The Neighborhood Will End Its Run After Eight Seasons
CBS Network‘s veteran multi-camera sitcom The Neighborhood has been picked up for an eighth and final season. The encore season will be part of CBS’s 2025-2026 broadcasting season.
Over the past couple of weeks, CBS has been gradually releasing news about the fates of many of its series. So far, there has been a string of cancellations, including FBI: Most Wanted, FBI: International, and S.W.A.T., The Neighborhood was left out of the first round until now. Now, all that remains is the drama The Equalizer.
The Neighborhood follows the antics of a happy-go-lucky white mid-western man, Dave Johnson (Max Greenfield), his wife Gemma (Beth Behrs) and son Grover (Hank Greenspan) and his family as they move to a predominantly Black neighborhood in Pasadena, California. The Johnsons’ extreme neighborliness is not appreciated by everyone in the neighborhood, including their neighbor Calvin Butler (Cedric the Entertainer).
Other main characters include Calvin’s family: his wife Tina (Tichina Arnold) and their two grown sons, Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) and Marty (Marcel Spears).
However, as with most long-running sitcoms, this is not the end for the Neighborhood universe. The upcoming season 7 finale could serve as a backdoor pilot for a spinoff series about the Butler brothers, Marty and Malcom. The brothers will start a new chapter in their lives, moving from Pasadena to Venice Beach, finally living on their own, with Marty’s daughter Daphne.
Although a network has not yet picked up the potential spinoff, it is not the only one. Paramount+ has picked up Crutch, a half-hour comedy series starring Tracy Morgan and a Neighborhood spin-off.
Morgan’s character, Frank Crutchfield, or “Crutch,” is Calvin’s cousin. His empty nest is rudely disrupted when his son and daughter move back in with him.
Ultimately, the decision to cancel comes down to cost. As a long-running series with a cast of many big-name actors, The Neighborhood has become too expensive to justify production. Currently airing on CBS, season 7 has been averaging 6.4 million viewers per episode in its live and 35-day multiplatform viewing.
Catch up on all seven seasons of The Neighborhood on Paramount+.
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