CBS original comedy The Neighborhood is getting a spinoff series with two main characters. According to Deadline, the spinoff series follows Marty (Marcel Spears, The Mayor, Always a Bridesmaid) and Malcolm (Sheaun McKinney, Bitchass, Vice Principals) as they leave their parents behind and embark on new adventures starting a new chapter of their lives. The brothers become transplants of a new neighborhood, Venice Beach, which might as well be a new world. CBS has set an episode, number 720, later this season to act as the planted spinoff.
According to Deadline, the potential Marty and Malcom spinoff will introduce three new characters. There’s no word on who these characters will be, but Skye Townsend’s (A Black Lady Sketch Show, Pretty Stoned) Courtney could be one of them. Courtney became a Neighborhood series regular after she and her former coworker, Marty, welcomed a child in the season six finale.
The Neighborhood premiered in 2018 and follows a white midwestern family’s move to a mostly Black neighborhood in Pasadena, California. Marty And Malcolm’s parents, played by Cedric the Entertainer (Johnson Family Vacation, Barbershop) and Tichina Arnold (Everybody Hates Chris, Martin), become the reluctant neighbors to Max Greenfield’s (New Girl, The Valet) Dave and Beth Behrs’ (2 Broke Girls, Hello, My Name is Doris) Gemma. Six seasons later, the two families exist in harmony.
Deadline reports the spinoff will be produced by CBS Studios, with Cedric’s A Bird and Bear Entertainment, Aaron Kaplan’s (Fast Break, The Love Boat) Kapital Entertainment, and Wendi Trilling’s (Future Shock, Dinner and Driving) TrillTV. Cedric the Entertainer, Kaplan, Trilling, and Eric C. Rhone (The Johnson Family Vacation, Dance Fu) are executive producers along with showrunners Bill Martin (3rd Rock From the Sun, The Soul Man) and Mike Schiff (NCIS, Shameless). The spinoff joins the upcoming Paramount+ multi-camera comedy, Crutch, headlined by Tracy Morgan (Little Man, The Last O.G). Morgan appeared as Cedric’s Calvin Butler’s cousin, Grutch.