CBS has lined up Justin Long, Kara Royster, Hunter King and Angelique Cabral to guest star in the Season 7 finale of The Neighborhood which will serve as a backdoor pilot for potential spinoff series.
The quartet have options to become series regulars if CBS moves forward with the planted spinoff for the 2025-26 season and will star on the prospective series alongside The Neighborhood’s Marcel Spears and Sheaun McKinney who will move onto the offshoot.
The premise of the spinoff echoes that of the mothership in reverse. It follows Marty (Spears) and Malcolm (McKinney) Butler as they embark on new adventures, 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.
Long will play Bruce, a tech millionaire who is a mix of unjustified confidence and social ineptitude. Cerebral, impulsive and a genius, Bruce has no boundaries or filter when it comes to saying what’s on his mind but deep down there’s a sweetness at his core and his sincerity ultimately wins Marty and Malcolm over.
Royster will play Matisse. A child of privilege, Matisse is Malcolm’s new neighbor and a would-be influencer. On the surface, she’s spoiled rotten but she’s also smart, interesting, sharp and analytical. When her father stopped bending to her every whim, she took it as a wake-up call and is now selling her own fabulousness.
King will play Bellamy. Dark, sardonic and often under the influence of edibles, Bellamy works generating content for the coolest cannabis boutique in SoCal. Despite her jaded outlook, she’s also hilarious, fun and a fiercely loyal friend. Bellamy does have secret dreams of doing something bigger, but for now, she’s content in her carefully curated world of detachment and irony.
Cabral plays Lisa. Impeccably dressed, high energy and unpredictable, Lisa is a fast-talking book agent who seems genuinely passionate about Malcolm’s writing talent and hopes to represent him and take him to the top of the literary world.
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.
The multi-camera spinoff comes from The Neighborhood studio, CBS Studios, and production companies, Cedric the Entertainer’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.
The spinoff reunites King and Cabral with CBS and Kapital; the two were series regulars on the 2015 family comedy Life In Pieces.
Long recently starred in the first season of the Disney+/Hulu anthology series Goosebumps, Indy horror film Night Patrol and crime thriller Stranglehold. He recently wrapped production on the survival thriller Coyote. Long is repped by Independent Artist Group and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Royster is probably best known for her recurring roles on Pretty Little Liars and Dynasty. She is repped by Luber Roklin and The Kohner Agency.
King stars in Hallmark’s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story. She is repped by LINK Entertainment, Gersh and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof & Fishman.
Cabral recently voiced the Queen Amaya in Disney’s animated film Wish and is recurring on the Amazon comedy series Clean Slate. She is repped by IAG, attorney Derek Kroeger and Karen Forman Management.
