Shifting Gears is a new sitcom with a classic and funny cast on ABC!
Shifting Gears premieres January 8, 2025 on ABC at 8 pm Eastern. The series follows stubborn Baby Boomer Matt, the widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop; when Matt’s estranged daughter Riley and her kids move into his house, the real restoration is set to begin. Bickering and bonding take center stage in this family fun sitcom.
In Shifting Gears, this father and daughter duo constantly but heads and have conflicting ideals about…..EVERYTHING. Having Riley’s impressionable kids in tow adds to the shady yet witty banter, continual expressions of disdain, and miniscule arguing between dad and daughter as they begin to settle in all under the same roof.
The cast of Shifting Gears stars Tim Allen as Matt, Kat Dennings as Riley, Seann William Scott as Gabriel, Daryl Mitchell as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter, and Barrett Margolis and Georgia.
Shifting Gears is a funny, fresh, and well casted modern day family dramedy on ABC. Tim Allen is effortlessly good in any role that highlights a disgruntled dad and now a disgruntled and grumpy “Papa” with grandkids. His love of cars is a bright spot in his life, however, his distaste and begrudged attitude towards all things “woke”, ultra digital, and almost all modernized societal parenting norms makes this series thoroughly entertaining and hilarious.
As both Riley and Matt work on their grief over her mothers death, their bond is still a work in progress. The more time Matt spends with his grandkids, the more he realizes the importance of building new bridges and repairing old relationships for families sake, BUT its going to take a lot of sacrifice and getting used too. He is one old school and traditional minded “Papa”!
New episodes of Shifting Gears will release weekly on Wednesday on CBS at 8 pm Eastern and available to stream the next day on Hulu.