The Catch was a Shondaland entry, which ABC has been particularly fond of over the years.
All five of these shows, not to mention a few others, offered very good reasons for ABC to keep them going.
The Real O’Neals centered on a gay teenager and his family, a more progressive story than TV’s traditional narratives.
Channing Dungey was not accidentally namechecking the ABC shows that were mentioned in her explanation, either, as each quasi-refutes allegations that Last Man Standing’s cancellation was only about Tim Allen’s conservative leanings.