It’s become an annual tradition for ABC‘s flagship comedy series Abbott Elementary to lead the network’s renewals with an early pickup.
It has happened again, with the show, created by and starring Quinta Brunson, getting a Season 5 renewal, the first ABC series to secure its spot on the 2025-26 schedule.
Instead of the cast, the school comedy let school children reveal the news in a video, which you can watch below. The pickup follows Abbott Elementary‘s highly-rated winter return.
The Jan. 8 crossover episode with FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia hit series high in total viewers (8.05 million) and adults 18-49 (2.57 rating) in multi-platform viewing (excluding the show’s post-Oscars episode last season) and scored series high episode views on streaming, based on the first seven days on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
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