“Station 19” is no “Grey’s Anatomy.” To be fair, not many shows are — but the Shondaland spinoff didn’t get off to too hot a start last night.
Shonda Rhimes’ newest ABC series premiered to lackluster Nielsen ratings on Thursday, when its first hour matched NBC’s competing “Chicago Fire” in the key 18-49 demographic, but the second 60 minutes couldn’t keep pace.
Neither block of “Station 19” was able to match NBC’s firefighter show in terms of total viewers, but at least they provided a time slot boost to the Disney-owned broadcast net.
Either way, CBS smoked out all of its primetime competition last night with a pair of March Madness basketball games.