The ABC network has ordered a fifth season of Abbott Elementary, the Emmy-winning comedy from creator and star Quinta Brunson. According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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.
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).
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+.