
There is also, just to complicate matters, old boyfriend and neighbor Ryan Tanner (Alberto Frezza), a policeman who seems to be wherever the fire crew goes. There is her father, whose nutrition she attempts to oversee and whose paperwork she handles, and his lieutenant, Jack Gibson (Grey Damon), with whom she gets frisky in the locker room. The figure at the center of “Station 19" is not Ben, however, but Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz), whom regular “Grey’s” viewers will have already met in the March 1 backdoor pilot episode, “You Really Got a Hold on Me.” Andy is a strong woman - “baby Rambo,” to her father (Miguel Sandoval), who is also her captain at the firehouse, and called more than once a “badass,” our age’s great compliment.īut Andy has not fully embraced her own toughness, being for the series’ opening moments more than a little defined and distracted by the dudes around her. Chandra Wilson, who plays Ben’s wife Miranda Bailey, and Ellen Pompeo, the eponymous Meredith Grey, make cameos in the “Station 19" opener, casting their light upon the newborn.

(Accepting his rookie status is Ben’s half-humorous challenge here.) It appears that groundwork for this career change has been laid throughout the current season. But the family resemblance is nevertheless clear.Ĭreated by longtime “Grey’s” writer and producer Stacy McKee, the drama is another story of Strong Women and Hot Men in Life-and-Death Situations, featuring characters of many colors and a soundtrack in which every major emotional moment is underscored by a pop song, as wine might be paired with an appetizer, an entree, a dessert.īen Warren (Jason George) is the character who connects “Station 19" to “Grey’s Anatomy,” a surgeon who has become a firefighter, as Michael Jordan once traded basketball for baseball. Unlike “Private Practice,” an earlier child of “Grey’s” that lived from 2007 to 2013, “Station 19” has not followed its parent into medicine, opting instead for a career in firefighting, and all the other things firefighters do. (And to fans without a Netflix subscription.) The new offspring will be introduced to the world Thursday on ABC, in that programming playground called Shondaland, though with executive producer Shonda Rhimes taking future business to Netflix, it represents something of a parting gift to her old broadcast home.

“Grey’s Anatomy,” which was born way back in the first term of the Bush (II) administration, has had a baby, which it has named “Station 19.”
