Kaitlin Olson has been splitting fans’ sides as It’s Always Sunny ’s Sweet Dee for nearly two decades, but will soon hit the 2024 TV schedule with her new show, ABC’s High Potential . I can’t wait to see her taking on a brand new character, but I’m now over the moon after her update regarding when The Gang will be returning to Philadelphia for Season 17 of the FXX fan-favorite. In High Potential , Olson will be playing a whip-smart single mom who takes a job cleaning up a police department, only to find herself tag-teaming with a detective (played by Daniel Sunjata) to help with his casework.
It sounds like a blast, even if it’ll lean more into dramatic storytelling than fans are maybe used to. Thankfully, though, it sounds like she’ll be getting back into self-deprecating form as Dee while audiences are still watching her in ABC’s Fall TV lineup . Speaking with The Playlist , the Hacks co-star revealed when It’s Always Sunny will jump back into filming, and the fun connection the two shows share.
Yeah, so we wrap [High Potential] this in October, and then I think three days later we start shooting Sunny, but it’s on the same lot, so I’ll be in the spring of things. Given that High Potential 's home of ABC shares a parent company with It's Always Sunny 's FXX, the two shows sharing a studio lot perhaps isn’t all that surprising, but it’s still a nifty mini-perk. Kaitlin Olson possibly won’t struggle to get used to her future schedule, since it’.