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EXCLUSIVE: With the SAG-AFTRA strike formally ending yesterday, the printed networks are firming up the sizes of the 2023-24 orders to their scripted sequence, whose manufacturing was delayed by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA work stoppages.
As Deadline has reported over the previous week, due to the early November timing of the actors strike’s finish, returning broadcast scripted sequence will likely be producing between 10-13 episodes for this season to begin rolling out in February.
There are two notable exceptions, CBS’ Younger Sheldon and ABC’s Abbott Elementary, which is able to do extra. Particulars are nonetheless being ironed out, however I hear Younger Sheldon‘s upcoming seventh season will include 14-15 episodes. Abbott Elementary‘s third season could have 14 episodes, sources mentioned.
This could not come as a shock. Each Younger Sheldon and Abbott Elementary are half-hour comedies, and whereas as single-camera they take longer to supply than multi-camera sitcoms, they nonetheless may be filmed and delivered sooner than drama sequence.
Moreover, Younger Sheldon and Abbott Elementary are each their respective networks’ flagship comedy sequence which can be properly obtained by viewers and critics and are wanted by advertisers.
On Abbott Elementary, as Deadline reported, ABC and lead producing studio Warner Bros. TV acquired right into a back-and-forth after the top of the WGA strike when the printed networks began extra critical return-to-production planning. On the time, ABC was asking for 13 episodes whereas the studio needed to supply 17. For weeks, the 2 sides couldn’t come to an settlement. Following the top of the SAG-AFTRA strike, ABC and WBTV settled on a 14-episode third season of the award-winning comedy.
As for Younger Sheldon, The Huge Bang Concept prequel’s upcoming seventh season is the final in a three-year pickup the comedy obtained in 2021. There was hypothesis that the present’s story may come to a pure finish with Season 7 however no choice has been made on this being Younger Sheldon‘s ultimate chapter, sources mentioned.
