‘Abbott Elementary’ Creator Quinta Brunson Reflects On Early Season 4 Renewal & Having Bradley Cooper & Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Hurts As Season 3 Guest Stars — Contenders TV
deadline.comThe strike may have delayed and abbreviated the third season of Abbott Elementary but Quinta Brunson went into it feeling pretty confident that her comedy wasn’t going anywhere: she was told that ABC had picked up the series for a fourth season.
While appearing at Deadline’s Contenders TV on Sunday, Brunson — who was joined on stage by Tyler James Williams (Gregory), Chris Perfetti (Jacob) and William Stanford Davis (Mr.
Johnson) — recalled how incredible it felt to know that “ABC trusted us” before they even began production on season 3. The news of the pickup was made public in February at the Television Critics Associaton press tour.
The comedy just wrapped production last week on the third season. Brunson, who plays Janine in the comedy that she created for ABC, said she still marvels at how far her Emmy-winning comedy has come. RELATED: Contenders TV – Deadline’s Full Coverage “We filmed the pilot episode in a school in West Adams,” she said of the south Los Angeles neighborhood where they shot back in 2021. “To go from having to use these real classrooms to have multiple corners of the WB lot, it’s wild to see where we are now.” “When we shot the pilot … I turned to Sheryl Lee Ralph and said, ‘you feel that don’t you?” continued Williams. “There was already a sense that we were on the precipice of something special.
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