The tip of the 2024 TV schedule implies that the time is true to look again on among the most notable small display rankings and viewers sizes from the previous a number of months. Whereas Gray’s Anatomy has been safe on ABC’s Thursday nights going again to 2006, the community moved it to the ten p.m. ET time slot for the primary time since Season 2 as Physician Odyssey joined to fill the Station 19 emptiness. There is a lengthy wait till Gray’s returns within the 2025 TV schedule, and value trying on the rankings to see if change is warranted within the new yr.
ABC’s Thursday lineup in fall of the 2024-2025 TV schedule began with 9-1-1 Season 8 at 8 p.m. ET, continued with Physician Odyssey in Gray’s Anatomy‘s former slot at 9 p.m. ET, after which the long-running medical drama closed out the evening in Station 19‘s earlier slot at 10 p.m. ET. In line with TVLine, the common viewers for Gray’s in Season 21 to this point throughout seven days is simply 4 million, with a ranking of 0.52.
That marks a drop of 17% since Season 20 aired at 9 p.m. on Thursdays within the spring, which is an enormous dip. That stated, it’s value noting that Season 21 has remained regular with the numbers from Station 19′s last season. It additionally makes Gray’s Anatomy the ABC present on Thursday nights with the smallest common viewers, though the 0.52 ranking comes between 9-1-1 (at 0.65) and Physician Odyssey (at 0.46). (All three exhibits can be found streaming with a Hulu subscription now.)
Whereas evaluating these three collection, although, Joshua Jackson’s new mission has improved on the viewers dimension from Gray’s Anatomy‘s earlier season within the 9 p.m. slot. by 3%. As for 9-1-1, the viewers has remained regular for Season 8 from how the present’s first season on ABC carried out earlier within the yr following its migration over from Fox, and it’s tied for #2 amongst highest-rated broadcast community dramas. In line with the figures from TVLine, Gray’s is the one one in all ABC’s scripted exhibits to dip within the rankings and viewers from the 2023-2024 TV season to the 2024-2025 TV season to this point.
If this all looks as if lots of math, simply know that Gray’s Anatomy has dropped in rankings and viewers dimension since shifting from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET on Thursdays and is at the moment the least-viewed of the ABC exhibits on the evening. That is after all not the tip of the world, and that late slot may nonetheless permit for some further steamy scenes as Season 21 continues. Plus, there are different variables to think about, together with that the medical drama is now not paired with one other present set in the identical universe for the reason that finish of Station 19.
On the time of writing, ABC hasn’t modified the order of the primetime lineup of 9-1-1, then Physician Odyssey, then Gray’s Anatomy on Thursdays in 2025, so the rankings could not matter a lot till nearer to the tip of Season 21. Sadly for followers, the community is not bringing the exhibits again any time too quickly. All three return with their winter premieres on Thursday, March 6. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to at all times revisit earlier episodes through Hulu.