On May 10, 2021, ABC renewed the series for a fifth season. [30] Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers returned as executive producers. [1] Krista Vernoff returned as showrunner as part of a two-year deal with ABC. [31] Following the previous season, which takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic, this season takes place in a post-pandemic world. [32] ABC announced its holiday programming schedule in October 2021, where it was revealed that the season would contain both a Thanksgiving and Christmas themed episode to air in November and December, respectively. [33] In January 2022, production was delayed several days due to the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. [34] In February 2022, Vernoff described the back half of the season to be a darker story that would be fun for the actors. [35]
The entire main cast from the fourth season returned for the fifth season. [1] [21] Carlos Miranda was upped to series regular after recurring the previous season. [22] Okieriete Onaodowan departed as a series regular after the fifth episode of the season after requesting to leave at the end of the previous season. [21] Merle Dandridge was later cast in a recurring role as the new fire chief. [26]
When the 2021–22 United States network television schedule was announced, Station 19 would remain on Thursdays at 8:00 PM. [36] The season premiered on September 30, 2021 with a crossover event. [37] The midseason finale aired on December 16, 2021. [38] The season continued on February 24, 2022 with another crossover event with Grey's Anatomy. [39] [40] The season finale aired on May 19.
Jaina Lee Ortiz received an honorable mention for TVLine 's Performer of the Week for her performance in "When the Party's Over". [41] Grey Damon received an honorable mention for TVLine's Performer of the Week for his performance in "The Road You Didn't Take". [42] The season was also awarded The ReFrame Stamp, [43] a certification given to scripted television productions that hire "women or individuals of other underrepresented gender identities/expressions [...] in four out of eight key roles including writer, director, producer, lead, co-leads, and department heads." [44]
The season was ABC's second most-watched scripted television series during the 2021–2022 television season in the 18-49 demographic. [45] Throughout its broadcast, in same-day viewership, the season averaged a 0.61 rating [lower-alpha 1] in the 18–49 demographic and 4.47 million viewers, down 26 and 14 percent, respectively, from the previous season. [47] In Live+7 [lower-alpha 2] the season averaged a 0.9 rating in the 18–49 demographic and 6.2 million viewers, down 31 and 13 percent from the fourth season. [49]
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Phoenix from the Flame" | September 30, 2021 | 0.8 | 5.04 [2] | 0.3 | 1.66 | 1.0 | 6.70 [50] [lower-alpha 3] |
2 | "Can't Feel My Face" | October 7, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.29 [4] | 0.3 | 1.29 | 0.8 | 5.59 [51] [lower-alpha 3] |
3 | "Too Darn Hot" | October 14, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.29 [5] | 0.3 | 1.54 | 0.8 | 5.83 [52] |
4 | "100% or Nothing" | October 21, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.65 [6] | 0.3 | 1.52 | 0.9 | 6.17 [53] |
5 | "Things We Lost in the Fire" | November 11, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.58 [7] | 0.3 | 1.56 | 0.9 | 6.15 [54] [lower-alpha 3] |
6 | "Little Girl Blue" | November 18, 2021 | 0.7 | 4.85 [8] | 0.3 | 1.65 | 1.0 | 6.49 [55] |
7 | "A House Is Not a Home" | December 9, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.07 [9] | 0.3 | 1.75 | 0.9 | 5.82 [56] |
8 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | December 16, 2021 | 0.6 | 4.69 [10] | 0.2 | 1.21 | 0.8 | 5.90 [57] [lower-alpha 3] |
9 | "Started from the Bottom" | February 24, 2022 | 0.8 | 4.98 [11] | 0.3 | 1.53 | 1.0 | 6.51 [58] [lower-alpha 3] |
10 | "Searching for the Ghost" | March 3, 2022 | 0.7 | 4.46 [12] | 0.2 | 1.48 | 0.9 | 5.94 [59] [lower-alpha 3] |
11 | "The Little Things You Do Together" | March 10, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.25 [13] | 0.3 | 1.79 | 0.9 | 6.05 [60] |
12 | "In My Tree" | March 17, 2022 | 0.5 | 4.24 [14] | 0.3 | 1.80 | 0.8 | 6.04 [61] |
13 | "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" | March 24, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.60 [15] | 0.3 | 1.66 | 0.9 | 6.26 [62] |
14 | "Alone in the Dark" | March 31, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.44 [16] | 0.3 | 1.52 | 0.8 | 5.96 [63] |
15 | "When the Party's Over" | April 7, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.52 [17] | 0.2 | 1.43 | 0.9 | 5.95 [64] |
16 | "Death and the Maiden" | May 5, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.28 [18] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
17 | "The Road You Didn't Take" | May 12, 2022 | 0.5 | 3.95 [19] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
18 | "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" | May 19, 2022 | 0.6 | 4.28 [20] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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