‘Abbott Elementary’ Scores Season 5 Renewal at ABC
ABC is giving Abbott Elementary early admission to its 2025-26 schedule.
The network has ordered a fifth season of Abbott, the Emmy-winning comedy from creator and star Quinta Brunson. The renewal comes midway through the show’s fourth season, and on the heels of the show’s most-watched episode of the current season.
The show’s Jan. 8 episode, a crossover with FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, drew 8.05 million viewers with a week of multi-platform viewing — a season high for Abbott Elementary and its second most-watched episode over that time frame ever, behind a post-Oscars showing last year. About 39 percent of those viewers (3.15 million) watched the episode on Hulu or Disney+.
Since moving up an hour to 8:30 on Wednesdays, the show has recorded two of its three largest same-day audiences of the season so far, according to Nielsen (the third, incidentally, was for an episode that aired at 8 p.m. in December).
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The early renewal is nothing new for Abbott Elementary, which has scored pickups well ahead of the May upfronts in each of its first three seasons. The series is the first to earn a spot on ABC’s 2025-26 slate.
Along with Brunson, the show’s cast includes Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television produce Abbott Elementary. Brunson executive produces with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker of Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, Randall Einhorn and Brian Rubenstein.
