With the release of ABC’s new fall schedule, it showed that midseason comedy, Splitting Up Together, made the cut. The network has renewed the series for a second season.
It is the only freshman ABC comedy to make it to Season 2 with The Mayor essentially being canceled months back when it wasn’t given a back nine order and Alex, Inc, a fellow midseason comedy, also not getting a spot on the schedule next season. It appears that the order is for 13 episodes, probably to test the waters for its return.
Single-camera Splitting Up Together premiered March 27 to solid numbers — 2.1 Live+same day in 18-49 — and 7.2 million viewers — thanks in no small part to being the lead-out of the hugely rated debut of the revived Roseanne. Since then Splitting Up Together has settled in with about half those numbers. With help from the boosted premiere, Splitting Up Together season-to-date average is a 2.1 18-49 in L+7/most recent ratings.
Jenna Fischer and Olliver Hudson star as Lena and Martin, the couple whose marriage is reinvigorated by their divorce. They still live in the same house, alternating weeks, with one living upstairs and doing the parenting while the other lives downstairs in the guest apartment. The comedy also stars Diane Farr, Lindsay Price, Olivia Keville, Van Crosby and Sander Thomas.
