Bless This Mess
originally aired on ABC
The half-hour program was intended as a series for Fox after it had ordered a pilot. It was picked up by ABC and added to its 2018–19 Tuesday night lineup, debuting on April 16, 2019. In May 2019, ABC renewed the series for a second season which premiered on September 24, 2019. In May 2020, the series was canceled after two seasons.
Mike and Rio move to a farm in Bucksnort, Nebraska, that Mike inherited from his great-aunt. They find it badly neglected and occupied by a senile old man named Rudy Longfellow. Deciding to stay, they restore and try to run the farm and find themselves adapting to the strange, tightly knit community.