ABC scored big TV ratings numbers on Thursday night thanks to the Station 19-Greys Anatomy crossover.

The first part of the two-hour crossover delivered a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 7 million total viewers, which represents a series high for Station 19. Part 2 built on its lead-ins rating, scoring a 1.4 and 6.6 million total viewers, a season 16 high for the Ellen Pompeo-led series. Krista Vernoff, who runs both shows, broke down how she and the writers managed to pull off the crossover withVariety.

A Million Little Things capped off the night for ABC with a 0.8 and 4.2 million viewers, meaning the network finished comfortably above its rivals with a 1.1 average rating and just under 6 million averaged viewers.

Fox came second, with the series premiere of Outmatched scoring a 0.7 rating and 3.2 million total viewers, which is about on par with most other scripted debuts this season. Last Man Standing led the network with a 0.8 and 4.4 million total viewers, with freshman drama Deputy scoring a 0.5 and 3.2 million pairs of eyeballs. That represents a small tick down for the Stephen Dorff series, which scored a 0.6 and 3.7 million viewers last episode.

Almost all of NBCs Thursday night lineup was up a fraction week-to-week, with Superstore coming in at a 0.7 and 2.7 million total viewers, followed by The Good Place with a 0.6 and 2.1 million. Will & Grace rallied from a 0.4 and 2.1 million viewers last time around to a 0.5 and 2.3 million viewers for this episode, while Perfect Harmony remained even at a 0.3 and 1.4 million. A Law & Order: SVU replay capped off the night with a 0.4 and 2.4 million viewers.

CBS aired only replays other than Gayle Kings Grammy Special in the 10 p.m. slot which scored a 0.3 rating and 2.6 million viewers. Reruns of Young Sheldon, The Unicorn, Young Sheldon again, and Mom came in at a 0.7, a 0.4, a 0.5 and a 0.5 respectively.

Over on the CW, Supernatural was down a little on last week, posting a 0.2 and just over 1 million total viewers. Legacies followed that up with a 0.2 and 720,000 total viewers, even on last episode.

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Quite frankly, the Greys AnatomyStation 19 crossover romance between Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) and Vic Hughes (Barrett Doss) surprised everyone. Jackson just broke off his serious relationship with Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary). Meanwhile, Vic is still grieving her fianc, Lucas Ripley (Brett Tucker), who died in season 2 of the spinoff series. Now, it seems like Jackson and Vics relationship is heating up in Greys Anatomy, but how will their time together affect Station 19? The third season premieres midseason, and a lot is going to happen.

Following the Greys Anatomy Season 16 premiere, showrunner Krista Vernoff shared her thoughts on Vic and Jacksons blossoming relationship. And it seems Vernoff believes their painful pasts pushed them together.

I think that its human behavior, the showrunner revealed to Entertainment Tonight. Often we comfort ourselves with something new when weve been through something painful. It happens with great frequency and Im interested in exploring the edges of human behavior.

Vernoff also explained how Jackson and Vics romance will move forward in the 16th season of Greys Anatomy, pointing out that it will be a slow build. But, as per usual, it will be messy.

The decision-making around it was a gut feeling, Vernoff said. It was just a gut feeling. I knew that it was time for Maggie and Jackson to break up at the end of last season.

I took over Station 19 and was looking at all the moving pieces and I just had a feeling about these two, she continued. And so, we tried it and the whole storyline is exciting to me. The complexity of it all is really interesting. Its been a long time since Greys had a break-up this messy.

With Vernoffs gut feeling decision to put two unlikely characters together, its easy to see why everyone was surprised by the match. But, hey, unpredictability is why fans love Station 19 and Greys Anatomy, right? Regardless, even Doss was shocked by the romance between Jackson and Vic in the flagship series.

It was a total surprise to me, Doss told ET. I think that its a really interesting pairing actually, and Im as excited as everyone else is to see where it goes. But, I was totally surprised.

That said, the actress is intrigued by Vics growth following Ripleys death. Shes also ready to see how her Station 19 character deals with her romance with Jackson.

There has been a time jump, Doss said of the Greys Anatomy premiere episode. But whats so cool about the way that this romance has started to play out, is that were really only seeing part of it.

Nevertheless, Doss is also ready to dive into Station 19. And when speaking with ET, she teased whats to come when the ABC show returns in 2020.

Im excited for when Station 19 picks up again and you get to see Vics experience of this relationship from her point of view, if that is where its going.

So where will Jackson and Vics relationship be once Greys Anatomy reaches midseason and Station 19 picks up? It looks like Doss doesnt know if the couple is still together or broken up by the to-be-determined premiere. And the actress noted Station 19 production is still in its early days.

I have no idea where this storylines going honestly and Im excited to see. But I think we do get to see more of how shes dealing with the loss of Ripley in context to Station 19, the actress told ET. And then, how this experience with Jackson has taken her by surprise. Whether or not it actually continues, we dont know yet; I dont even know yet.

But, even if we dont know the fate of Vic and Jackson when Station 19 returns, fans will likely see some closure for Vic.

Youll definitely see Vic dealing with the aftermath of her loss [following Ripleys death] and how that impacts her in a day-to-day way, Doss said. Theres a lot of stuff to look forward to but we do get to see Vics point of view. And more of her internal life as we start our season. So maybe itll give people some of what theyre looking for.

Unfortunately, Doss didnt reveal whats going to happen between Jackson and Vic in the upcoming episodes of Greys Anatomy. However, the actress did reveal theres still plenty to look forward to for Vic when Station 19 returns next year with or without the crossover romance.

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'Anatomy of an AI System,' an infographic map and research project by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Beazley Design of the Year. The project explores the social and environmental impact of owning a voice assistant device - including the amount of human labour, data and resources that are required during the lifespan of just one device.

Taking the Amazon Echo as an example, the project includes a visual diagram illustrating the global impact of an AI device across its lifetime. It investigates the three main parts required to build and operate a voice assistant - from the environmental effects of extracting rare earth metals and the wide disparity in workers' income, to the data that these devices can gather without the users' knowledge.

Some of the key information highlighted by designers includes the disparity in wages between a CEO from the industry, earning up to $275 million US dollars a day to a child miner, who would need to work approximately 700,000 years to earn the same amount. The project questions whether the convenience provided by these devices is worth their social and environmental consequences.

Other winners include MUJI and Sensible 4's 'self-driving' bus for all weather conditions, Korean-influenced sportswear by Jin Won Choi in collaboration with Adidas and CATCH, a low cost HIV detector. MySleeve, an add-on to make crutches more comfortable, received the 'People's Choice' award.

