‘High Potential’ Renewed For Season 3 At ABC

High Potential is returning to ABC for a third season with a new showrunner.

The renewal is not a surprise given that the light procedural, which stars Kaitlin Olson, is one of the Disney network’s top drama with strong performance across linear and streaming.

But the series is searching for a new showrunner with the exit of Todd Harthan, who is leaving to focus on Eragon, the live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s YA book series The Inheritance Cycle, which he is co-creating with Paolini and will serve as co-showrunner on with Todd Helbing.

Harthan has an overall deal with 20th Television, which is also the studio for High Potential.

High Potential stars It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Olson as Morgan, a single mother with an IQ of 160 working a cleaning lady at the Los Angeles Police Department who becomes a consultant for the LAPD’s Major Crimes division.

It also stars Daniel Sunjata as Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev “Oz” Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot and Judy Reyes as Selena.

The show is currently in the back half of its second season with the Major Crimes unit investigating a complicated murder and Morgan dealing with her kids growing up.

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Harthan recently told Deadline that the end of Season 2 will be a “just as satisfying, if not even more exhilarating push-off into a potential Season 3.”

“What we’re plotting and planning, it has a different flavor than what we did last year, but I think it’s gonna be even more personal, even more propulsive, even more surprising than what we did in Season 1, because we’ve learned some things and the characters have gotten richer,” he added.

High Potential, created by Drew Goddard based on the French series HPI, kicked off 2026 in a new timeslot, airing an hour earlier at 9pm. Over its first seven days, the episode tallied 12.33M viewers across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, leading the show’s fall season average by about 3%, per a combination of Nielsen data and internal streaming data. The episode is up 7% from the show’s fall finale, which managed 11.52M viewers in seven days.

The show was the second most-watched in the first five weeks of the year, per Nielsen data, with an average of 13.24M viewers, just below Paramount+’s Landman.

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Exec producers include Goddard and Sarah Esberg of Goddard Textiles with Olson as producer.

It is one of a number of renewals made by ABC this week. Yesterday, the network renewed Abbott Elementary for Season 6 and this morning it renewed 9-1-1 for Season 10 and 9-1-1: Nashville for Season 2.