Season 2 of Shifting Gears is bringing extra visitor stars — and a number of love pursuits for Tim Allen.
ABC launched the official trailer on Wednesday, September 17, which confirmed Eve (Jenna Elfman) and Charlotte (Nancy Travis) returning to the present after beforehand sharing the display with Matt (Allen).
Shifting Gears can be introducing a number of new faces, together with cameos from Lori Greiner, Lilly Singh, Gabriel Iglesias, Mookie Betts and Dwelling Enchancment alums Patricia Richardson, Debbe Dunning and Richard Karn.
Us Weekly beforehand shared an unique first take a look at Allen's reunion together with his former costars. Whereas particulars about how Richardson, 74, Dunning, 59, and Karn, 69, issue into the plot have but to be introduced, ABC beforehand teased that they “present as much as help” Matt (Allen) in “an sudden approach.”
Allen, 72, additionally used his new hit sitcom to reunite with Travis, 63, after she initially performed his spouse on Final Man Standing.
“Charlotte is a catalyst for him. It was enjoyable to play the function of somebody who has a shared expertise with Tim's character, which is true in actual life,” Travis completely instructed Us in February. “We shared the expertise of constructing Final Man Standing and on the identical time my Shifting Gears character is a stranger — simply anyone that Matt meets who can inform his life.”
Regardless of reprising the function of Charlotte in season 2, Travis mentioned she wasn't trying to play Allen's spouse on display once more. (They beforehand performed fictional couple Mike and Vanessa Baxter from 2011 to 2021.)
Tim Allen‘s sitcom Shifting Gears is returning for a second season — however will each forged member be again? The hit ABC sitcom follows father Matt (Allen) and his estranged daughter, Riley (Kat Dennings), as they discover themselves dwelling collectively and dealing to restore their relationship. “From the very starting, [the creative team has said] […]
“It was nice to not play the spouse [this time]. It was nice. It was actually enjoyable to have the ability to simply are available in and have a complete wealth of information and rapport working with Tim. By way of comedic rhythm, understanding find out how to arrange a joke and find out how to inform a narrative collectively, it was nice to have the ability to take that and apply it to Charlotte,” Travis famous on the time. “You marvel how Nancy Travis goes to come back again into this Shifting Gears world and I believe it's a novel and intelligent approach that they've engineered this.”
She added: “I do take pleasure in working with him however I believe that it's enjoyable to discover new and totally different relationships between characters. It is rather meta — possibly too meta. I actually like what they created, which is a soulmate pal. Possibly it's just like the ghost of his ex-wife — Vanessa — who comes within the spirit of anyone else. However I just like the nuances of what they created with this totally different relationship.”
Shifting Gears returns to ABC Wednesday, October 1, at 8 p.m. ET earlier than streaming the following day on Hulu.
