Michelle Nader tells TheWrap how "Shifting Gears" hopes to modernize sitcoms without losing "the parts that we love"

The series also stars Seann William Scott, Daryl Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis. Jenna Elfman will be a recurring guest star.

Allen’s Matt is a beleaguered widower, lonely after his wife’s recent passing. He runs an auto shop that fixes up old cars (the man can never be too far from a tool chest), which he keeps pristinely clean and organized, just like his home.

Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.

Kat Dennings said stepping onto the set with Tim Allen and the cast to make the new ABC sitcom Shifting Gears “was like a ’90s Mount Rushmore.” The show also stars Seann William Scott ...

Tim Allen and Kat ... (Dennings) moves back into the family home, along with her kids. Can they find a shared path despite their differences or will the wheels come off first? Seann William ...

Kat Dennings may have taken a hard right turn, but Tim Allen hasn’t budged. In “Shifting Gears,” he’s the same character we discovered in “Home Improvement” and “Last Man Standing.”

In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, Disney says. That’s a 173% lift over the episode’s already fairly impressive same-day audience of 6.2M.

The "Abbott Elementary" and "It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia" crossover also marked a series high with more than 8 million viewers The post ‘Shifting Gears’ With Tim Allen Becomes ABC’s Best Series Launch in 6 Years With 17 Million Viewers | Exclusive appeared first on TheWrap.

The premiere episode of Tim Allen's new sitcom 'Shifting Gears' now stands as the most-watched ABC streaming premiere to date.

Shifting Gears star Kat Dennings reflected on her time working with Bob Saget three years after his death. Dennings, 38, said Saget was “lovely” to work with and remembered his “protective” nature in an interview with People published on Saturday, January 19.

Sitcom vets Tim Allen and Kat Dennings have done it again. The two have united to co-star in an all-new sitcom for ABC, and the result has set an impressive record for the network. Per Deadline, Allen and Dennings' new series,