Michelle Nader tells TheWrap how "Shifting Gears" hopes to modernize sitcoms without losing "the parts that we love"

Allen’s Matt is a beleaguered widower, lonely after his wife’s recent passing. He runs an auto shop that fixes up old cars (the man can never be too far from a tool chest), which he keeps pristinely clean and organized, just like his home.

The series also stars Seann William Scott, Daryl Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis. Jenna Elfman will be a recurring guest star.

Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.

Kat Dennings said stepping onto the set with Tim Allen and the cast to make the new ABC sitcom Shifting Gears “was like a ’90s Mount Rushmore.” The show also stars Seann William Scott ...

Kat Dennings may have taken a hard right turn ... Barrett Margolis is fun, too, as his sister. Seann William Scott and Daryl Mitchell, as two who work in Allen’s car restoration shop, are ...

Tim Allen and Kat ... (Dennings) moves back into the family home, along with her kids. Can they find a shared path despite their differences or will the wheels come off first? Seann William ...

Kat Dennings may have taken a hard right turn, but Tim Allen hasn’t budged. In “Shifting Gears,” he’s the same character we discovered in “Home Improvement” and “Last Man Standing.”

“Shifting Gears” stars Daryl "Chill" Mitchell as Stitch, Seann William Scott as Gabriel, Maxwell Simkins as Carter, Barrett Margolis as Georgia, Tim Allen as Matt, and Kat Dennings as Riley.

The "Abbott Elementary" and "It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia" crossover also marked a series high with more than 8 million viewers The post ‘Shifting Gears’ With Tim Allen Becomes ABC’s Best Series Launch in 6 Years With 17 Million Viewers | Exclusive appeared first on TheWrap.

Sitcom vets Tim Allen and Kat Dennings have done it again. The two have united to co-star in an all-new sitcom for ABC, and the result has set an impressive record for the network. Per Deadline, Allen and Dennings' new series,

In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, Disney says. That’s a 173% lift over the episode’s already fairly impressive same-day audience of 6.2M.