{"id":506390,"date":"2026-03-06T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506390\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:40:08","slug":"high-potential-renewed-for-season-3-at-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506390\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018High Potential\u2019 Renewed For Season 3 At ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHigh Potential<\/a> is returning to ABC<\/a> for a third season with a new showrunner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe renewal is not a surprise given that the light procedural, which stars Kaitlin Olson, is one of the Disney network\u2019s top drama with strong performance across linear and streaming.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the series is searching for a new showrunner with the exit of Todd Harthan, who is leaving to focus on Eragon, the live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini\u2019s YA book series <\/a>The Inheritance Cycle,<\/a> which he is co-creating with Paolini and will serve as co-showrunner on with Todd Helbing.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarthan has an overall deal with 20th Television, which is also the studio for High Potential.<\/p>\n

\n\tHigh Potential stars It\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Olson as Morgan, a single mother with an IQ of 160 working a cleaning lady at the Los Angeles Police Department who becomes a consultant for the LAPD\u2019s Major Crimes division.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt also stars Daniel Sunjata as Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev \u201cOz\u201d Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot and Judy Reyes as Selena.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is currently in the back half of its second season with the Major Crimes unit investigating a complicated murder and Morgan dealing with her kids growing up.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHarthan recently told Deadline<\/a> that the end of Season 2 will be a \u201cjust as satisfying, if not even more exhilarating push-off into a potential Season 3.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat we\u2019re plotting and planning, it has a different flavor than what we did last year, but I think it\u2019s gonna be even more personal, even more propulsive, even more surprising than what we did in Season 1, because we\u2019ve learned some things and the characters have gotten richer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tHigh Potential, created by Drew Goddard based on the French series\u00a0HPI, kicked off 2026 in a new timeslot, airing an hour earlier at 9pm. Over its first seven days, the episode tallied 12.33M viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms<\/a>, leading the show\u2019s fall season average by about 3%, per a combination of Nielsen data and internal streaming data. The episode is up 7% from the show\u2019s fall finale, which managed 11.52M viewers in seven days.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show was the second most-watched in the first five weeks of the year, per Nielsen data, with an average of 13.24M viewers, just below Paramount+\u2019s Landman.<\/p>\n

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\n\tExec producers include Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles with Olson as producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is one of a number of renewals<\/a> made by ABC this week. Yesterday, the network renewed Abbott Elementary for Season 6<\/a> and this morning it renewed 9-1-1 for Season 10 and 9-1-1: Nashville\u00a0for Season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High Potential is returning to ABC for a third season with a new showrunner. The renewal is not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1855,88,5920,218],"class_list":["post-506390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-high-potential","tag-renewals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}