Yahoo Lifestyle CBS Eyeing New Neighborhood Spinoff — Which Two Original Cast Members Will Star?
CBS is looking to turn another successful sitcom into a full-blown franchise.
The network is developing an offshoot of its long-running comedy The Neighborhood that would spin off Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney) and Marty (Marcel Spears). The mothership’s Season 7 finale will serve as a backdoor pilot and introduce three new characters who would join Calvin and Tina’s sons as they venture out on their own. Sources tell TVLine that the trio consists of a socially inept tech millionaire, a wannabe influencer and a content generator for a SoCal cannabis shop.
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The as-yet-untitled spinoff, 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.
Current Neighborhood showrunners Bill Martin and Mike Schiff will pen the script, and executive-produce alongside Cedric the Entertainer, Aaron Kaplan, Wendi Trilling and Eric C. Rhone.
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+. As previously reported, 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.”
Development on a second Neighborhood offshoot follows CBS’ successful launch of Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, the second spinoff (following Young Sheldon) derived from The Big Bang Theory.
In addition to McKinney and Spears, The Neighborhood currently stars Cedric the Entertainer (as Calvin), Max Greenfield (as Dave), Tichina Arnold (as Tina), Beth Behrs (as Gemma), Skye Townsend (as Courtney) and Hank Greenspan (as Grover). Season 7 resumes with new episodes Monday, Jan. 27 at 8/7c on CBS (with episodes streaming next day on Paramount+).
A decision on whether The Neighborhood will return for an eighth season is expected to be made in the spring.
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