Has "Grey's" jumped the shark, or has Ms. Rimes been spending too much time working up her Addison spinoff?There have been at least two cases where a character whose name was in the title have died: "Chico and the Man," in which Freddie Prinze's unfortunate death caused them to scramble to bring in a new "Chico", and "Valerie's Family," in which Valerie Harper banked on just the point you were making and held out for more money or creative control or whatever, and found her character dead and the show renamed.
That said, I certainly understand and agree with your point: The number one show on TV is not going to kill off their title character unless she pulls a Britney Spears or something. In fact, I'd find the whole cliffhanger much more compelling if it involved Dr. Burke, a character whose actor has caused the producers much embarrassing publicity recently. You could see them killing off Burke, but not Meredith.
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