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First question of Tim Allen's Last Man Standing TCA Q&A: Is or is not Mike Baxter a Donald Trump supporter now that he’s on Fox? After some guffawing from the stage about that being the first question, Allen said it is a “legitimate question" and answered he thinks the guy is likely a "centrist” – the same expression…

The upcoming revival of the Tim Allen-starring comedy series Last Man Standing on Fox continues to reassemble the team of the original series with a group of executive producers who all had long tenures on the show during its initial run on ABC. Kevin Abbott, who served as an executive producer on the original series…

Fox has given an off-cycle pilot order to Cool Kids, a multi-camera comedy from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia masterminds Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton. Written by Day and Paul Fruchbom, with comedy veteran Kevin Abbott set as showrunner, Cool Kids revolves around three guy friends in a retirement…

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Kevin Abbott, creator/executive producer/showrunner of new ABC comedy series Malibu Country and executive producer of the network’s sophomore comedy Last Man Standing, has gone on indefinite medical leave from the two shows after checking himself into a rehab facility. I hear Abbott, a…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. It’s still a single-camera comedy world in broadcast network primetime. Only two new four-camera comedies are premiering this fall. But the exec producer of one of them, Kevin Abbott, is determined to keep the fire burning for the form, as he maintained during a TCA…

Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt is leaving the freshman ABC comedy series. Veteran comedy showrunner Kevin Abbott is expected to take over the reins of the show after Thanksgiving if he gets a sign-off from TV Land, where he is under contract. For 20th Century Fox TV, which produces Last Man Standing, Abbott…

Reba McEntire is returning to TV with Malibu Country, a multicamera comedy starring and executive produced by the country star/actress. ABC has handed out a put pilot commitment to the project, which reunites McEntire with key auspices of her successful 2001 the WB sitcom Reba. Former Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott will…