‘Station 19’ Renewed For Season 7 At ABC; Zoanne Clack & Peter Paige Set As Showrunners
20.04.2023 - 23:51
/ deadline.com
Station 19 is set to hit its 100th episode in the 2023/24 season after ABC renewed the first-responders drama series for a seventh season.
The network has also confirmed that Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige will serve as showrunners and exec producers after Deadline revealed that Krista Vernoff was stepping down from Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy, with the pair likely to step up.
Over the last few years, the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff has been getting renewals alongside its mothership series. However, Grey’s was renewed for its 20th season last month and Deadline understood that the holdup on Station 19 was the size of the order, which ABC has not revealed. Previous seasons have generally been between 16 and 18 episodes.
Helping this renewal was the fact that the main cast have contracts that cover next season and beyond.
Zoanne Clack, MD, MPH had previously added exec producer and head writer duties on Station 19 under Vernoff and this marks her second promotion in eight months, having joined in August amid an upheaval in the series’ writers room following an incident involving racial slur use by a racist character in a draft of an outline which exposed long-simmering racial issues on the show.
Clack will share the role with The Fosters and Good Trouble co-creator Peter Paige, who joined the show in 2020 during season four as a director and became an exec producer in season six.
Stacy McKee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, and Paris Barclay serve as executive producers on the series. It is produced by Shondaland and ABC Signature.
Station 19, which was created by Stacy McKee, is set in Seattle and focuses on the lives of the men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19. It stars Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Grey Damon, Barrett