The 80s and 90s will continue to live on at ABC. The network has renewed the 80s set comedy The Goldbergs for a seventh season and its 90s set spinoff Schooled for a second season.
The renewal for The Goldbergs was never in doubt but the reason the network took so long to officially announce it was because it was tied with a Season 2 pickup off spinoff, Schooled, which is rumored to be for 13 episodes. Negotiations between ABC and Sony TV for both The Goldbergs and Schooled had been going on for months with typical haggling over business terms between an unaffiliated network and studio. Both shows come from Sony TV.
Launched in 2013, The Goldbergs chronicles creator Adam F. Goldberg’s chaotic but loving family as he grew up in the Reagan era. Sean Giambrone plays Adam, a nerdish movies-obsessed teen who seems to chronicle everything on his camcorder. Wendi McLendon-Covey and Jeff Garlin are his parents Beverly and Maury, with Troy Gentile and Hayley Orrantia as his older siblings. George Segal is the free-spirited but wise grandpa, and Patton Oswalt supplies the Wonder Years-esque narration.
TV Land picked up the Big ’80s sitcom’s first five seasons for off-network cable syndication last year after the reruns had aired on Pop and Nick at Nite. Airing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, The Goldbergs drew 4.6 million viewers for its April 10 episode and posted a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demo.
Set in the 90s, spinoff Schooled follows the faculty of William Penn Academy, led by new music teacher and WP graduate Lainey Lewis (AJ Michalka), Principal Glascott (Tim Meadows), Coach Mellor (Bryan Callen) and young, enthusiastic super-teacher Charlie Brown, or CB for short (Brett Dier). Despite their eccentricities and crazy personal lives, these teachers are heroes to their students. The characters played by Michalka, Callen, and Meadows are Goldbergs veterans.
The midseason-replacement series aired at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, between The Goldbergs and Modern Family. After bowing with 4.82 million viewers and a 1.3 demo rating before settling in at between a 0.8 and 1.1 for most of its 13-episode run.
