★ This is the Grey’s Anatomy season 15 premiere roundup and it’s going to be a big one…

To start things off, Camilla Luddington posted a BTS pic as an Instagram story of her and Justin during Jo and Alex’s (Jolex) honeymoon. The Grey’s set decorator, Nicole Cramer, posted a pic of the fridge in Jolex’s loft and there’s now a honeymoon pic on it. The pics have been added to the season 15 BTS album.

Season 15 > Behind-the-scenes / On set

 
★ I have added screencaps from both hours of the season 15 premiere to the archive, and the album links are below.

Screencaps > 15.01 – With a Wonder and a Wild Desire

Screencaps > 15.02 – Broken Together

 
★ Grey’s showrunner, Krista Vernoff, gave several interviews where she explained the events of the premiere and what’s ahead for the characters. I’ve only posted below the parts that refer to Justin and Alex Karev’s storyline. The full interviews can be read at the sources linked to below.

The Hollywood Reporter

Speaking of interim chief, how will Alex be a different chief than the ones we’ve seen before? How will Alex being a leader shake things up?

It’s delightfully different. Justin Chambers just lights this story up. In many ways, he was the least likely candidate for the job — which is why we loved it so much when we landed on it in the room after days of discussing the various possibilities. It feels entirely different than the chiefs we’ve seen before — and Justin wears the suit well.

TV Guide

In a surprising twist, Alex is the interim chief of surgery. How does he compare to Bailey in that role?
Vernoff: Alex Karev is an unlikely chief of surgery and that was a joy. It’s a little bit of a fish-out-of-water story initially. Who would have thought that Alex [would score this position]? It’s really joyful to see how he steps into it and rises to [the occasion]. It’s funny, and Justin (Chambers) is just tremendous. Wait ’til you see him in a suit.

So we’re gonna see Alex in a suit really taking this new role seriously?
Vernoff: It’s a temporary thing because Bailey’s gonna take her job back, but Bailey is trying to take care of her health and her stress levels and find the joy that she lost when Ben became a firefighter. It’s a complicated journey she’s taking, but she’ll be chief again at some point. In the meantime, Alex is up against everyone’s judgment and everyone’s doubt and his own self-doubt and it’s really great to see.

Deadline

DEADLINE: This season the show picks up after the wedding, with Jo and Alex on their honeymoon after finally getting married. But as we’ve seen often in the show, marriage doesn’t necessarily lead to forever, with couples often breaking up at some point. Will Jo and Alex be the exception?

VERNOFF: Well, I can’t speak to the long run because who knows how long the show will go on. I feel like Jo and Alex had a really long journey to this moment where they’re newlyweds and they’re happily married and are more interested in leaning into you and me against the world than you and me against each other. I think they’ve earned it.

This next quote is from the Remote Controlled podcast at Variety. I transcribed the part where Krista talks about Alex/Justin that starts at about the 19:52 mark.

You saw in the premiere that Alex is the Interim Chief of Surgery, which I think nobody expected. No one saw that coming. And when we came to that in the writers’ room, we spent weeks talking about ‘Who’s it gonna be? Who’s it gonna be? Who’s it gonna be?’, and when we landed on Alex, we were like, ‘Oh my God, of course it’s Alex!’ And it just was untold. Like, that story was like, ‘Who is he is gonna be as chief?’ was so delightful to us. The first day that Roemehl, our new costume designer, put him in his chief duds, like in his suit, Justin was like, “I feel reborn.” It’s really an exciting, fun thing to watch.

I’ll also leave this mention of Justin here. It’s part of an interview with the Grey’s directors who were working last week (Sept. 25), which included Nicole Rubio who was directing episode 15.06.

Refinery29

While the multi-hyphenate was fairly secretive about her episode, Rubio could confirm she had spent her morning shooting with Justin Chambers and Camilla Luddington, who play newlyweds Alex Karev and Jo Wilson(-Karev?). “They are hysterical,” Rubio said with a laugh. “They were so cute together. They are happy to be here, happy to be married.”

 
★ This week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy is titled “Gut Feeling.” I had previously added some promotional photos to the archive, and here are now the promos and synopsis.

“Gut Feeling” – Meredith works on a patient who happens to specialize in matchmaking, and a seemingly drunk patient pushes Richard’s buttons and gives him a medical mystery to solve. Meanwhile, Maggie tries to reach Teddy after bearing the burden of her secret becomes overwhelming as she struggles with issues in her own personal life on “Grey’s Anatomy,” THURSDAY, OCT. 4 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.

★ Continue voting for Justin as The Male TV Star of the 2018 People’s Choice Awards. You can vote 25 times per e-mail address or Facebook account, per category, per day at the PCAs site HERE.

