Sunday, June 7, 2026

Ratings Shocker: “Grey’s Anatomy” Returned Trounced by Competition, Is This The End?

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“Grey’s Anatomy” returned for a 20th season last night and was trounced by its competition.

Grey’s on ABC was beaten soundly by “Law & Order SVU” on NBC, and “So Help Me Todd” on CBS.

Also thoroughly trashed was “Station 19,” in its final season. ABC moved it to 10pm so they could bring in “911” at 8pm. They also heavily promoted “911” and did very little for the other shows.

Is “Grey’s” done? Could be. Little by little, ABC has chucked the shows of Shonda Rhimes, the great producer and storyteller, who left them for Netflix.

The result of moving “Station 19” to 10pm wasn’t just bad ratings. They handed NBC a win with “Law & Order: Organized Crime” — they never win! Anything! Chris Meloni should send ABC bouquets of flowers! LOL!

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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