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Matt and Riley are going to be living together for a while. ABC has renewed the Shifting Gears series for a second year and the 2025-26 TV season. The sitcom’s first season of 10 episodes finished airing last month.
A multi-camera comedy series, the Shifting Gears TV show was created by Julie Thacker Scully & Mike Scully. It stars Tim Allen, Kat Dennings, Seann William Scott, Daryl Chill Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins, and Barrett Margolis. Jenna Elfman recurs. In the story, Matt (Allen) is the stubborn and widowed owner of a garage that specializes in fixing vintage and custom cars. Helping him are wisecracking and wheelchair-bound Stich (Mitchell) and handsome but not too bright Gabriel (Scott). Matt’s world is turned upside down when his estranged wild-child daughter returns, driving the Pontiac PTO she “borrowed” from him 15 years earlier. Riley (Dennings) was supposed to go to law school but got pregnant out of high school and she and her musician boyfriend departed for Las Vegas. Now, Riley’s getting a divorce, has two kids, and needs a place to live. Her son is moody teen Carter (Simkins) and her daughter is sweet Georgia (Margolis), a fan of Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner with dreams of becoming very wealthy someday. Before here death, Riley’s mom helped Matt and his daughter communicate. Since her passing, they haven’t talked and now, father and daughter must learn to get along on their own.
Airing on Wednesday nights, the first season of Shifting Gears averaged a 0.32 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.77 million viewers (includes DVR playback through 3:00 AM).
ABC announced the renewal via social media. The network’s expected to release its Fall schedule in the coming weeks.
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What do you think? Are you glad that this ABC comedy has been renewed for the 2025-26 TV season? Will you be watching season two of Shifting Gears?
I like the show because of Tim Allen and Kat Dennings. I do think it needs some work. Last Man Standing was much funnier and touched on multiple topics.
Sadly, Tim Allen does not deliver in this show, Kat Dennings and Tim Allen have no chemistry, too forced, I’m surprised this was renewed.
Yes, has a few funny lines.. got better than it started out. 🙂
YAY!!! ABC has renewed the Shifting Gears series for a second year and the 2025-26 TV season. Great! 🙂
Glad that they got a season 2. I like Jenna Elfman on this show and how her and Tim Allen work together, and I like the kids. Sean Williams Scott is cool but his character isn’t given much, and Kat Dennings’ character is a little annoying. I like Chill Mitchell. And I don’t really like the character of the ex-husband.
Shifting Gears is a non funny boring show. Was hoping it had humor, but No. I stopped watching after the 2nd episode
I like it but I can kind of see why some people wouldn’t. It is a very laid back show, even more so than Last Man Standing.