"The Neighborhood" is ending after eight seasons, and CBS has set the series finale, titled "Welcome to Goodbye," for May 11 at 8 ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+. The Pasadena-set comedy closes with Calvin, the Butler family and their neighbors next door all facing the kind of change the show spent years turning into a joke.
For Cedric the Entertainer, 62, who stars as Calvin and serves as executive producer, the end came with a wrap celebration in February on the decked-out Radford Studio Center soundstage after the final episode was filmed. He said cast members who had been around since the beginning came back, along with people whose storylines had ended in Season 1, and by the end of the night he said he was not crying, only dealing with allergies.
The finale gives the show a proper landing. It wraps up the double marriage of Calvin’s grown sons, Malcolm and Marty, includes the pregnancies of their respective spouses and sends the Johnsons back to the Midwest, ending the family’s run as next-door neighbors in the historically Black Pasadena neighborhood where the series began. That was not guaranteed until the CBS-Paramount Skydance merger in March 2025 gave the comedy a final Season 8.
What makes the ending stand out is that it was built, not imposed. Cedric said the show could leave the story on its own terms, and that the creative team wanted to show life moving forward for the Butlers: happy things arrive, but things go away too. That is a cleaner exit than many long-running sitcoms get, especially one that had spent years balancing neighborhood jokes with family changes.
There was also a version of the future that never made it to air. CBS did not pick up a planned spinoff for the 2025–26 season centered on Malcolm and Marty moving to a new neighborhood, even though the finale itself leans into their next chapter. Cedric said the team tried, but none of the sequels moved ahead.
The show’s last stretch comes as Cedric keeps working elsewhere. He voices Caloo in the animated Netflix film "Swapped," alongside Michael B. Jordan as the woodland creature Ollie, and he recently released the cookbook "AC Barbeque: The Husky and Handsome Guide to Grilling." But for viewers who followed "The Neighborhood" from the start, the final answer is straightforward: yes, it is the neighborhood ending, and CBS is giving it a last night on the schedule instead of an abrupt cutoff.
