House 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 Women‘ Kat Dennings, the present was a breakout hit from the very begin… however then the long run appeared much less vibrant, with latest rumors suggesting that it might be cancelled in the identical season that ABC loses The Conners. Now, followers can rely on a vibrant future for Shifting Gears.
Shifting Gears has formally been renewed for Season 2, with Deadline reporting an order of ten episodes to match the overall for Season 1. The freshman sitcom was a part of the community’s renewal spree, which additionally contains 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 12 months, 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 at the moment out there streaming with a Hulu subscription.) The decline by 40% in linear viewing and 50% within the beneficial 18-49 age demographic may 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 complete. The community can also be mentioned 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 definitely does have so much to have a good time, because it wasn’t that way back that Shifting Gears‘ on the spot reputation appeared like it might result in an early renewal. The truth is, the premiere did so effectively that it practically beat NBC’s Chicago Med elsewhere within the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesdays, which is an enormous deal. In any case, 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 collection 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 remains 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.