Yesterday, ABC promoted Abbott Elementary to fifth grade. Today, the network told High Potential, 9-1-1, and 9-1-1 Nashville that they want the three shows back on the schedule next season.
High Potential is ABC’s most-watched show in the overnights, so a third season was a given. And 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Nashville are always good to get buzz, so bring on season 10 and season 2, respectively.
Since the network made all four announcements on social media, I will be refreshing the Will Trent pages because ABC’s most-watched show after seven-day totals better be back to solve more crimes.
Which renewal are you most excited about? And which show’s future are you waiting to find out about?
Earlier this year, Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) went back to school at Abbott Elementary. And this Summer, the teachers are going to Paddy’s Pub.
This season, which is also their 20th anniversary, “The Gang Embraces The Corporate Era:” The story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Paddy’s Pub.
They’ll exploit cross-network promotion to increase market share; they’ll scapegoat one of their own to avoid a PR backlash; they’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudis; they’ll bend the laws with side hustles to pad their pockets; and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience.
And sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been plain since 2005. But they’re also human beings. They crave love…respect…conditional freedom…constant adulation…histrionic amounts of attention… non-stop gratification…and unfiltered, slaphappy eroticism. They’ll chase down them all.
And the money. Obviously, the money. They don’t want to spend the rest of their lives working like dogs.
After 17 seasons and 20 years, I think they will be doing that until Danny DeVito is the last one standing. So that will be forever!
ABC loves learning the ABCs from Abbott Elementary so much that they picked it up for a fifth season today.
The sitcom is the network’s most buzzed show, after 9-1-1, and one of the few that get Emmy nominations, so it makes sense.
Plus, it is getting help in the ratings from the premiere of Tim Allen’s Shifting Gears and the crossover event episode with the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
UPDATE: ABC was in a good mood today because they also picked up High Potential for a second season. The police procedural, which stars Kaitlin Olson, has been doing great since its premiere. Therefore, this decision makes a lot of sense.
FX announced today that it picked up It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia for four more seasons. That will bring its total to 18, making it the longest-running live-action sitcom. Ozzie & Harriet was the previous title holder, and it ran for 14 seasons.
I wonder how many more seasons Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito can do this craziness for. I hope they go until at least 21. It should last long enough to celebrate being old enough to drink.
Let’s be honest, a lot of men like watching two women go at it. Well for Rob McElhenney, he might be able to get to see his wife, Kaitlin Olson, do just that. Well in Fox safe for broadcast TV sort of way. That is because he is a producing a pilot starring Leah Remini and his wife will be her wife.
If the pilot gets picked up, it is slated to air sometime next year. But with a story being about a conservative woman, who lives in the house with her new wife and 2 boys while her husband stays in her garage, how can they not pick it up?
I am sure McElhenney is writing a lot of kissing scenes as we speak! Can anyone blame him?
