‘Law & Order’ Return Ties With ‘Station 19’, ‘Grey’ Anatomy’ Crossover Event; ‘Young Sheldon’ Wins Audience
deadline.comThursday primetime was truly a battleground for long-running dramas as NBC’s Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU duked it out against ABC’s first Station 19-Grey’s Anatomy crossover event of 2022.Per fast affiliates, the long-awaited return of Law & Order proper, Station 19, Law & Order: SVU and Grey’s Anatomy all tied for the night’s highest demo rating.
Law & Order returned to NBC after nearly 12 years earning a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo and 5.54 million viewers. The 21st season of the long-running drama series welcomed back original cast members Sam Waterson and Anthony Anderson.
In the same hour Station 19 (0.7, 4.78M) returned to pick things up from Grey’s midseason cliffhanger (literally). The ABC drama was up from its midseason finale in December (0.6, 4.53M)Following the excitement of the first primetime hour, Law & Order: SVU (0.7, 5.04M) was up from its last pre-Olympics episode (0.6, 4.18M).
Grey’s Anatomy (0.7, 4.41M), which was also up from its midseason finale (0.6, 4.06M), bid farewell to Richard Flood’s DR. Cormac Hayes.Despite the high ratings of the NBC and ABC dramas, it was CBS’s Young Sheldon (0.6, 6.76M) that brought in the night’s largest audience, once again.
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