F rom the audacious Stiffler on American Pie to the bumbling stoner in Dude, Where’s My Car?, Seann William Scott is not exactly who you might think of when hearing about a new

Shifting Gears stars Seann William Scott and Daryl “Chill” Mitchell spoke to ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese about ABC’s new sitcom. The hilarious show, which is headlined by Tim Allen and Kat Dennings,

Kat Dennings may have taken a hard right turn, but Tim Allen hasn’t budged. In “Shifting Gears,” he’s the same character we discovered in “Home Improvement” and “Last Man Standing.”

"This show is about how wonderful people have horrible things happen to them, and they stay human. They don't fall apart," Allen told Yahoo Entertainment.

Shifting Gears' stars Tim Allen, Kat Dennings talk on set fun and fab cars. The new sitcom premieres Wednesday at 8p|7c on ABC.

Michelle Nader tells TheWrap how "Shifting Gears" hopes to modernize sitcoms without losing "the parts that we love"

The best thing I can say about "Shifting Gears," ABC's new Tim Allen-rants-about-woke ... (Daryl “Chill” Mitchell) and Gabriel (Seann William Scott). How much can one man handle?

Allen plays the owner of a car restoration garage in the new comedy, which costars Kat Dennings as his estranged daughter.

Allen’s Matt is a beleaguered widower, lonely after his wife’s recent passing. He runs an auto shop that fixes up old cars (the man can never be too far from a tool chest), which he keeps pristinely clean and organized, just like his home.

Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.

Tim Allen’s new ABC sitcom “Shifting Gears” is revving its ratings engine. According to ABC, the series now stands as the most-watched ABC series premiere on streaming to date, via first seven days of views on both Hulu and the Hulu portion of Disney+.

In the seven days since it debuted on January 8, the first episode has amassed nearly 17M multi-platform viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, Disney says. That’s a 173% lift over the episode’s already fairly impressive same-day audience of 6.2M.