Welcome Tim Allen back to the land of multicamera sitcom, for a third run in a form that has treated him well. "Home Improvement" ran for eight seasons on ABC and is arguably what allowed him to become a film star;

S itcom stars and birthday-sharers Tim Allen and Kat Dennings are currently teamed up for the newest ABC comedy on the 2025 TV schedule, Shifting Gears, with fellow small-screen v

Shifting Gears, an all-star sitcom featuring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings and premiering Jan. 8 on ABC, opts for a third and dispiritingly familiar approach: pay repeated and tedious lip service to cultural divides via canned rants and musty ripostes, uniting everyone in the purgatorial state of soundstage banter.