‘Shifting Gears’ Renewed For Season 2, ‘Doctor Odyssey’ On The Bubble

ABC has renewed freshman comedy sequence Shifting Gears, starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings, for a second season. Based on sources, the pickup is for 10 episodes, which isn’t atypical for a sequence that has launched in midseason and matches the sitcom’s Season 1 order.

Shifting Gears was certainly one of two ABC sequence on the bubble this spring, together with fellow freshman Physician Odyssey. The drama starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson now stays the one ABC scripted sequence in limbo because the community right this moment additionally renewed — as anticipated — veterans Gray’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, The Rookie in addition to third-year drama Will Trent, which be a part of beforehand picked up Excessive Potential and Abbott Elementary.

Marking the return to ABC of Final Man Standing and Residence Enchancment star Allen, Shifting Gears bought off to a red-hot begin, with the pilot episode logging virtually 17M cross-platform viewers over its first week for ABC’s greatest new sequence launch in additional than six years. it was the regular scores decline, 40% in linear viewership and 50% in adults 18-49 over its 10-episode run, that despatched the sequence to the bubble.

In the long run, the potent season common numbers, together with a multi-platform 18-49 ranking that ranks Shifting Gears #5 amongst ABC’s scripted sequence this season, coupled with the community’s religion within the sitcom prowess of stars Allen and Dennings and Allen’s longstanding relationship with Disney throughout films, linear TV and streaming, tipped the dimensions within the present’s favor.

As Deadline famous earlier this week, Shifting Gears‘ odds also likely were boosted by the fact that ABC has no comedy pilots this spring. With The Conners ending, the network would’ve gone all the way down to a lone comedy sequence, Abbott Elementary, subsequent fall, if the Tim Allen sitcom was not renewed. Moreover, midseason entries usually get extra leeway and are given time to seek out an viewers with a partial Season 2 pickup.

The renewal is a very excellent news for Shifting Gears followers because the comedy ended its first season on a cliffhanger. In an interview with Deadline, Dennings teased what viewers may anticipate in Season 2 and weighed on the notion that it’s a purple state present.

Along with Allen and Dennings, the principle forged of Shifting Gears contains Seann William Scott, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis. Allen government produces alongside showrunner Michelle Nader, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Richard Baker, Rick Messina, John Pasquin, Jim Patterson, Bob Every day and John Amodeo. Dennings is a producer. The sequence was created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully who exited after the pilot.

In the meantime, it might go all the way down to the wire on Physician Odyssey. With its slick manufacturing values and large stars, Ryan Murphy’s cruise ship medical drama is pricey to make, and it may go both method on the renewal entrance after an OK however not spectacular scores run, I hear. Presumably with that in thoughts, the upcoming Season 1 finale has an ending that might function a sequence finale, sources stated.

Quantity-crunching and conversations over what a Season 2 would seem like creatively proceed. Whatever the consequence, Murphy, certainly one of Disney’s high TV creators, is predicted to have at the very least two sequence on ABC’s schedule subsequent season with 9-1-1 and lately greenlighted spinoff 9-1-1: Nashville.