ABC has locked in most but notably, not all of its scripted series for the 2025-26 season.
The network on Thursday announced renewals for veteran drama series Greys Anatomy, 911, The Rookie and Will Trent and first-year comedy Shifting Gears. They join the previously renewed Abbott Elementary and High Potential on ABCs roster for next season, along with 911: Nashville, a spinoff of the first-responder series that earned a straight-to-series order in February.
The pickups will take Greys Anatomy through its 22nd season (its the longest-running scripted show in ABCs history); 911 through its ninth overall and third on ABC after moving from Fox; The Rookie through its eighth; Will Trent through its fourth season; and the Tim Allen-led Shifting Gears through its second. Not on the renewal list at the moment: Doctor Odyssey, the first-year drama from Ryan Murphy Television that stars Joshua Jackson as a cruise-ship doctor. Sources say ABC and the shows team are talking about the shows creative direction and a decision on season two has yet to be made.
ABC has the smallest scripted lineup of any of the big four broadcast networks, with only nine series airing this season and one of those, The Conners, ending in a months time. The network has also had a fairly quiet development season, with just a handful of projects in the works, among them a potential Rookie spinoff (ABC and Hulu merged their development teams under Simran Sethi six months ago). ABCs robust unscripted roster, along with programming from ABC News and live sports produced by ESPN, fills the majority of its primetime hours.
ABC may still order a few pilots this spring to consider for the second half of 2025-26; Shifting Gears was produced on a similar timeline last year, scoring a pilot order in early March and a series pickup in July.
Greys Anatomy, 911, Shifting Gears and Will Trent all hail from ABCs Disney sibling 20th Television, while The Rookie is produced Lionsgate TV in partnership with 20th.
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