EXCLUSIVE: The prodigal son returns. After a season and a half, the ABC comedy sequence Shifting Gears is lastly introducing the customarily talked about however by no means seen Sam Parker, Matt Parker’s (Tim Allen) son and Riley Parker’s (Kat Dennings) brother.
Luke Macfarlane (Platonic) has been forged as Sam who, as beforehand revealed on the present, is a Navy hero. Macfarlane will visitor star on Shifting Gears later this season.
“We hope to introduce Sam in Season 2,” Shifting Gears government producer/showrunner Michelle Nader advised TVLine after the Season 1 finale final spring. “We expect he might be one other enjoyable casting alternative and an important character for everybody to complain to!”
Shifting Gears follows Matt (Allen), the cussed, widowed proprietor of a basic automobile restoration store. When his estranged daughter, Riley (Dennings), and her youngsters transfer into his home, the true restoration begins.
Additionally starring on the twentieth Tv-produced sequence are Seann William Scott as Gabriel, Daryl Chill Mitchell as Sew, Maxwell Simkins as Carter and Barrett Margolis as Georgia.
Allen government produces alongside Nader, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Richard Baker, Rick Messina, John Pasquin, Jim Patterson, Bob Day by day and John Amodeo. Kat Dennings is a producer.
Macfarlane is a sequence common reverse Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen on Apple TV’s comedy Platonic, which has been renewed for a 3rd season. The Brothers & Sisters alum additionally was a sequence common on Syfy’s Killjoys and PBS’ Mercy Avenue and has starred in a slew of Hallmark motion pictures. He just lately hosted and government produced the house renovation sequence Dwelling Is The place the Coronary heart Is for Hallmark+.
In options, Macfarlane starred reverse Billy Eichner within the homosexual rom-com Bros and will subsequent be seen reverse Olivia Holt within the IFC apocalyptic thriller This Is Not a Check, which comes out Feb. 20. He’s repped by Leisure 360, IAG and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
Shifting Gears airs Wednesdays at 8PM on ABC and streams subsequent day on Hulu.
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