20th Television’s Shifting Gears, starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings, adds two new series regulars to the ABC multi-camera pilot.
Maxwell Simkins, Barrett Margolis
What’s Happening:
- Deadline reports that Maxwell Simkins (The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers) and Barrett Margolis are set to join Shifting Gears (working title) as series regulars.
- The new 20th Television produced pilot stars Tim Allen and Kat Dennings.
- Written by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully, Shifting Gears will follow a headstrong and widowed classic car restorer named Matt (Allen). His life will change dramatically and hysterically when his estranged daughter Riley (Dennings) and her kids move in with him.
- Simkins and Margolis will play Riley’s children, Carter and Georgia.
- Simkins was a series regular for two and a half seasons of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers and appeared on the third season of the Disney Channel comedy Bizaardvark.
- Newcomer Margolis will earn her first credit on Shifting Gears.
- The series is being directed by John Pasquin.
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