Despite Rumors To The Contrary, Tim Allen And Kat Dennings’ Shifting Gears Just Got Great News

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Residence Enchancment and Final Man Standing star Tim Allen made his highly-anticipated return to community TV within the 2025 TV schedule with Shifting Gears. Additionally starring Two Broke Ladies‘ Kat Dennings, the present was a breakout hit from the very begin… however then the longer term appeared much less vivid, with current rumors suggesting that it could possibly be cancelled in the identical season that ABC loses The Conners. Now, followers can depend on a vivid future for Shifting Gears.

Shifting Gears has formally been renewed for Season 2, with Deadline reporting an order of ten episodes to match the whole for Season 1. The freshman sitcom was a part of the community’s renewal spree, which additionally consists of extra seasons of Gray’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, The Rookie, and Will Trent. Comedy Abbott Elementary and Kaitlin Olson’s Excessive Potential have been each already renewed earlier this yr, with NCIS: LA alum Chris O’Donnell’s 9-1-1: Nashville additionally scoring a primetime slot.

The uncertainty about Shifting Gears‘ future largely lay in the truth that its exceptionally robust viewers for the pilot, at 17 million viewers throughout platforms after the primary week, wasn’t sustained by the brand new sitcom. (The present is presently accessible streaming with a Hulu subscription.) The decline by 40% in linear viewing and 50% within the helpful 18-49 age demographic might need been sufficient to result in a cancellation.

The sitcom reportedly scored a renewal due to the season common numbers that positioned Shifting Gears fifth amongst ABC’s scripted choices within the 2024-2025 TV schedule, though that common was presumably skewed by the premiere whole. The community can also be stated to place confidence in the star energy of leads Tim Allen and Kat Dennings. For his half, Allen was fast to have a good time the information on social media, posting on Instagram:

Kat Dennings had a celebratory Instagram put up of her personal, writing “See you in season 2!” The forged actually does have lots to have a good time, because it wasn’t that way back that Shifting Gears‘ on the spot reputation appeared like it will result in an early renewal. In truth, the premiere did so properly that it practically beat NBC’s Chicago Med elsewhere within the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesdays, which is a giant deal. In spite of everything, One Chicago’s medical drama was getting back from a cliffhanger.

Sadly for the ABC sitcom, the viewership simply did not maintain up from the spectacular sequence premiere numbers, and Kat Dennings was “on pins and needles” ready for information after the Season 1 finale aired in March. Shifting Gears was rumored to be on the cancellation bubble together with fellow ABC freshman present Physician Odyssey, which continues to be ready on information for its destiny.

If you wish to revisit the primary season of Shifting Gears now that it has been renewed for Season 2, you are able to do so now streaming on Hulu. It stays to be seen if it’ll return early in 2026 as a midseason present like how Season 1 launched or be part of Abbott Elementary in ABC’s fall slate.