Simply days after the premiere of its third season, ABC has introduced that Abbott Elementary has been renewed for season 4.
On Saturday, William Stanford Davis — the actor behind the beloved and kooky janitor Mr. Johnson within the elementary-school-centered sitcom — took to the stage at a Tv Critics Affiliation panel and shared the thrilling information of the present’s renewal.
Davis,72, appeared in character, sweeping up the stage and even wiping down the microphone earlier than saying that Abbott Elementary could be again for extra enjoyable with sequence creator, author and govt producer Quinta Brunson on the helm.
Brunson, 34, is coming off of a historic Emmy win as Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Collection, the primary time a Black actress has gained within the class since The Jeffersons star Isabel Sanford gained in 1981.
“This show has been very emotional for me from beginning to end,” Brunson, who gained in 2022 for Excellent Writing for a Comedy Collection in 2022, mentioned. “I feel like it’s such an underappreciated genre, and it’s the thing that raised me and like artistically guided me, so, you know. I get emotional about it.”
Along with Brunson’s win for performing, the present nabbed seven nominations together with for Excellent Comedy Collection, Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Collection (Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph), and Excellent Casting for a Comedy Collection.
Based on ABC, Abbott Elementary had the “strongest season average” for an ABC comedy because the 2019-2020 season and is at present ranked as ABC’s No. 1 multiplatform sequence.
The present launched season 3 on Feb. 7 and welcomed some contemporary faces to the solid, including The Different Two and Scream VI star Josh Segarra, Hacks alum Kimia Behpoornia and By no means Have I Ever‘s Benjamin Norris. The trio play new faculty district representatives who’re decided to result in change to Abbott Elementary. The brand new characters additionally led to a shakeup, recruiting Brunson’s character, Janine Teagues, right into a fellowship with the district that takes her away from instructing.
On the Golden Globes in early January, sequence stars Chris Perfetti and up to date Celeb Jeopardy! champion Lisa Ann Walter talked with ET about season 3 having “so many great characters” and shared some thrilling new updates.
“I will tell you this, the premiere episode of season 3 is so chock full of new, exciting stuff that you are not expecting that,” Walter, 60, teased. “I can’t even, we’re not allowed to say it obviously. But all I can say is stay tuned. It’s a lot.”
Abbott Elementary airs Wednesdays on ABC at 9 p.m. EST.
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