Grey's Anatomy vs. Private Practice--Which Was Worse?

Ooooh, Grey’s Anatomy is gonna be weird this season. With the interns now the head honchos, George re-doing his residency, and a whole new slew of cast members (where was I when they were holding auditions?), the show has majorly changed—and hopefully not for the worse.
In the season premiere, not a whole lot went on…George complained about and made up excuses for not passing his exam, Meredith and Derek attempted to negotiate their relationship (what else is new?), Callie struggled as the new Chief of Surgery (with no help from Bailey), and Izzie saved a deer. Big woop.
The only saving grace of the episode came at the very end, when George showed up on Izzie’s doorstep and uttered the words, “I love you too.” God, pull my heart out and operate it, why doncha? My desire for George and Izzie to be together (which is weird for T.R. and Katherine since they’re besties) almost overshadows the fact that George is going to break Callie’s heart. My prediction: Callie will make George’s life a living hell, George & Izzie will struggle to maintain their relationship with Callie lurking, their status as student and boss, and not to mention their friends, and things will get really awkward when they break up. Isn’t this supposed to be a medical show?
Then there’s Private Practice, Kate Walsh’s spinoff from Grey’s. Either Shonda Rimes thought Walsh had the strongest character on the show or everyone was sick of hearing about the Derek-Meredith-Addison triangle. Regardless, and it pains me to say this because of my love for Taye Diggs, Audra McDonald and Tim Daly, the result is a cheap imitation of Grey’s that manages to pin itself up against a wall, limited by its very source material. I’m talking family planning, people. It is clear from the pilot that all of the medical story lines (as well as undercutting angsty character plots) are going to center around children, family, birth. Doesn’t that severly limit the material for the show? Call me crazy, but I think a spin-off is already limiting in its source material, and Private Practice is managing to do so even more. We’ll see how successful this show is. At least ABC was smart enough to put it on a different night from Grey’s, although it could possibly use the ratings boost that come from the Ugly Betty-Grey’s Anatomy powerhouse.