Abbott Elementary's season six trailer opens at nearly five hundred times ABC's usual pace
Barbara's hair, Ava's timing and a familiar face from another ABC sitcom are what the comments under the trailer keep coming back to.
ABCStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 718,779 views a day, 475 times a normal first day on this channel (1,513).
Abbott Elementary | Season 6 Official Trailer
How many people were waiting for Abbott Elementary to come back? Enough to give the season six trailer around 400,000 views in its first nine hours. That puts it on course for a first day nearly five hundred times what a new upload on ABC's channel usually gets.
The network spent the same stretch posting promos for its other big nights. There were Shark Tank clips with MrBeast and Sara and Erin Foster as guest Sharks, and a reminder about the Scrubs two-episode premiere. Most of them sat in the hundreds or low thousands of views. The trailer for a mockumentary about teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia public school is the one doing the work.
The show was created by Quinta Brunson, who also plays the relentlessly hopeful second-grade teacher Janine Teagues. The description calls viewers "Abbott Elementarians" and points them to the season premiere on Wednesday, October 7, on ABC, with streaming on Hulu.
The comment section reads like a staff-room roll call. The top comments are about Barbara's new hairstyle, the veteran teacher played by Sheryl Lee Ralph. Others point to a classic Ava moment, Janelle James's principal cutting off a line just in time, and to a scene with Mr. Johnson, the janitor, about a minute in. Several viewers notice that characters seem to have new jobs this season, and one reads Gregory Eddie as the new assistant principal. A widely liked comment thinks it spots the mom from American Housewife, another ABC comedy, in the cast. Someone else is simply glad the staff still ends up line dancing.
A week before the premiere, the trailer is ABC's busiest video by a long way.
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What viewers say
BARBARA NEW HAIRSTYLE ALERT!!!! YAAASSSSSSS
@anggadextrous68See it on YouTubeFinally, Eddie is Assistant Principal 😂
@misscychildsSee it on YouTubeI love that they still end up line dancing 😂
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- Channel
- ABC
- Subscribers
- 3,290,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 5,976,249 (on a normal day: 1,235,785)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 404,982 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 718,779
The numbers
The figures below show how far this trailer has outpaced a typical first day on ABC's channel.
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In which city is Abbott Elementary set?
The show follows teachers at a fictional public elementary school in Philadelphia, Quinta Brunson's hometown.
