High Potential ended its Season 1 run in February as ABC’s most watched new series in 6 years. A second season is on the way, and it will include “a little bit more” episodes than the 13 the first was comprised of, series star and producer Kaitlin Olson said during the ABC series’ panel at the Deadline Contenders Television event alongside creator/executive producer Drew Goddard and EP/showrunner Todd Harthan.

Goddard recalled getting the renewal call from the network in January on the day he got back to his house in Encino having had to evacuate like so many others impacted by the L.A. fires.

“I called Todd and I said, ‘I’m so grateful right now that we get to be putting people back to work’,” he said, referring to the fact that High Potential is a rare hourlong series filming in Los Angeles amid an industry-wide effort to...