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ABC’s Shifting Gears proves this Tim Allensitcom world – and we all live in it.
The official trailer for the upcoming show premiering on Monday, December 30, and introducing Us to Allen’s character Matt, a widowed father who reconnects with an estranged girl Riley (Kat Dennings).
“I’m crawling home because I’m broke and need a place to stay until I figure out what the rest of my life looks like,” Riley admits in the sneak peek before Matt agrees. “Really? Because I haven’t changed much!”
The arrangement has its pros and cons – especially when Riley’s two children move in. “Can we try talking to each other like rational adults?” Riley asks as Matt huffs, “Have you watched the news lately? That’s not a thing anymore.”
Matt makes it clear that he has “a certain way of doing things,” which often puts him and Riley at odds.
“If I want to do something you don’t like, you look at the roof above you and go, ‘Okay,'” Matt says later in the clip. Meanwhile, Riley responds, “I’m not sure you understand how bridges work.”
As well as Dennings, 38, and Allen, 71, Shifting Gears also stars Seann William Scott, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins a Barrett Margolis.
Before his return to the sitcom world, Allen became a TV dad favorite with his role as Tim “The Toolman” Taylor on the ABC sitcom Housing Improvementwhich ran from 1991 to 1999. He later portrayed Mike Baxter for nine seasons on The Last Man Standing.
“The word that keeps me alive is ‘grateful.’ I love what I do. I get a lot more enjoyment out of entertaining people than anything financial,” Allen said alone Us Weekly in 2020. “I love the live audience we have. I tell them every night, ‘This is old school stuff, what television and broadcasting started with.’ I don’t know the future, but this (show) is rare.”
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Allen praised The Last Man Standing for not trying to reinvent the wheel.
“We did the same thing we did Housing Improvement. It’s about the relationships—we don’t get into topical stuff. But (now), I have women, so you see how a man is different in his perspective when he has so many strong women around him,” he continued. “We never make fun (of each other). It is a loving family. I like the fact that we honor and make fun – at the same time – marriage, organization, children, babies, people. But in the same way, we honor it. We’re not being snarky about it.”
Dennings, meanwhile, he played Max on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Women from 2011 to 2017. Shifting Gears also marks Scott’s third series regular role after he starred Welcome to Flatch a A Deadly Weapon.
Shifting Gears premieres on ABC Wednesday, January 8, at 8 pm ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.
