‘Abbott Elementary’ Scores Season 5 Renewal at ABC – Hollywood Reporter
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY - “Strike” - City buses have stopped running due to a strike, resulting in many students being absent from school. The teachers at Abbott try to find creative solutions and adapt to hybrid learning. Meanwhile, Gregory and O’Shon strike up a friendship. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22 (8:30-9:02 p.m. EST) on ABC. (Disney/Gilles Mingasson) LISA ANN WALTER, SHERYL LEE RALPH
Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterThe comedy has had two of its three most-watched episodes of 2024-25 in January.
By
Rick Porter
Television Writer
ABC is giving Abbott Elementary early admission to its 2025-26 schedule.
The network has ordered a fifth season of Abbott, the Emmy-winning comedy from creator and star Quinta Brunson. The renewal comes midway through the show’s fourth season, and on the heels of the show’s most-watched episode of the current season.
The show’s Jan. 8 episode, a crossover with FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, drew 8.05 million viewers with a week of multi-platform viewing — a season high for Abbott Elementary and its second most-watched episode over that time frame ever, behind a post-Oscars showing last year. About 39 percent of those viewers (3.15 million) watched the episode on Hulu or Disney+.
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Since moving up an hour to 8:30 on Wednesdays, the show has recorded two of its three largest same-day audiences of the season so far, according to Nielsen (the third, incidentally, was for an episode that aired at 8 p.m. in December).
The early renewal is nothing new for Abbott Elementary, which has scored pickups well ahead of the May upfronts in each of its first three seasons. The series is the first to earn a spot on ABC’s 2025-26 slate.
Along with Brunson, the show’s cast includes Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television produce Abbott Elementary. Brunson executive produces with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker of Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, Randall Einhorn and Brian Rubenstein.Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every dayInside the business of TV with breaking news, expert analysis and showrunner interviewsSubscribe for full access to The Hollywood ReporterSend us a tip using our anonymous form.
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