Station 19 is in full pre-production on the seventh season. The scripts are being finalized to film on the set starting in January, with the aim of having the episodes ready for the spring. For fans, however, the broadcast will be bittersweet: the ABC channel, which is owned by Disney and broadcasts the series in the United States, has decided that the rescues and fires of the Seattle fire brigade that came out as a spin will end here. -off Grey's Anatomy.
The Station 19 situation is ironic. Its pilot aired in March 2018 as another episode of the fourteenth season of Grey's Anatomy with the excuse that Ben Warren (Jason George), Miranda Bailey's husband, was leaving his job as a surgeon to join the fire department. the city. Since then, the series has aired 95 episodes, which means that in the seventh season it will celebrate 100 episodes, which on television is considered a great achievement. And, despite its longevity, it seems like an almost ephemeral series as it says goodbye before Grey's Anatomy, which has produced 420 episodes.
The positive side of the news is that Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige, the current showrunners, will have time to close the plots and, in the case of Grey's Anatomy, which is creatively led by Meg Marinis, will be able to see how Grey's story fits together. firefighters at the hospital. Will any excuse be found to bring back actor Jason George, who will now lose his regular job, and therefore Ben Warren will want to return to medicine? They will have 10 episodes to close the plots of season 19.
Furthermore, the cancellation cannot be said to have been planned. The sixth season, with six million viewers, allowed it to be the second most watched drama series on the ABC channel only behind Grey's Anatomy. However, two circumstances seem to have weighed on him. The first is that it is a veteran series and its costs are rising. The Meredith Gray series (now without Meredith Grey) may be even more so but it works better in terms of audience and, furthermore, its reruns on streaming platforms are a boon for Disney. In free-to-air television with decreasing live audiences and the need to save and adjust budgets, this variable could have weighed.
The other reason is that, after its cancellation on the Fox channel, ABC rescued the series 9-1-1 with Peter Krause and Angela Bassett, taking advantage of the fact that it is produced by 20th Television, owned by Disney. It is another high-cost production, taking into account that Bassett earns approximately half a million per episode, but more recognizable and with a greater commercial profile abroad. Thus, if 9-1-1 renews after the broadcast of its seventh season, there will only be one firefighter series left standing in the channel's primetime.
Station 19, therefore, is the second Grey's Anatomy spin-off to be survived by the Seattle doctors. In 2007, at the height of the Ellen Pompeo drama, she dedicated a series to the character of Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) in her new life in California, in a private clinic specializing in fertility and childbirth. Without Appointment she ran for six seasons and said goodbye in 2013 after 111 episodes.
