Station 19 season 5

The fifth season of the American television action-drama Station 19, spin off of Grey's Anatomy, began airing in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 30, 2021, and concluded on May 19, 2022. The season was produced by ABC Signature, in association with Shondaland Production Company and Trip the Light Productions.

This is the first season with Carlos Miranda as a series regular after recurring the previous season. This is also the last season to feature Okieriete Onaodowan as a series regular. On January 11, 2022, ABC renewed the series for a sixth season.

Station 19 centers around the professional and personal lives of the firefighters of the fictional Station 19 of the Seattle Fire Department. Several plot points connect to parent series Grey's Anatomy through fictional crossover events.

Main

 * Jaina Lee Ortiz as Andrea "Andy" Herrera
 * Jason George as Benjamin "Ben" Warren
 * Boris Kodjoe as Robert Sullivan
 * Grey Damon as Jack Gibson
 * Barrett Doss as Victoria "Vic" Hughes
 * Jay Hayden as Travis Montgomery
 * Okieriete Onaodowan as Dean Miller
 * Danielle Savre as Maya DeLuca-Bishop
 * Stefania Spampinato as Dr. Carina DeLuca-Bishop
 * Carlos Miranda as Theodore "Theo" Ruiz

Recurring

 * Lachlan Buchanan as Emmett Dixon
 * Josh Randall as Fire Captain Sean Beckett
 * Alain Uy as Captain Pat Aquino
 * Barbara Eve Harris as Ifeya Miller
 * Lindsey Gort as Ingrid Saunders
 * Robert Curtis Brown as Paul Montgomery
 * Natasha Ward as Deja Duval
 * Jeffrey D. Sams as Bill Miller
 * Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
 * Merle Dandridge as Fire Chief Natasha Ross
 * Jennifer Jalene as Luisa Berrol

Notable guests

 * James Pickens Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
 * Tracie Thoms as Dr. Diane Lewis
 * Jeanne Sakata as Nari Montgomery
 * Jayne Taini as Marsha Smith
 * Kevin McKidd as Dr. Owen Hunt
 * Kim Raver as Dr. Teddy Altman
 * Jaicy Elliot as Dr. Taryn Helm
 * Pat Healy as Michael Dixon
 * BJ Tanner as William George "Tuck" Jones

Development
On May 10, 2021, ABC renewed the series for a fifth season. Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers returned as executive producers. Krista Vernoff returned as showrunner as part of a two-year deal with ABC. Following the previous season, which takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic, this season takes place in a post-pandemic world. 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. In January 2022, production was delayed several days due to the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In February 2022, Vernoff described the back half of the season to be a darker story that would be fun for the actors.

Casting
The entire main cast from the fourth season returned for the fifth season. Carlos Miranda was upped to series regular after recurring the previous season. 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. Merle Dandridge was later cast in a recurring role as the new fire chief.

Release
When the 2021–22 United States network television schedule was announced, Station 19 would remain on Thursdays at 8:00 PM. The season premiered on September 30, 2021 with a crossover event. The midseason finale aired on December 16, 2021. The season continued on February 24, 2022 with another crossover event with Grey's Anatomy. The season finale aired on May 19.

Awards and nominations
Jaina Lee Ortiz received an honorable mention for TVLine Performer of the Week for her performance in "When the Party's Over". Grey Damon received an honorable mention for TVLine's Performer of the Week for his performance in "The Road You Didn't Take". The season was also awarded The ReFrame Stamp, 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."

Ratings
The season was ABC's second most-watched scripted television series during the 2021–2022 television season in the 18-49 demographic. Throughout its broadcast, in same-day viewership, the season averaged a 0.61 rating in the 18–49 demographic and 4.47 million viewers, down 26 and 14 percent, respectively, from the previous season. In Live+7 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.