Name: adidas Originals by Ji Won ChoiDesigners: Ji Won Choi in collaboration with adidas

Name: Maya Somaiya LibraryDesigners: Sameep Padora and Associates

Name: Anatomy of an AI SystemDesigners: Kate Crawford of AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler

Name: Amorepacific architectural brandingDesigners: Sascha Lobe at Pentagram with L2M3

Name: CATCH: The HIV DetectorDesigners: Hans Ramzan

Name: GACHA Self-driving Shuttle BusDesigners: MUJI and Sensible 4

Name: MySleeveDesigners: Marie Van den Broeck

The six category winners along with the 70 other nominations are on display at the Design Museum through February 9, 2020.

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The new season will introduction will likely be the last Thursday in September 2020

Season 16 of Grays Anatomy is only starting. However, with all of the movements at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital most importantly, Meredith Gray was ended in the wake of being caught for insurance distortion we understand what Grays fans are thinking at present: Is this the completion of the show?

Even though her characters future in Seattle is alluding to, Ellen Pompeo has officially energized her understanding through 2020, which means Grays Anatomy is delving in for the long stretch for one more season.

TBD. Given past seasons, the new season will introduction will likely be the last Thursday in September 2020. In case ABC continues with their TGIT lineup, the helpful sensation will be trailed by its sister to show up.

Per Pompeos latest game plan with ABC, the performer is set apart on for the seventeenth season. Valuable thing since ABCs diversion supervisor Kerry Burke explained that Grays Anatomy wouldnt continue without the shows lead on-screen character.

This comes just a single year after Pompeo referenced that she was scanning for a change. Ahead of season 16, the on-screen character uncovered to Entertainment Weekly that shes feeling like were landing toward the completion of the accounts that weve told and what we can tell.

Were hypothesizing that the majority of Grays fans contradict this thought. Given how that season 16 started with an impact (Meredith was ending from the crisis center! Amelia is pregnant!), its a shield to expect that the accompanying season will be comparable as earth-shattering.

As Vernoff puts it, the back and forth movement season is perplexed and stacked with catastrophe, job changes, and noteworthy moves in facility organization. Its hard for me to state who anyone should pull perhaps in help.

I trust its a human, tangled, complicated season, she uncovered to TV Guide. While the focal points are as yet dubious, Pompeo, who happens to be one of the shows producers, promises to continue relating to quality stories.

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Left, Gabriella Boyds Very inadequately dressed I am making my way from a ground floor flat up the stairs to a higher floor 2015; and, right, Untitled (Woman with Black Line) by Jo Ann Callis. Composite: Courtesy: the artists and Folio Society/Freud's Interpreting Dreams/White Cube; Rose Gallery

The word surrealism was coined by the poet Apollinaire a century ago, and refers above all to an art of juxtaposition, the concatenation of shockingly disparate elements, shorn of context, with the slippery, succinct logic of a bad dream. Little wonder it was Merriam-Websters word of 2016, owing to above average online searches.

Early surrealists sought to plunder unconscious forces; inevitably, sex was the main energy supplier. What this meant in practice was a prevalence of womens bodies, appropriated and dismembered. Voiceless, limbless, headless, the surrealist woman reaches her apogee in Magrittes The Rape, in which a face is formed from a torso, with breasts for eyes and a pubic grin.

This isnt to say that female artists havent found surrealism a productive field to plough, as the dizzyingly beautiful Dreamers Awake makes clear. A sublime survey of more than 50 female artists, from Dorothea Tanning and Louise Bourgeois to Hannah Wilke and Tracey Emin, the exhibition riffs artfully around what it means to live inside rather than gaze upon a female form.

A body is disgusting as well as desirable, meat incarnate, an animated corpse. Its hateful to be reduced to flesh, but there may be compensatory pleasures in the butchers shop. In Rachel Kneebones extraordinary sculptures, human and floral forms entwine and interbreed, the cool austerity of porcelain at odds with the frenzy displayed. Its like peering into a primordial soup full of synchronised swimmers. Is that a side of beef, a stamen, a penis, a hydrangea, a human thigh?

Bodies undergo translations, and they also leak and shed. Hair is everywhere: a sleek blonde ponytail worn as a fetishistic tie; a cheery tuft of pubic hair abandoned on a garden chair. Like dreamers, surrealists love visual puns. Best is Helen Chadwicks witty I Thee Wed: a set of five tumescent vegetables sea cucumbers? cacti? cast in bronze, each bound at the root with a ginger fur cuff, a lascivious ring. Sarah Lucas is likewise killer at the lewd eye-gag. In The Kiss, one chair penetrates another, cartoonishly embellished with tits and cock made from neatly bent and glued Camel cigarettes, ready-made for the post-coital puff.

You can laugh at the absurdity of human figures and the ways we think about them, but that doesnt erase their capacity to horrify. One of the oldest works here is a bleak little photograph by Lee Miller. It shows a stomach-churning place-setting photographed in Paris in 1921: checked cloth, knife and fork, and a human breast on a plate, the bloody remnant of a mastectomy. As a model and muse for Man Ray, Miller had been subject to all the customary visual dismemberments of the surreal gaze; now she shows what slicing into flesh actually looks like.

Not everyone born as a woman wants to stay there. The trans photographer Claude Cahuns subversive self-portraits show her in multiple disguises, slipping the knot of gender, refusing to participate. Cahun died in 1954, but its not hard to see why she has resurfaced this year, appearing in Queer British Art at Tate Britain, a show at the National Portrait Gallery with Gillian Wearing and in a new biography, Exist Otherwise (Reaktion).

The US conceptual artist Hannah Wilke is likewise deft at finding ambiguities in even the crudest physical depictions. Her Five Androgynous and Vaginal Sculptures are much more subtle than the title suggests. Humble as Etruscan jars, they delight in the abstract possibilities of human anatomy.

Hybridisation was always a surrealist strategy, visible in some of the earliest as well as more contemporary exponents here. The one-time debutante Leonora Carrington deployed surrealism as a means of escape, a launch pad to a liberatory landscape populated by monsters and beasts. In 1980, the year before her suicide, Francesca Woodman took an eerie, beguiling photograph of her upraised arms in birch-bark gauntlets: an Angela Carter figure at loose in the New Hampshire woods, girl metamorphosing into tree.

