Details

Release year: 2021

Storyline

A workplace comedy centered on a group of dedicated teachers - and an oblivious principal - in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life.

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Cast

Quinta Brunson — Janine Teagues
Tyler James Williams — Gregory Eddie
Janelle James — Ava Coleman
Lisa Ann Walter — Melissa Schemmenti

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Awards

4 wins & 26 nominations

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Did you know

• During a February 2022 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air (1975)," Quinta Brunson said that when the show was an unexpected ratings and critics' hit right away, she and the rest of the producers decided to take some of the money that had been budgeted for advertising and other marketing and use it instead to buy supplies for real teachers.

• Quinta Brunson based the series on her mother's experiences as an elementary school teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• On 25 May 2022, Quinta Brunson refused to make a school shooting episode of Abbott Elementary because "people are that deeply removed from demanding more of the politicians they elected and are instead demanding entertainment."