Craig Erwich has settled on his renewal decisions at ABC.
The network’s recently installed entertainment president has given out renewals for five of its 10 scripted originals that were on the bubble. Returning for the 2021-22 broadcast season are shows A Million Little Things (for season four) and The Rookie (season four) just as comedies The Goldbergs (season nine), The Conners (season four) and Home Economics (season two).
As yet staying on the bubble are comedy veteran American Housewife, Black-ish spinoff Mixed-ish and rookie Rebel as well as sophomore drama For Life. Kyra Sedgwick multicamera parody Call Your Mother has been canceled. ABC is relied upon to settle on decisions on its excess scripted originals today, however none of the four remaining shows are required to return.
There are no surprises with the half-hour renewals after The Conners stars as of late inked new deals to return for another season and with The Goldbergs staying one of ABC’s top-rated comedies. The Rookie, featuring network favorite Nathan Fillion, is likewise one of ABC’s most watched dramas while D.J. Nash’s A Million Little Things is a solid DVR and streaming performer. Home Economics jump started well out of the gate and is an internal favorite.
The five returning series join a schedule that additionally includes the eighth and final season of Black-ish, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19 and Big Sky. ABC still can’t seem to officially get any new scripted originals, however Lee Daniels’ The Wonder Years update is viewed as a lock to join the schedule.
The renewals are a touch more aggressive than the moves Erwich’s predecessor, Karey Burke, made a year prior during her first upfront onatop the broadcast network. Burke was promoted to oversee Disney’s studio, twentieth Television, in December, with Erwich adding oversight of the network to his purview as head of originals for Disney-backed streamer Hulu.
ABC is set to unveil its fall plan for a virtual show as a part of Disney’s forthright pitch to Madison Avenue advertisement purchasers on Tuesday. While the presentations will all be virtual again this year in the midst of the pandemic, the arrival of the traditional upfronts week shows a desire to revive the traditional broadcast calendar after the pandemic postponed the beginning of the 2020 fall season and diminished the all out number of scripted originals.
As far as ownership, ABC will completely claim essentially the entirety of its returning shows, with The Goldbergs created by Sony, which additionally co-owns The Good Doctor, while Topher Grace-drove Home Economics is a co-creation with Lionsgate TV. David E. Kelley’s Big Sky is likewise a co-genius (with A+E Studios).
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