The best surrealist work possesses this uncanny dream logic, the feeling of a revelation barely glimpsed in the dark. One of the more compelling dream manifestations here is Kelly Akashis Well(-)Hung. A rope dangles from the ceiling, hung at intervals with bronze casts of hands. Are they ascending or trapped, the macabre relics of some medieval punishment? A few clutch small clammy objects, like sea anemones or jellies.

This enigmatic tone continues in Gabriella Boyds lovely indefinite paintings, made to illustrate the Folio Society edition of Freuds Interpreting Dreams. Nothing quite makes sense; there is a delicious sense of anticipation, of luminosity. Grass grows beneath running water, a pair of legs are stippled with black dots. The caption explains that this depicts a girls dream of her brother, slathered in caviar. Deliciously mortal, the body is ground for dreaming still.

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A new romance might be in the air when Greys Anatomy returns.

After the season 13 finale hinted at a potential romance for Jackson (Jesse Williams) and Maggie (Kelly McCreary), fans of the ABC medical drama have spent the hiatus wondering if Japril is out and Jaggie Mackson? is in. April (Sarah Drew) pointed out the potential in the finale, telling Maggie she believes her ex-husband and the cardio doc who grew close when Jackson treated Maggies dying mother have feelings for one another.

What April said to her literally had not crossed her mind, so I think its a question shes grappling with whether theres any truth to that, and if there is, what to do with it, and if theres not, how to manage if theres truth for Jackson in that, McCreary tells EW. Shes on fertile ground trying basically to find out whether April was onto something shes unaware of.

When Greys Anatomy returns this fall, the series will pick up right where the finale left off following the hospital explosion, which means Aprils words will still be ringing in Maggies ears. So, will Maggie take a shot with Jackson? The truth is that still remains to be seen, McCreary says. Whats ironic is that all of the reasons the fans might not want Jackson and Maggie to get together are the exact things that make really great drama. Thats true of life, too, the stuff that makes things a little bit messier is the stuff we think we dont want, but ultimately makes us stronger, so if thats where it goes, then theres probably good story to mine and good lessons to teach there about humanity and god knows what else.

And if it doesnt go there, McCreary continues, theres still so much potential in that relationship because Jackson and Maggie havent spent a lot of meaningful time together, April and Maggie havent spent a lot of meaningful time together those are new relationships that are absolutely as worthy of exploration as Amelia and Maggie and Meredith and Maggie, so why not?

Greys Anatomy returns with a two-hour premiere on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Giants.com's John Schmeelk takes an X's and O's look at some key plays from Giants vs. Cowboys in 2016:

Every NFL season is new, but teams as familiar with one another as the Giants and Cowboys can look back at prior matchups to find tendencies.

Surprisingly, the Giants were actually in third-and-6 or fewer yards eight of their 14 opportunities. The point isnt to review plays the team didnt make last year, but rather to show how many big plays could be available to the team on Sunday night if they can put themselves into third and manageable distance.

The Cowboys had both of their safeties positioned deep for much of the game, but many times on third and manageable they would either line up in single high or go to man-to-man with one safety deep after the snap. It presented the Giants with opportunities to make plays down the field.

Heres a third-and-three in the first quarter. Jeff Heath came down after the snap putting, Odell Beckham Jr. one-on-one with Brandon Carr. He beats him deep but cant come up with a catch that could have been a touchdown

On a third-and-six, Barry Church comes down, leaving Beckham one-on-one with Carr once again, but pressure on Manning forced him to check down to Rashad Jennings.

Heres a third-and-two from the fourth quarter with only Jeff Heath lined up single high pre-snap. They completed the pass to the bottom of the screen to Beckham for the first down, but look at the big play that could have been made to Sterling Shepard, who had beaten Orlando Scandrick in the slot.

On a second down play, the Giants successfully took advantage of Byron Jones coming down, creating space for Odell Beckham Jr. to catch this slant and take it to the house for a 61-yard touchdown.

The variables are the personnel changes that both teams made in the offseason. The Cowboys are far less experienced in the secondary with the losses of Barry Church, J.J. Wilcox, Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne. Their young secondary players -- second round pick Chidobe Awuzie, third round pick Jourdan Lewis, and sixth round pick Xavier Woods -- have all missed a significant amount of time with injuries this offseason. Veteran Nolan Carrol and second-year corner Anthony Brown will likely join Orlando Scandrick as the top three cornerbacks, with Byron Jones and Jeff Heath as the starting safeties.

The Giants, on the other hand, have added weapons in Brandon Marshall and Evan Engram. The way the Giants call plays might change. How will the presence of two more big playmakers on the field affect how the Cowboys might run their third down defense? Both coaching staffs are likely spending this week trying to determine exactly how the other team is going to play with their new players so they can scheme properly for Sunday night.

However they adjust, both teams will be hoping to have more success on third down this week, and in the Giants case, some more big plays as well. The Giants only play of 20 yards or more in that game was Beckhams touchdown. There were chances for more big plays. The Giants will ty to take advantage of those opportunities on Sunday night.

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DEAR ABBY: I recently had to spend a night in the hospital following minor surgery. One of the female techs taking care of me leaned over me to straighten out the bedding and I could see "everything" when the top of her scrubs fell open.

I'm not sure if it was on purpose or by accident. I say this because after the first time, it happened several more times. I only looked the first time out of shock. The other times, I looked away.

Other than saying, "Hey, lady, I can see your boobies when you bend over," what's the polite way to say, "Oops - wardrobe malfunction"?

- Got An Eyeful in Illinois

DEAR GOT AN EYEFUL: Since, with luck, you won't have to make another visit to the hospital, I think your question may be moot. However, the discreet way to deal with something like that would be to mention what happened to the head nurse or supervisor and say that it made you uncomfortable.

Secrets in her past could taint your future

DEAR ABBY: I'm in my early 30s and recently met a very attractive woman my age. We are planning to get married. She wants us to be married as soon as possible because she has been divorced for the last seven years.

My problem is, she's extremely secretive about her past, especially the period between her divorce and our meeting. I have been open with her about my past, but when I ask about hers, she refuses to discuss it and says it has nothing to do with our relationship.

I have a feeling there may be something nasty she's hiding. I'm afraid I'm heading into a trap, but my love for her makes it tough to consider breaking up. Am I being too demanding?

- Concerned Guy in the South

DEAR CONCERNED GUY: If your intuition is screaming that your girlfriend's desire for a hasty marriage could spell trouble in the future, you should pay close attention to it. It is not "too demanding" to want to know what one's fiancee has been doing for the last seven years. Under no circumstances should you marry this woman without first talking to a lawyer, who I am sure will suggest doing a background check and/or drafting an ironclad prenuptial agreement.

