Tim Allen
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Tim Allen is returning to ABC.
The previous Final Man Standing star will topline Shifting Gears, a multicamera comedy pilot for the Disney-backed broadcast community.
Shifting Gears revolves round Matt (Allen), a cussed, widowed proprietor of a traditional automobile restoration store. When Matt’s estranged daughter and her teenage youngsters transfer into his home, the actual restoration begins.
Mike and Julie Scully will co-write the script and exec produce the pilot alongside Allen and Final Man’s Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Richard Baker and Rick Messina.
Allen starred in Final Man Standing, which was initially developed for ABC and aired six of its 9 seasons on the community earlier than transferring to Fox as a part of a wonky possession transfer. That sequence, like Shifting Gears, was produced by twentieth Tv. The studio was previously owned by Fox, which licensed Final Man to ABC earlier than Disney acquired the studio. Disney then licensed the present again to Fox, the place it aired its remaining three seasons.
The Shifting Gears order comes as ABC has pivoted to a year-round growth mannequin. It’s ABC’s first pilot order of 2024 and arrives because the community already has drama Excessive Potential in line for the 2024-25 broadcast season after the sequence was developed greater than a 12 months in the past.
That is the fourth broadcast pilot order of 2024 as solely NBC is producing pilots this season.
