The Neighborhood Renewed For Final Season At CBS
The Neighborhood is coming to an end: CBS has renewed the Cedric the Entertainer comedy for an eighth and final season.
"The brilliant cast and creative team at The Neighborhood led by the incomparable Cedric the Entertainer have brought levity, laughter and poignant storylines to Monday nights for seven incredible seasons," CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach said in a statement Monday. "The Neighborhood is a strong ratings performer for CBS and one of the top comedies on TV. We believe the show's loyal fans deserve a proper farewell season full of the trademark humor and heartfelt moments that are synonymous with the series."
Season-to-date, The Neighborhood has been averaging 4.9 million total viewers (with Live+ playback), down 16% from its Season 6 audience. Out of the 10 live-action sitcoms airing on broadcast TV this season, it ranks No. 4 in viewers, trailing only Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts and Shifting Gears.
The Neighborhood began its run in 2018 with a simple premise: What if the friendliest guy from the Midwest moves his family to a neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone looks like him or appreciates his friendliness?
Max Greenfield plays affable Midwesterner Dave Johnson, who, along with his wife Gemma (Beth Behrs) and their son Grover (Hank Greenspan), moves in next door to the cantankerous Calvin Butler (Cedric The Entertainer), his wife Tina (Tichina Arnold) and their two grown-up sons, Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) and Marty (Marcel Spears).
Calvin, a local business owner, is initially displeased when Dave and his family show up. He fears that it's yet another sign that his neighborhood is being gentrified. However, over time, he changes his tune.
As TVLine previously reported, The Neighborhood's current Season 7 — which consists of 20 episodes — will conclude with a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff headlined by McKinney and Spears. The as-yet-untitled offshoot, which is being eyed for the 2025-26 TV season, would see Malcolm and Marty "embark on new adventures, finally leaving their parents' nest to start the next chapter of their lives, finding themselves the newcomers in a neighborhood that's both close but yet world apart: Venice Beach," according to the official logline.
The Malcolm-and-Marty series is separate from the Tracy Morgan-led Crutch. That Neighborhood spinoff, which received a series order in May, will bypass CBS and bow on Paramount+. In that show, Morgan will not reprise his Season 4 role as Calvin Butler's wealthy brother Curtis, but instead play a new character: Calvin's cousin, Francois "Frank" Crutchfield – or, as his friends call him, Crutch — "a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son (Jermaine Fowler) and free-spirited daughter (Adrianna Mitchell) move back home."
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