Bridal shower gift: It's thoughts that count?

DEAR ABBY: I recently attended a bridal shower for my nephew's fiancee. My sister-in-law (the future mother-in-law of the bride) also attended the shower. She did not choose any gifts from the bride's registry, but decided instead to give the bride lingerie, including thong underwear. Frankly, I was shocked. I didn't think it was appropriate for either the mother or the future mother-in-law to give such intimate gifts. Am I wrong?

- Flummoxed in Florida

DEAR FLUMMOXED: Shower guests are not restricted to items based solely upon the couple's registry. They can give whatever gift they wish to the bride and groom. Your sister-in-law chose something she thought the bride and groom would enjoy. Please try to be less judgmental and hope she was right.

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Six secondsis all it takes to undo 90 minutes of good work.

A fraction of a second can undo six seconds.

Philadelphia Unions Andre Blake got it all right with his fantastic late save Saturday to secure Philadelphia Unions 1-0 win over D.C. United.

Here is video of the save with two alternate angles.

When a goalkeeper makes an amazing save, there was usually a defensive breakdown somewhere along the line that led to it.

Here, Gaddis and Bedoya have a miscommunication, allowing an uncontested cross. Jack Elliott is marking nobody. Medunjanin is upright and behind the play, taking himself out of the play. Thats four of the seven defenders here.

Sapong defends the late runner, tracking all the way back. Wijnaldum fights for position with the back man. Onyewu gets in the ready position between the ball and the target men.

Andre Blake leans to the near post, defending it from a surprise shot and getting in good position to smother a low/close cross before it reaches the target men.

With the cross in the air, there are now three defenders against three attackers.

This leaves two men free for the header against Blake.

Blake recognizes that the out-swinger is floating too far outside the box for him to get to and immediately starts to sink back to the goal line, keeping his eyes on the play in front of him and maintaining ready position as he retreats.

Blake does two very difficult things here.

At the time the shot is struck, Blakes heels are just about on the goal line. Most importantly for Blake, his weight is on his left foot and he is on his toes. He is anticipating a shot to his right, and by putting his weight on his left foot, he is ready to dive hard and fast to his right.

This is why it is so key for Blake to read the players rather than the ball. Blake was able to cut out half of the net by keying on the head movement. Heading an out-swinger to the far side of the net would have required a head whip that Blake never saw. Unlike the penalty save, which required a guess, Blake was not guessing on this shot. He read the player and was able to identify where the shot could go.

The alternate angle shows just how free the header was and just how out of position the Union defenders were. Its also a little easier to see Blake already leaning hard to his right. Thats as free as a header gets, and from about 7.5 yards out.

These saves are practically impossible. Lamar Neagle knows that if he puts the shot on frame with power, it is going in unless he strikes it directly into Blake. Even a foot or two away from where his body already is and theres no time to react.

Lamar Neagle does his job perfectly. He heads it on frame, with power, high and to the side of Blake. Easy goal.

Enter Superman.

Words cant describe just how insanely hard this save is. If this were the Olympics, Blake would get a 10 for degree of difficulty alone. Keepers just dont save power headers from that range. This save may have been Blakes best ever, and that is not hyperbole. It shows off the full range of Blakes tools: his height and length, his athletic ability, his instincts, his reaction speed, and his hand strength.

Blake prepared properly. He got to the right spot and got in the ready position leaning the correct direction. As the ball is struck, he uncoils and contorts his body and gets his hand way up above his head in about a quarter of a second.

Despite the ball going to his right, Blake reaches to it with his left because of his ready position. He was ready to dive right, which puts his left hand high, so he used momentum to get his hand there in time. He arches his body to get his feet on the line but his body in front of it. This means that the core of his body is providing almost no strength to his arm here. His hand finds the ball perfectly and he is strong enough to power it up over the bar from no more than a foot or two in front of it. This is Andre Blakesweak hand getting to the ball and staying strong enough to knock it almost straight up. Truly unbelievable.

Brick Wall Blake, indeed.

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Why do we man hug? Is it simply to fill the gap left by the now pass formality of the all-purpose handshake? Or do we bro hug for some more profound,evolutionary reason;amammalian urge to be squeezed that,liberated fromold fashionedgender conventions,has risen like a phoenix from the ashes in the playbook of male behaviours?

The short answer is: nobody knows.Man hugging remains ariddlewrapped in a mysteryinside an enigma, and searching for itscausation is probablythe social and biologicalsciences' next great frontier; theirFermat's last theorum, or Pandora's box.

Perhaps we'll never solve it, but what wecanhope to decipheris just how to go about achieving a good one. And by good one we mean a hug that doesn't leave you feeling like a twonk in front of an assembled crowd of onlookers.

Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and U.S President Donald Trump made a splash yesterday by going full throttle with a no-holds-barred man hug during a joint press conference.

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Background: Lake founded Stitch Fix, an online personal styling and shopping service for women, in 2011, but by mid-2013 was having trouble finding new capital. Existing seed investor Lightspeed didn't want to lead the new round, in part due to shell-shock from consumer-focused commerce disappointments like ShoeDazzle and LivingSocial. Many others also passed, until Benchmark Capital expressed interest in leading what would become a $12 million round.

At around the same time, however, Lake had told Lightspeed about the alleged harassment by Caldbeck and asked that he be removed as a board observer. Lightspeed agreed to do so, but Lake also knew that it could effectively block the Benchmark investment. Lake was asked to sign a non-disparagement agreement against Lightspeed and its partners, which she did on August 13, 2013.

Lightspeed also would sell a portion of its shares in the company which now may be valued at $4 billion in an IPO into the Benchmark transaction, although it's unclear if that was related to Lake's allegations or a byproduct of Benchmark's minimum ownership requirements.

Caldbeck would formally leave Lightspeed the following spring, in order to form Binary Capital.

Below is the non-disparagement agreement (apologies for the low resolution), which is contained in a larger file related to the Benchmark funding. It was provided to Axios by someone with access to that file:

Axios and The Information had previously reported that a Lightspeed founder had told the firm of Caldbeck's alleged misbehavior, but had not identified Lake nor her company. Recode today was first to publicly name her, and received this statement from Lake:

"It's important to expose the type of behavior that's been reported in the last few weeks, so the community can recognize and address these problems."

A Lightspeed spokeswoman declined comment, beyond the firm's tweets on the matter.

