It’s become an annual tradition for ABC‘s flagship comedy series Abbott Elementary to lead the network’s renewals with an early pickup. It has happened again, with the show, created by and starring Quinta Brunson, getting a Season 5 renewal, the first ABC series to secure its spot on the 2025-26 schedule. Instead of the cast, the school comedy let school children reveal the news in a video.
The pickup follows Abbott Elementary‘s highly-rated winter return. The Jan. 8 crossover episode with FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia hit series high in total viewers (8.05 million) and adults 18-49 (2.57 rating) in multi-platform viewing (excluding the show’s post-Oscars episode last season) and scored series high episode views on streaming, based on the first seven days on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
Produced by Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, Abbott Elementary revolves around the teachers at an underfunded public school in Philadelphia. It stars Emmy winner Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues, Tyler James Williams as Gregory Eddie, Janelle James as Ava Coleman, Chris Perfetti as Jacob Hill, Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti, William Stanford Davis as Mr. Johnson and Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard.
Brunson executive produces alongside Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker of Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, Randall Einhorn and Brian Rubenstein.
Season 4 of Abbott Elementary airs Wednesdays on ABC, and streams next day on Hulu. In the next episode, debuting Jan. 22, the teachers at Abbott adapt to hybrid learning after many students miss school when city buses stop running due to a strike.
