Following its series debut last January, ABC announced that Tim Allen‘s newest comedy show Shifting Gears has officially set a new audience record. 2 Broke Girls vet Kat Dennings also leads the sitcom.

The sitcom world got a boost with Shifting Gears, starring Kat Dennings and Tim Allen. The premiere set records as ABC’s most-watched streaming debut and its strongest opening since The Conners.

Tim Allen and Kat Dennings are returning to the sitcom screen, this time as an estranged father-daughter duo. “ Shifting Gears ” premieres Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Watch the new series for free with a trial from Fubo or DIRECTV Stream. You can also watch it on Jan. 9, with a free Hulu trial or Hulu with the Disney Bundle.

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.

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.”

Tim Allen’s new ABC sitcom “Shifting Gears” is revving its ratings engine. According to ABC, the series now stands as the most-watched ABC series premiere on streaming to date, via first seven days of views on both Hulu and the Hulu portion of Disney+.

Tim Allen comedies are still a big draw, apparently, because the premiere of his latest series Shifting Gears has set an audience record for ABC. In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC,

Tim Allen's new sitcom Shifting Gears marks a record-setting viewership for ABC, surpassing a previous record for The Conners viewership in 2018.