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The thumb: a cornerstone of Pandora and probably the image most associated with the company. The thumb is personal; giving a song a thumb is a signal that a listener likes a song and wants to hear it again. The thumb is communal, too. Pandora looks at that thumb and wants to know if users with similar tastes and listening history might like the song, too. Its the music streaming equivalent of tracking nationwide, word-of-mouth buzz through one-on-one interviews.

Rapper PnB Rock gets thumbs. The Philadelphia-based artist had 6.3 million of them through the week ending June 18th, according to metrics available at Next Big Sound. That week alone his listeners thumbed his songs 255,000 times. In terms of thumbing, PnB Rock ranked in the 100th percentile of artists tracked by Next Big Sound.

One song in particular has generated nearly half of PnB Rocks spins. After 11 months on Pandora, the single Selfish reached #34 on the Pandora Top Spins chart, putting him in the company of Good Life by Kelhani with G-Easy and Post Malone and Scared to be Lonely by Dua Lips & Martin Garrix. As of June 18th, Selfish, written about his jealousy in a short-lived relationship, had 53.3 million spins, according to Next Big Sound.

The song connected, says Nima Etminan of EMPIRE Distribution, which jointly released both the track and PnB Rocks debut album, GTTM: Goin Through The Motions, with Atlantic Records. If you ever go to a show, he has really intense fans. Theyre singing every single word.

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What stands out about PnB Rocks popularity on Pandora is its consistent trajectory. When plotted on a graph, daily spins of his entire catalogthey now total more than 123 millioncreate nearly a straight line, suggesting the kind of organic growth that results from the positive feedback of Pandora listeners. There hasnt been huge jumps or steep declines. Just steady growth, as if word of his music was passing from one friend to another.

Before hitting the Pandora Top Spins chart, PnB Rock reached #2 on Next Big Sounds October 7th Trendsetters chart, a ranking of individual, up-and-coming artistsnot a particular songthat takes into account Pandora spins, social followings and streams at YouTube and Vevo. (Pandoras Top Spins chart tracks the performance of individual songs on the service.) He has certainly done well on social media: 739,000 Instagram followers; 401,000 YouTube subscribers; 117,000 followers on Facebook; and 189,000 Twitter followers. But those numbers are easily topped by his 1.1 million artist stations at Pandora (those Pandora stations which use PnB Rock songs to build a stations playlist and recommend songs by him and similar artists).

PnB Rock is a story of success at Pandora especially and online generally. His spins on Pandora spins blow away his broadcast radio audience. From the date PnB Rock peaked on the Trendsetters Chart to his high mark on the Pandora Top Spins chart, his total Pandoras audience was 83.9 million (thats his number of spins), 51.7 million more than his entire broadcast radio audience, as measured by Nielsen BDS. In fact, his daily broadcast radio audience exceeded his daily Pandora spins just 14 times since August 22ndremarkable since Pandoras share of music listening is about 16 percent of AM/FM radios share (8.4 percent to 53.9 percent), according to Edison Research. Hes done well in the digital world and especially well at Pandora.

This is also a story about steady, organic, bottom-up growth, not the top-down growth that comes when industry gatekeepers decide to get behind an artist. PnB Rock has had consistent growth in spins of his entire catalog. In contrast, his broadcast radio audience had the usual spikes that come from program directors decisions to put a song into rotation. Sharp gains in broadcast radio audienceclearly seen on the chartcame from CBS Stations in February, Cumulus Radio in April and spins in some large markets including Boston, Miami, San Jose and Tampa.

Whether or not an artist succeeds is ultimately up to listeners. No amount of radio adds, press or Instagram posts can make a listener a fan. Fans decide on their own which artists they relate to who they want to hear. That goes for both superstars and young, hungry, but practically unknown artists. Good music tends to be heard eventually. PnB Rock has done increasingly well at Pandora simply because listeners liked his music. Thats worth a thumb or two.

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Welcome to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from the previous weeks Columbus Crew SC match.

For Match 18 of the 2017 MLS Season, we take a look at Kekuta Mannehs 70th minute goal that put Crew SC up 2-1 as part of a 4-1 win over Montreal Impact on Saturday.

Heres a look at the finish from the Columbus winger.

Until Mannehs goal, his first in Black & Gold, Crew SC looked listless after a good start to the match. Federico Higuain opened up the scoring for Columbus in the 17th minute, but the home side gave up a quick equalizer and appeared set for another disappointing match with a blown lead. Luckily that didnt happen.

Full disclosure, this goal is not the most technical Crew SC has scored, but it does provide a few interesting moments of skill. Specifically a moment of either individual brilliance or pure luck by Ola Kamara. The aim here is to spend a chunk of this Anatomy of a Goal showing that Kamara did intend to settle the ball into the path of Manneh rather than inadvertently settling the ball for his teammate.

Mannehs game winner begins with a Jonathan Mensah headed clearance to Higuain. As the headed ball floats toward the Argentinian, Manneh begins his run right by Montreal wing-back Hassoun Camara.

In the magnified circle, you can just see that Higuains head is turned toward Manneh as he tries to wrangle a difficult bounce. Higuain can see Manneh making his run against the much slower Camara.

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In the above video, you can see Columbus No. 10 display a deft bit of skill to juggle the ball over the defender and send a perfect one-time ball into the path of the streaking Manneh. The Crew SC attacker is in incredible form having scored five goals in his last four matches.

As Manneh chases down the ball, hidden just behind Camara, he has beaten his man and only has Wandrille Lefevre between him and the goal. At this point, Manneh has not yet put a touch on the ball.

As Lefevre begins to close him down, Manneh chests the ball forward, his first touch of the game, which is just a bit too heavy and will allow Lefevre to get in front of him.

The ball continues forward and Lefevre uses his body to take Manneh out of the play just outside the 18-yard box. Manneh doesnt fall, though he arguably would have been given the foul call had he gone to the ground.

Camara recovers on the ball and should be able to clear it forward. Just to his right, Manneh gets around Lefevres screen. Kamara continues his run at pace, heading right for the ball and Camara.

Under little pressure, Camara cant get turned quickly enough and loses the ball off of his right shin. Both Manneh and Kamara continue their runs, looking to punish Montreal for Camaras clumsy touch.

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Finally, we are at the point where this goal gets interesting. In the above video, Kamara looks to clumsily misplay the ball conveniently into the path of Manneh. After closer examination, its clear that Kamara fakes a shot with his left foot and intentionally settles for his teammates first goal. Lets look at Kamaras touch in stills and a few more angles.

