Yahoo Lifestyle ‘High Potential’ Renewed For Season 2 By ABC
ABC has handed an early Season 2 renewal to its breakout new crime drama High Potential. The light procedural starring Kaitlin Olson joins ABC’s flagship comedy Abbott Elementary in securing a spot on the network’s 2025-26 schedule. High Potential also joins the other standout 2024-25 freshman drama, CBS’ Matlock, in landing an early Season 2 renewal. Both were series originally ordered for last season but delayed due of the strikes.
The size of High Potential‘s Season 2 order is TBD but is expected to be larger than Season 1, which consists of 13 episodes. Because of the show’s atypical production schedule and Olson’s commitment to her other series regular job on FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, filming on Season 1 had to wrap after its initial 13-episode order.
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High Potential, created by Drew Goddard based on the French series HPI, has been a runaway success, with the pilot episode generating nearly 30 million total viewers to date across platforms. Attracting younger audiences, the procedural ranks as the No. 1 broadcast entertainment series among adults 18-49 (2.34 L7 cross-platform rating).
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The renewal news comes on the heels of High Potential‘s winter return on Jan. 7 hitting series highs in total viewers and adults 18-49 after seven days of multi-platform viewing, delivering ABC’s largest audience for a drama in over four years.
In High Potential, Olson stars 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’s Major Crimes division.
The cast of the series also includes Daniel Sunjata as Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev “Oz” Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot and Judy Reyes as Selena.
Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles and showrunner Todd Harthan serve as executive producers, Olson serves as producer. 20th Television is the studio.
Episode 10, “Chutes and Murders,” premieres tonight. In it, a nanny is found bludgeoned to death in the park. Elsewhere, Morgan interferes when Elliot admits to not being invited to his classmate’s party.
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