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‘Abbott Elementary’: How The Season 3 Premiere Explains Strike-Delayed Mid-School Year Start
Abbott Elementary executive producers spoke with Deadline about figuring out how to explain Season 3's mid-school year start
Abbott Elementary returned to ABC Wednesday, kicking off Season 3 a bit later than expected due to last year’s lengthy work stoppages during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. It’s a unique challenge that most returning series starting later in the broadcast season wouldn’t necessarily have to face, requiring the writers to explain in the premiere episode why viewers were just now tuning in, mid-way through the school year. In order to make the premiere as satisfying as possible, Schumacker joked, “the whiteboard in the writers room looked like Kevin Feige giving an MCU presentation, trying to like track all of the timelines and everything.
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