From the broadcast camera, you can just see Kamara slow the ball with his right, trailing, foot as an unmarked Manneh looks on.

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From a slightly different angle, you can see Kamara swing his left foot forward and catch the ball with his right foot. On first glance, it looks like the Kamara misses his left -footed shot and incidentally catches the ball with his right, trailing, foot. Two pieces of evidence from this video suggest otherwise.

First, watch Kamaras head during this play. As he swings over the ball and touches it with his right foot, the Crew SC striker turns his head around to see where he left the ball. This looks like an intentional movement to watch the play that he has just set up.

Second, notice the movement of the ball in this and the remaining highlights. As Kamara touches the ball with his right foot, the ball travels back and to the left, slowing down right in the path of Manneh. Again, this looks like an intentional movement.

In the above image from the same angle, Kamara looks to be setting up a shot. He has a clear view of both Manneh and Camara. However, Kamara doesnt rotate his hips. From this angle, a shot would land somewhere between the left post and the corner flag. Kamara, who scored his 25th goal in just over a year and a half in Columbus on Saturday, is an expert at rotating his hips toward goal. Again, this is an intentional movement.

The above photo provides a better look at Kamaras flick back to Manneh. In this still, it appears that Kamara is swinging his right leg back and to the left, so his touch will send the ball near Manneh.

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Kamaras fake shot and deft touch stand out even more on this angle. In the above video you can see Kamara take a short windup as if hes going to shoot, and then clearly flick the ball back and to the left with his right foot. The motion of his right foot, a quick flick, is definitely not the motion of someone who has just whiffed on a shot.

Again, Kamara winds up for his shot. Slowed down and over-analyzed, its clear that Kamara will not shoot the ball. However, at speed, this shot is incredibly effective at freezing the defending Camara.

Here, Kamara watches his flick back and to the left into the path of Manneh. Once again, this is an intentional motion.

With the ball now at his feet. . .

Manneh buries the shot for his first goal of the season.

But wait!

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Another video has emerged, from Crew SCs Instagram account, that provides a clearer picture of Kamaras clever touch to Manneh. In the above video you can clearly see Kamara drag his left leg over the ball and then flick a pass back and to the left, right into the path of Manneh.

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Since Jan. 23, 2020,Greys Anatomyand Station 19 have almostweekly crossover eventsbetween the two shows. What this generally means is that the storylines blend with characters from one show appearing on the other.

However, fans are getting hostile about the many crossover events claiming that the producers of the shows are falsely advertising that the two shows are going to overlap.

The fire station show Station 19 is a spin-off to the ABC flagship series, Greys Anatomy. It began on Mar. 22, 2018 and is set in Seattle like the original show. The action-drama took star Jason George who portraysBen Warren from Greys Anatomy to star in the show that features the lives of the men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19.

Co-producer of the show Krista Vernoff explained in an interview that the writing team is doing its best to ensure that each episode is a stand-alone story. They do not want viewers to watch both shows if they dont want to.

Each hour of each show needs to be a whole story [by] itself,Vernoff told Variety. And when merged with the other show, when there are crossover elements, it needs to feel like, Oh, thats a bigger movie. So I had to make two-hour movies, [but] if you only watched [either the first or last] hour, you felt totally satisfied.

The writing team feels that you can watch either show and not be lost. However, there is a more cohesive picture if you watch both.

OMG, I just watched [Station 19] because I was bored, but literally, it had nothing that related to Greys, one fanwrote on Reddit. You would miss nothing if you didnt watch it, they basically stayed at the firehouse the whole episode. They had that face time with Carina, but do people even care for her; she is not a series regular.

Fans are outraged that every episode promo indicates that the shows are planning a crossover event. However, when they tune in to Station 19, they havent seen many of Greys Anatomys characters at all.

So annoyed tonights episode is yet another crossover, another fan added. If Station 19 cant stand on its own, they should let it go. Its taking valuable screen time from Greys. This season alone has issues. Stop dragging it down just for the sake of keeping another show on air. If its good enough, [Station 19] will succeed and find its own fan base.

Viewers dont like feeling pressured to watch both shows. However, when the promo indicates that there is a crossover event, they tune it to make sure they dont miss anything with their Greys Anatomy characters.

The spin-off is not the first for Greys Anatomy. In 2007, the medical drama Private Practice premiered, featuring the former Greys starKate Walshas the lead, Addison Montgomery Shepherd.

Greys Anatomy and Private Practice had a total of nine crossover events over the course of the six seasons that the spin-off was on air. In six years that means it happened less than two times per season.

For Station 19, there are four crossovers in the works for season 3 alone. The weekly promos also include both show names and clips from Greys Anatomy and Station 19.

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The chief of the Daesh group Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi purportedly appears for the first time in five years. AFP

US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of violent jihadist group Islamic State, died during an overnight raid led by U.S. military forces in Syria.

Here is a description of the raid according to Trump, who went into unusual detail during a national address broadcast from the White House.

* The United States began to receive intelligence on the whereabouts of Baghdadi around a month ago, including some "helpful" information from the Kurds, said Trump. U.S. intelligence officials were able to "scope out" his exact location two weeks ago, while Trump himself became aware of the planned raid three days ago. As part of the plan, the United States had to secure permission from Russia, Iraq and Turkey to fly over their airspace, according to Trump and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien. Trump said the White House did not disclose the nature of the operation to Russia, but told Russian officials they would "like" it.

* On Saturday, Trump arrived back at the White House at around 4:30 p.m. local time (10:30pm in Syria) after a round of golf in Virginia, according to his official schedule. At around 5 pm, he gathered in the White House Situation Room with Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, and other intelligence officials. They watched the raid unfold live "as if you were watching a movie," said Trump.

* Moments after they gathered, U.S. military personnel and military dogs lifted-off in eight helicopters from an unidentified military base in the Middle East, according to Trump. The personnel came from the Delta Force, one of the U.S. special units mainly focused on counter-terrorism and often deployed to capture high-value targets. A U.S. official told Reuters the operation was staged from an airbase in western Iraq. The on-the-ground operation in the Idlib region of Syria was supported by military aircraft and ships, said Trump. The operatives were also equipped with a military robot but did not ultimately use it.

* Upon approaching Baghdadi's compound, the helicopters came under gunfire but U.S. forces were able to quickly suppress the assault and land safely. Believing the main compound door to be booby trapped, they entered in just seconds by blasting through the wall, said Trump. "We were getting full reports on a minute-by-minute basis," he added.

