{"id":377667,"date":"2026-04-13T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377667\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:51:07","slug":"will-trent-renewed-for-fifth-season-at-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377667\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Will Trent’ Renewed For Fifth Season At ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tABC<\/a> has renewed its hit police drama Will Trent<\/a> for a fifth season.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes as no surprise if you read Deadline\u2019s renewal status reports. As we most recently noted<\/a>, \u201cWill Trent\u00a0is ABC\u2019s top linear draw, ranking as the most-watched ABC scripted series in Live+Same Day viewership. The character procedural is also a favorite among network brass. Its renewal is also a lock.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Karin Slaughter\u2019s New York Times bestselling \u201cWill Trent\u201d book series, Special Agent Will Trent (Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez) of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth. He endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta\u2019s overwhelmed foster care system, alongside his on-and-off again love interest, Angie (Erika Christensen). Now, Will uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Rodr\u00edguez and Christensen, the series stars Iantha Richardson as Faith Mitchell, Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood, Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner and Kevin Daniels as Detective Franklin Wilks. An honorable mention goes out to Will\u2019s dog, Betty.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 4 of\u00a0Will Trent\u00a0is the series\u2019 most-watched season to date, and stands as the first ABC series to grow across each of its first four seasons since\u00a0Scandal\u00a0over a decade ago, as well as the first broadcast series to do so in nearly 14 years, according to Nielsen and the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show currently airs new episodes from its fourth season on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor those keeping track, so far ABC has renewed its hit comedy series Abbott Elementary <\/a>for a sixth season, the long-running medical drama Grey\u2019s Anatomy for a twenty-third season,<\/a> the Kaitlin Olson-led High Potential for a third season,<\/a> as well as 9-1-1 for a tenth season <\/a>and its sister series 9-1-1: Nashville for a second season. The Nathan Fillion-led The Rookie was also renewed this morning<\/a>. Series that are still awaiting decisions include Tim Allen\u2019s sophomore sitcom\u00a0Shifting Gears, as well as two newer entries, Scrubs and RJ Decker.<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers are Liz Heldens, Daniel Thomsen, Karine Rosenthal, Karin Slaughter, Oly Obst, Jason Ensler, Ellen Marie Blum and Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez. Heldens, Thomsen and Rosenthal also serve as showrunners. The series is produced by 20th Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC has renewed its hit police drama Will Trent for a fifth season. The news comes as no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6761,156,111,139,69,3293,437,152931],"class_list":{"0":"post-377667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-renewals","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-will-trent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}