The Neighborhood universe is eying further expansion with a second spinoff. The upcoming Season 7 finale of the hit CBS comedy series starring Cedric the Entertainer will serve as a planted spinoff headlined by Marcel Spears and Sheaun McKinney.
The premise of the offshoot echoes that of the mothership in reverse. It follows Marty (Marcel Spears) and Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) Butler as they embark on new adve
Marty Butler (Spears) is now a new dad after welcoming a baby with his friend, former co-worker and one-night stand Courtney (Skye Townsend) in the Season 6 finale. It is unclear whether Townsend, who is series regular on The Neighborhood this season, would be part of the spinoff.
The multi-cam offshoot comes from The Neighborhood studio, CBS Studios, and production companies, Cedric’s A Bird and a Bear Entertainment, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV. The Neighborhood showrunners Bill Martin and Mike Schiff executive produce with Cedric the Entertainer, Kaplan, Trilling and Eric C. Rhone.
ntures, finally leaving their parents’ nest to start the next chapters of their lives, finding themselves the newcomers in a neighborhood that’s both close by yet worlds apart: Venice Beach.
Three new characters will be introduced in the planted spinoff (Episode 720) as guest stars with options to become series regulars if CBS moves forward with the project for the 2025-26 season.
The Neighborhood kicked off in 2018 as a white Midwestern family, the Johnsons, moved into a predominantly black neighborhood in Pasadena, California, with the Butlers as their neighbors.
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