I love Grey's Anatomy

But am I the only person who thinks it should be renamed The Miranda Bailey Show?



Not only do I love her character but Chandra Wilson's fierce performance far outshines Ellen Pompeo's. Meredith Grey is not a particularly interesting character and she comes across as whiny and vapid thanks to Pompeo's lack of skill. Were it not for the stellar supporting cast surrounding her, I would have stopped watching a while ago.

But now I have no choice but to stop watching. See, here in the UK where I am still stuck against my will, the show is on Channel 5 and they have decided to stop showing it 5 episodes into season 2. I emailed them to find out why they had done this and the response was this:

"We are not ceasing to transmit this programme 5 episodes into Series 2. In actual fact, we are currently transmitting episodes from Series 1 and the final episode from this series has been scheduled for broadcast at 22:00 on 6th July.

Series 1 of Grey’s Anatomy contains 14 episodes. The confusion may have arisen as the US broadcaster chose to end Series 1 after Episode 9 and continue with the remaining 5 episodes at a later date. We chose not to do this and will be transmitting all 14 episodes without a break.

We do have the rights to Series 2 which contains a total of 22 episodes; however, our rights commence in March 2007 and we will only be able to transmit this series after this date."

So obviously I had to respond to that with the following:

"Well the DVD box set for Season 1 of Grey's Anatomy in
both the US and the UK only contain 9 episodes. The
listings on imdb and on the official website for
Grey's Anatomy list Season 1 as being 9 episodes and
season 2 being 27 episodes, with the episode scheduled
to air on Channel 5 on 6th July as the fifth episode
of the season. There is evidently some confusion here,
but I don't think it is mine. "

I don't expect a response to that one, oddly enough. My housemate and I are now downloading the remaining episodes from Season 2.