4 Bonus Ask Ausiello Scoops

It's Ask Ausiello — only bigger! Scroll down for four bonus AA scoops, including exclusive Aunt Becky-related intel on the final season of Fuller House and and a sneak preview of Sunday's better-be-season finale of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

GREY'S ANATOMY 

Pre-production on Season 17 gets underway this month — emphasis on the word pre. "I'm going to start up the writers' room in May, but it's going to be  'Zoom room,'" showrunner Krista Vernoff tells TVLine, referring to the video conferencing service that has become de rigueur during the pandemic. "The hope is that we will be able to start production when we usually do, which is in July. But we have to wait and see how this thing plays out, obviously."

ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST

Sunday's Season 1 finale features a seven-minute scene that was captured in a single shot (aka "a oner"). "We rehearsed it for two weeks leading up to the shooting of it," teases showrunner Austin Winsberg. "It required massive coordination amongst many different departments in order to get it right, and it's probably the number — or certainly one of the numbers — that I'm most proud of all season." (Head here for the latest on Zoey's Extraordinary renewal prospects.)

HOMELAND 

If the final 10 minutes of last week's Homeland series finale looked like a cold open of a pilot for a completely different, far glitzier spy series, well, that was intentional. "The whole thing was just so un-Homeland like — and that's what we were going for," EP Alex Gansa tells TVLine. "If you notice, a lot about that last sequence with Carrie and Yevgeny at the concert and the music that was playing feels very different. And that was intentional." Similarly, "I don't think we've ever seen Carrie Mathison glammed up like that," Gansa points out. "This was a Carrie who was glammed up and gorgeous and mature and in her element in a way that's meant to feel different. You're meant to leave the show with another image of Carrie."

FULLER HOUSE

The Netflix reboot has made numerous fourth wall-breaking references to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen — the only original Full House cast members yet to appear on the Netflix spinoff — but the show, which returns for its final run on June 2, has saved its best (and most pointed) for last. As for the other elephant in this very full room, Lori Loughlin may not appear in the sitcom's final nine episodes, but Aunt Becky's ears will also be burning.