 
★ Camilla Luddington posted this BTS video from the Entertainment Weekly Grey’s Anatomy cover shoot as an Instagram story.

 
★ On Saturday (Sept. 29), Justin attended Kiki Shepard’s 15th Annual Celebrity Bowling Challenge benefiting The KIS Foundation, which raises awareness and improves the social health and quality of life for patients and families living with Sickle Cell Disease. Below are a couple of pics of him at the event held at Pinz Bowling Center in Studio City, CA.

★ The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived! The 2-hour season 15 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy is TONIGHT on ABC from 8:00-10:00 p.m.(ET)!😀🍿

 
★ Now for some site news, JCO opened 11 years ago today!🎂🎉 I’ll keep it brief and just give a heartfelt thank you to all who visit the site, and to all who follow JCO on Twitter/Facebook. Maintaining a site and social media accounts is hard work and very time-consuming, so a very special thank you goes out to all who have shown kindness and have sent messages of support and appreciation. It truly means a lot.❤ Here’s to another year!🥂

 
★ To wrap this up, Entertainment Weekly gifted us Grey’s fans with this funny video of the cast recapping the show in 30 seconds.

★ Good job, Justin fans! He is nominated for the People’s Choice Award for The Male TV Star of 2018!🙌🙌 Now it’s time to vote to win until October 19.

Just like the first round of voting, you can vote 25 times per e-mail address or Facebook account, per category, per day, at the PCA site (link below).
Votes can also be cast on Twitter and Facebook using the hashtags #JustinChambers #TheMaleTVStar in tweets/posts. If fans vote with Xfinity, there is a limit of 10 votes per nominee, per set-top box.

There are plenty of ways to vote, so get to it! 😎

👉 THE MALE TV STAR OF 2018 👈

In addition to voting for Justin, you can also vote for Grey’s Anatomy in the following categories:

 
★ New post went up on Justin’s Instagram account and this time it’s the cover of Entertainment Weekly with a reminder that this Thursday is the season 15 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy!

In a previous update, I had mentioned that this weekend there would be an exhibit celebrating the 15 seasons of Grey’s Anatomy called “Anatomy of an Icon: 15 Season of Grey’s.”

On Friday, Justin dropped by the exhibit and some lucky fans met him there. The official Grey’s Instagram account posted a photo of Justin as well a couple of fans. Check out the photos below.

For those wanting to visit the exhibit, it’s open today and tomorrow (last day!) from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. at 631 N. Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

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★ To celebrate Grey’s Anatomy reaching its milestone 15th season and tying E.R. as one of the longest-running hospital dramas on TV, Entertainment Weekly is featuring six special collectors covers with the cast of the show this week (on stands this Friday).

Check out the gorgeous cover Justin shares with costar Camilla Luddington below. The full-sized version can be seen in this album, where I’ll also be adding scans of the magazine when it’s out.

The other covers can be seen HERE. In addition, everyday until the Grey’s premiere on Sept. 27, EW will post more things as part of their special #7DaysofGreys series.

 
★ Along with the covers, EW also posted another photo of Justin and Camilla (can be seen in full size in this album) and there’s a quote from him about shooting the pilot episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
What’s cool about this is that Justin shot the pilot the last week of Sept. 2004, and 14 years later, in the last week of Sept. 2018, he’s on the cover of EW celebrating the show reaching its 15th season milestone.😎 Check out what he said below.

Justin Chambers (Dr. Alex Karev) and Camilla Luddington (Dr. Jo Wilson)

Chambers still remembers how he felt while shooting the Grey’s pilot. “Nerves, definitely nerves,” he recalls. “I was with all these other actors, I didn’t know anybody, and I was hoping the show would be a success and thank God it worked out.”
Luddington, who came much later, spent her first day “geeking out” in Meredith’s house “when I wasn’t supposed to be there. We weren’t even shooting and I just kind of crept on and investigated everything, because I was a fan of the show. So my first memories of being on set was even before we started filming anything and I was sneaking into Meredith’s house.”

 
★ EW posted the following two videos featuring the cast. In this first video, the cast talks about the show’s fans and there is some BTS footage from the cover shoot.

 
★ In this video, the cast has some fun taking EW’s “Which Grey’s Anatomy Character Are you?” quiz. You can take the quiz HERE.

★ ABC finally released the poster for season 15 of Grey’s Anatomy. Click on the image below to see the poster in full size.

 
★ Justin made another post on his Instagram account, and this time it’s about one of his best friends, Monte Hale. Check out the sweet caption he wrote.