Two actors thought to want off of “Grey’s Anatomy” saw their characters near death at the end of Thursday’s season finale, the Associated Press reports. Katherine Heigl’s Izzie Stephens appeared dead after surgery to remove brain cancer and T.R. Knight’s George O’Malley turned out to be the disfigured patient who pulled a woman from the path of a bus only to be hit himself and suffer what might have been fatal injuries. But USA Today warns that on “Grey’s” “people have often gone into the light only to saunter back out again.” Series creator Shonda Rhimes tells almost all to Entertainment Weekly.
—Jon Lafayette