* U.S. forces quickly cleared the compound "with people either surrendering or being shot and killed," said Trump. Eleven children were removed, uninjured, and taken into care by a third party whom the president declined to name. U.S. soldiers captured and later imprisoned several Islamic State fighters.

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* Baghdadi fled into a subterranean area of the complex and into a tunnel, dragging three of his young children with him. Esper told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that U.S. forces called for Baghdadi to surrender but the world's most wanted man refused. Chased by the dogs and confronted by a dead end, Baghdadi - "whimpering and crying and screaming," according to Trump - ignited his suicide vest, killing himself and his children and causing the tunnel to collapse. No military personnel were hurt although one dog was badly injured.

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* With Baghdadi's body "mutilated by the blasts," U.S. forces used a DNA test onsite to confirm his identity in around 15 minutes. "The test results gave certain, immediate and totally positive identification. It was him," said Trump. Speaking on NBC News' Meet The Press with Chuck Todd on Sunday, O'Brien said: "We were in the Situation Room. And the commander of the mission called and said, 100% confidence, jackpot."

* The soldiers proceeded to search the compound, taking "highly sensitive material" including information on Islamic State's origins and its future plans. In total, U.S. forces were in the compound for around two hours before flying back out via the same route they flew in.

* Baghdadi's body will be "disposed of properly," O'Brien said, adding that he expected it to be the same protocol followed in 2011 for Osama bin Laden. The al Qaeda leader was buried at sea after U.S. officials consulted with experts in Islamic law and ritual.

With a $25 million US bounty on his head, Al Baghdadi had been far less visible in recent years, releasing only sporadic audio recordings, including one just last month in which he called on members of the extremist group to do all they could to free Daesh detainees and women held in jails and camps.

The purported audio was his first public statement since last April, when he appeared in a video for the first time in five years.

In 2014, he was a black-robed figure delivering a sermon from the pulpit of Mosul's Great Mosque of Al-Nuri, his only known public appearance. He urged Muslims around the world to swear allegiance to the caliphate and obey him as its leader.

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Why Did Martin Henderson Leave 'Grey's Anatomy'? Find Out Why He Exited the Show AcceptBrowsers may block some cookies by default. Click accept to allow advertising partners to use cookies and serve more relevant ads. Visit our privacy policy page for more information.Source: Getty ImagesBy Samantha Faragalli Younghans

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Let's be honest. The only relevant love interest Meredith Grey ever had on Grey's Anatomy was Derek Shepherd. Okay, we're being dramatic. Nathan Riggs wasn't half bad. The steamy doctor was portrayed by actor Martin Henderson from 2015 until 2017, and since Mer has (sort of) moved on with her latest beau, Andrew DeLuca, it's been quite some time since we've seen Riggs around Seattle. So, why did Martin Henderson leave Grey's Anatomy two years ago? Scroll down to find out!

So it turns out, Martin Henderson left Grey's Anatomy back in 2017 after two years on the show because his contract on the series was up. That said, he wasn't too surprised by his departure.

"It doesnt work that way in Shondaland. Its handed down. If there are certain concerns or tweaks in a scene, the writers are open to hearing your thoughts and collaborating, but the direction of the major storyline is decided on high. I only had a short-term contract with the show," he previously told Deadline when he was asked if he had an inkling about his exit.

"This is my final year so I was expecting Nathans storyline to be wrapped up. Bringing in Megan and tying up loose ends, provided a reason," Martin continued at the time. "That was always intended when they brought Megan back with a twist. The triangle played out nicely, the way they gave perspective leading up to her disappearance, the mutual infidelity; the way it was handled was interesting. Its been a couple of fun years on the show."

In yet another shocking Grey's storyline, Riggs left Mer (and the show) when he was reunited with his former flame and Owen Hunt's sister, Megan Hunt, after she was missing for many years. The couple decided to leave Seattle and start a new life in California, and Mer, being Mer, was super supportive of the entire thing.

After fans were saddened by his abrupt exit, the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, released a touching statement explaining his departure. "I loved that we were able to give Riggs a happy ending worthy of his character and talent. As for Martin, this is not an ending for our relationship. He has been part of the Shondaland family since the pilot of Inside the Box and he will always be family. I cant wait to find a new project to work with him on in the future," she said at the time.

As of now, there has been no word of Martin returning to the halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (he's now on the show Virgin River). But upon his departure, he hinted that he may not be kissing the show goodbye for good. He told Deadline at the time: "I would never close the door. In my mind, its been left open-ended enough." Fingers crossed for a Riggs return!

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Carla Gugino has seen the headlines, too: femme fatale, screen siren, bombshell. I dont really relate to that much, she says, on a recent morning at a Manhattan cafe. Maybe an emotional bombshell.

Gugino, 48, has three decades of film, television and theatre under the belt of her high-waisted jeans. An actor of variety and intellect, who often channels sexuality like some high-voltage current, she is currently starring in Alice Birchs Anatomy of a Suicide at the Atlantic Theater. She is described in the play originally staged at the Royal Court in London in 2017 as the most beautiful thing Ive ever seen. In the cafe, in a stripy turtleneck and yesterdays mascara, her hair pulled into a funny sort of pompadour, bent over a cup of herbal tea (isnt that what all bombshells drink?), she arguably is.

If you know Gugino from childrens flicks (Spy Kids) or comic-book adaptations (Sin City, Watchmen) or disaster movies (San Andreas), you could be forgiven for wondering what she is doing in an avant garde off-Broadway drama. So here is what you should also know: in 2004, she made her Broadway debut, in Arthur Millers After the Fall, playing Maggie, the turbulent, unforgiving Marilyn Monroe-inspired role. I felt like I was home, she says. And from that moment, I realised, Oh, this is a huge. This has to be something I do for the rest of my life. She has returned to theatre every few years including in Eugene ONeills Desire Under the Elms, and in Athol Fugards The Road to Mecca. Seven years ago, she and her partner, the writer and director Sebastian Gutierrez, relocated to Manhattan. So when she does a play, she can usually walk to work.

Anatomy of a Suicide spoke to her, Gugino says, viscerally and intellectually. It simultaneously tracks three generations of women in three time periods (roughly: the 1970s, the 2000s, the 2030s), with many lines spoken in unison, which means that it demands extreme technical rigour. Playing a woman who wants to die makes emotional claims, too.

Its a really tricky place to live in, she says. Because it costs you, this play. And it should. She has been reading accounts of suicidal ideation and listening to podcast interviews, working toward someone who is always trying to crack life. She just cant. And I relate to that. Life is really hard, she says. All of us have those moments when you just dont know what your value is here and what the value of staying is, she says. So for me, there were personal elements. She just spoke to me, this woman.

