Complex sentence: In the second season, the show abruptly changed its setting to the Southern town where John Hartman grew up; he returns to take over the town's failing newspaper, and his wife and several of the other cast members joined him there.
Split into simpler sentences: In the second season, the show abruptly changed its setting to the Southern town where John Hartman grew up. John returns to take over the town's failing newspaper, and his wife and several of the other cast members joined him there.