Fans of Daryl Mitchell, who have seen him in 'Fear the Walking Dead' and now 'Shifting Gears,' are wondering why he is in a wheelchair.

The sitcom world got a boost with Shifting Gears, starring Kat Dennings and Tim Allen. The premiere set records as ABC’s most-watched streaming debut and its strongest opening since The Conners.

The series also stars Seann William Scott, Daryl Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis. Jenna Elfman will be a recurring guest star.

Allen’s Matt is a beleaguered widower, lonely after his wife’s recent passing. He runs an auto shop that fixes up old cars (the man can never be too far from a tool chest), which he keeps pristinely clean and organized, just like his home.

Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.

ABC's latest sitcom unites "Home Improvement" actor Tim Allen with "2 Broke Girls" star Kat Dennings as an estranged father-daughter duo.

Kat Dennings may have taken a hard right turn, but Tim Allen hasn’t budged. In “Shifting Gears,” he’s the same character we discovered in “Home Improvement” and “Last Man Standing.”

Mitchell is well known for his roles as Wendell in Fear the Walking Dead and Mr. Morgan in 10 Things I Hate About You.

Following its series debut last January, ABC announced that Tim Allen‘s newest comedy show Shifting Gears has officially set a new audience record. 2 Broke Girls vet Kat Dennings also leads the sitcom.

In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, Disney says. That’s a 173% lift over the episode’s already fairly impressive same-day audience of 6.2M.

The "Abbott Elementary" and "It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia" crossover also marked a series high with more than 8 million viewers The post ‘Shifting Gears’ With Tim Allen Becomes ABC’s Best Series Launch in 6 Years With 17 Million Viewers | Exclusive appeared first on TheWrap.

Tim Allen ‘s new ABC sitcom “Shifting Gears” is revving its ratings engine. According to ABC, the series now stands as the most-watched ABC series premiere on streaming to date, via first seven days of views on both Hulu and the Hulu portion of Disney+.