatomy,[39] and that Kevin McKidd and Melissa George were being added to the cast. On November 3, 2008 it was announced that Brooke Smith (Erica Hahn) had been written out of the show.[15] Before the announcement of Smith's departure, it was announced that Mary McDonnell would appear as Virginia Dixon, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Asperger syndrome.[40] It was also announced that Melissa George would not be remaining as a series regular, and her run on the show would end after her character, Sadie Harris, decides to leave the hospital.
On November 6, 2008, TV Guide reported that Grey's Anatomy would feature a multi-episode crossover arc with spin-off Private Practice in time for February sweeps.[41]
The season focused on Derek's discovery of Meredith's mother's journals from when she was a resident, Meredith's reaction to the journals, Lexie and her fellow interns performing procedures on each other, the appearance of Meredith's old friend Sadie, the reappearance of Denny Duquette, who appears to Izzie Stevens as a hallucination, only to later learn that she was terminally ill (further speculating rumors that Heigl was looking for a departure from the show) the intensity rising between the residents as an opportunity for a solo surgery comes into play, and various staff romances.
On February 26, 2009, Entertainment Weekly announced that Jessica Capshaw has signed a contract with ABC that allows pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbins to be featured on all Season 5 episodes to come with the option to return as a series regular next season.[42][43]
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