Her character, Carol, has a perilous kind of magnetism. She fascinates people even or especially when she doesnt mean to. God we were all so in love with you in school, another character says. I know literally three girls who started smoking because you used to smoke. Guginos other current roles capitalise on that allure like Daisy, the thief she plays on the cable noir Jett (in televisual limbo now that Cinemax has killed its original programming division), or Stella, which she will act opposite Audra McDonalds Blanche and Bobby Cannavales Stanley in a Streetcar Named Desire revival this summer.

She calls sexuality a primal part of who we are and part and parcel of who I am and shes interested in exploring it in her work, she says, because as a woman, I find it to be a huge centre of our power that has been misused and misrepresented a lot of the time. (She doesnt quite put a movie like Sin City in that category, but she recognises that its sex scenes didnt come from character.) Still, she wished she werent asked about it quite so often because it speaks to a certain American puritanism. I find it so interesting that you can see a nipple shot off, but you cant see a woman walking from the bed to the bathroom naked without being commented on.

The violence in Anatomy of a Suicide is psychological, self-inflicted. Before each show, she prepares by running lines and listening to a piece of music that moves her closer to Carol, a lullaby of death, basically, she says. She and the rest of the cast take three breaths together, a ritual the director Lileana Blain-Cruz developed. After the show, the cast take three more breaths and then she plays a song that kind of brings me joy or makes me laugh or makes me want to dance, something to help her shake it off.

Every day, as she walks to work, she thinks about what she needs to accomplish that day, what her character will undergo. And I can feel, she says, that part of me thats like, Dont make me go there. But to know that she can? Exhilaration.

At the Atlantic theater, New York, until 15 March.

In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here.

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Eric Dane spent six seasons playing Dr. Mark Sloan onGreys Anatomy, but the actor says he barely watched any episodes of the hit ABC series. Ever.

In a recent interview with HuffPost at Build Series, Dane revealed, I watched three episodes of the show while I was on it. After all, he said, I was there when it happened, so I didnt need to see it.

So, its safe to say he doesnt keep up with the series now. But he does keep in touch with some of his former cast members, including Ellen Pompeo and Justin Chambers. Hes also still friendly with series creator Shonda Rhimes.

Shondas great, he said.Im still friends with her to this day. One thing that you do with Shonda is that you dont deviate. Thats one of the biggest lessons you learn is that you stick to the script.

Even though hes been off the series for five years now, Dane still gets called by his Greys nickname, McSteamy. But he doesnt seem to mind too much.

Ive been called a lot worse, he joked. It never did anything bad for me that nickname. So, I dont mind it ... Its not what Im doing now, so it does get a little tiring. But its not something that really upsets me.

Shortly after leaving Greys Anatomy Dane jumped into another big role. He currently stars as Tom Chandler in TNTs The Last Ship, which returns for Season 4 on Sunday. The series follows what happens after a global catastrophe wipes out the bulk of the population. Danes character a Navy captain faced a series of changes at the end of the last season. Season 4 will pick up where that storyline left off.

Tom Chandler left the Navy after doing something that he felt was morally way against everything he stood for. And hes in a self-imposed exile, Dane said.

Chandler is now in Greece living the life of a fisherman, and Dane says its only a matter of time before he finds some trouble, as he tends to do.

Tom Chandler has to find his way back into the Navy, into the fray, Dane said.

Dane says he really enjoys playing the character and can relate to some of the conflict Chandler experiences on the show. But unlike Greys Anatomy,starring in The Last Ship is physically challenging.

Its a lot of hard work. I enjoy it. But at the end of the day, youre home and you actually feel like you worked.

So, we have one last question: Does Dane watch episodes of The Last Ship?

Sometimes theyll be stupid enough to take my notes when I watch an episode, he said about the shows producers. I always try to offer like, I think theres a better take in there somewhere.

But he admits, its definitely uncomfortable seeing himself on TV, even after all these years.

Im not a big watcher of myself, he said. You start looking at things you shouldnt be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

The Last Ship returns with a two-hour season premiere this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on TNT. Check out our full Build interview with Dane below.

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Okay TGIT fans, there's some good news and some bad news this evening. We'll go ahead and rip off the Band-Aid: Grey's Anatomy and the rest of the TGIT line-up are not airing tonight, Thursday, April 25.

Instead, ABC is hosting the NFL Draft, which is great news for sports fans. It's a little puzzling that the draft is being hosted on ABC, the only one of the big four without an NFL package throughout the regular season (though ABC's parent company also owns ESPN, so sports ball does run in the family). The broadcast will also feature a special appearance from Taylor Swift, who will be dropping another clue about her new music expected to release on Friday, April 26.

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The good news is that Grey's and TGIT will return next week. In fact, Grey's and Station 19 will kick things off with a two-hour crossover special centering on trying to save Chief Ripley (Brett Tucker), who collapsed at the end of last week's Station 19. Grey's will also have to contend with Jo's (Camilla Luddington) continuing downward spiral. Meanwhile on For the People, Allison (Jasmin Savoy Brown) will get her first big episode of the season when she defends a man accused of selling fake cigarettes.

So just hang tight. One more week until your favorite shows are back!

Grey's Anatomy, Station 19, and For the People all return Thursday, May 2 beginning at 8/7c on ABC.

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Looks like there's drama brewing between Alex and Jo's estranged husband.

Matthew Morrison appears to be headed back to Grey's Anatomy in the upcoming 14th season. The Glee alum all but confirmed his return as Dr. Paul Stadler -- and it sounds like it'll be quite a meaty arc.

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Speaking with The Argonaut, Morrison let it slip that he was returning in a major way on ABC's hit medical soap.

"I have a big role in Grey's Anatomy coming up," the 38-year-old actor and father-to-be told the outlet. ABC declined to comment.

Morrison made his debut on Grey's in the penultimate episode of season 13, where Alex (Justin Chambers) spent much of his time following Paul's every move at a Seattle medical conference. Though Alex had visions of beating up Jo's abusive hubby, their only interaction was a brief moment outside when Alex passed on sharing a cab with Paul, who gave him a curious look.

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Earlier on Friday, ET confirmed that Grey's was replacing Bridget Regan as Megan Hunt, Owen's presumed dead sister, with Timeless star Abigail Spencer, due to Regan's commitments on The Last Ship.

Grey's Anatomy premieres season 14 with a two-hour episode on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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