Hilary Swank came to network television in the 2022-2023 TV season as the star of ABC's Alaska Daily. It's a rare freshman show that can debut with the star power of a two-time Academy Award-winner, and ABC even gave it the enviable time slot directly following Grey's Anatomy on Thursday nights. Alaska Daily had a recipe for success from when it first premiered as part of the 2022 fall TV schedule, but the first season ended without news of a second. So, let's look into what we know about the show's chances of returning for another batch of episodes!
The eleven-episode first season of Alaska Daily centered on Hilary Swank's Eileen Fitzgerald, a reporter who left her high-profile life in New York behind in disgrace, to seek redemption with a metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska. The show was ABC's only new fall series of the 2022-2023 TV season, although the network did debut police procedural Will Trent (based on Karin Slaughter's novels) and Milo Ventimiglia's The Company You Keep early in 2023. The Season 1 finale of Swank's show aired on March 30, without confirmation of whether or not more episodes are on the way. Fortunately, the ratings paint an interesting picture for speculation.
