It’s become an annual tradition for ABC’s flagship comedy series Abbott Elementary School to lead network renewals with early recovery. It happened again, with the series, created by and starring Quinta Brunson, getting a Season 5 renewal, the first ABC series to secure its place in the 2025-2026 lineup. Instead of the casting call, the school comedy allowed schoolchildren to reveal the news in a video which you can watch below.
Pickup follows Abbott Elementary SchoolThe much-loved winter return of . The January 8 crossover episode with FXX It’s always sunny in Philadelphia hit series in total viewers (8.05 million) and adults 18-49 (2.57 rating) in cross-platform viewing (excluding the post-Oscars episode of the series season last) and achieved high streaming episode views, based on the first seven days on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
Produced by Warner Bros. Television and 20th Television, a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, Abbott Elementary School revolves around the teachers of 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 produces alongside Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker of Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, Randall Einhorn and Brian Rubenstein.
Season 4 of Abbott Elementary School airs Wednesdays on ABC and streams the next day on Hulu. In the next episode, debuting Jan. 22, Abbott teachers adjust to hybrid learning after many students missed school when city buses stopped running due to a strike.
