Medical drama series The Good Doctor - which airs on this side of the pond on Sky Living - has been renewed for a second season by U.S. broadcaster ABC. No word on the size of the episode order for season two, which will air as part of the 2018-2019 season. 
ABC has handed out an early renewal to their veteran comedy series The Middle, TVWise has learned. The show will return for its ninth season during the 2017-2018 broadcast season. 
After recurring on the show's first two seasons, Twin Peaks and 24 alum Ray Wise has been upped to series regular for the third season of ABC's comedy series Fresh Off The Boat. 
ABC is staging a 24 reunion. Mykelti Williamson, who starred in the eighth season of the Fox counter-terrorism drama as the Director of CTU New York, has been tapped for a recurring role in Kiefer Sutherland's new ABC series Designated Survivor He will play Admiral Chernow, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who quickly becomes one of President Kirkman’s (Sutherland) most trusted advisers. 
Despite hopes it would go otherwise, ABC has cancelled their Summer drama Mistresses, based on the BBC One series of the same name, after four seasons. 
The U.S. adaptation of Channel 4 comedy series Raised By Wolves, which is set up Arrowverse super-producer Greg Berlanti's production company, has landed at ABC with a script commitment and hefty penalty, TVWise has confirmed. 
Falling Skies alum Connor Jessup has signed up to return to John Ridley ABC anthology series American Crime for its third season, TVWise has confirmed. Plot details about season three are being kept firmly under wraps, though series creator John Ridley previously revealed that it would be set in North Carolina and will deal with labor issues, economic divides and individual rights.