Daily Mail Reports: Shifting Gears starring Tim Allen has become a surprise hit on both ABC and Hulu, new numbers show. Since its debut in January, the Disney-backed sitcom has secured an average of 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Several experts who spoke to The Wall Street Journal this week are chalking it up to the so-called 'Trump effect.'

The show, starring an outspoken Trump supporter played by Allen, is being bolstered by an array of other programming across the industry some might view as right-leaning. 

Whether it be an increasingly centered Bill Maher interviewing Kid Rock on 'Real Time' or A&E bringing back 'Duck Dynasty', it's clear Hollywood has reconsidered its programming.

Such a shift could be called sudden when put up against programming of years' past, when dramas like 'The West Wing' and HBO's 'The Newsroom' dominated the industry.

Decades later, it's become apparent producers who once politicized shows to take aim at Republicans are being given less prominent platforms - as news networks also shift operations early on in Trump's presidency.

A series of television agents and executives spoke to Journal about the dynamic, and how any hint of programming that could be perceived as 'woke' is seemingly being scrubbed.

Further fueling it are the president's legal battles with channels like ABC News and CBS's '60 Minutes', they said - likely leaving execs like Disney boss Bob Iger, not to mention Amazon Studio's Jeff Bezos, to take note. 

'There is a course correction when it comes to entertainment,' Dan Abrams, host and executive producer of 'On Patrol: Live,' told the Journal Monday of what he framed as a clandestine campaign.

'There has been a bit of a wake-up call - not just in Trump being elected but in the lead-up as well.'