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To nan astonishment of noone, location will beryllium nary 2nd play of Paramount+‘s multi-camera drama bid Crutch starring Tracy Morgan.
This is not caller development. The eight-episode first season, which filmed successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage successful autumn 2024, was released connected nan streamer Nov. 3, 2025. The options connected nan formed expired astatine nan extremity of past year, efficaciously ending nan show.
But nan destiny of The Neighborhood offshoot from CBS Studios was sealed earlier successful 2025, pursuing Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount+ and CBS Studios genitor Paramount.
Days aft nan woody closed, Cindy Holland, Chair of Direct-to-Consumer who oversees Paramount+, spoke astir nan programming priorities for nan streamer, admitting that multi-camera comedies won’t beryllium a attraction because CBS is “fantastic” successful nan genre and has each of nan network’s sitcoms are disposable connected Paramount+ adjacent day.
Indeed, Crutch was nan lone remaining original drama bid connected Paramount+. There person been nary drama buys aliases orders, nan streamer doesn’t moreover person a caput of drama (though Jane Wiseman, EVP, Head of Originals, DTC, comes from a drama background.)
Morgan was already attached to Crutch when successful March 2025 he was tapped to prima successful an NBC pilot from 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, which became nan bid The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. He was successful 2nd position to nan NBC bid initially; by nan May 2026 renewal for Season 2, nan show already had him successful first position aft nan lapse of his Crutch option.
The other Crutch cast members person besides moved onto different projects.
Executive produced by Cedric nan Entertainer and Eric C. Rhone and created by Owen Smith who served arsenic executive shaper and showrunner, Crutch was a uncommon multi-camera drama pinch a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Set successful nan world of CBS’ The Neighborhood, Crutch centers connected its titular characteristic Francois “Frank” Crutchfield (Morgan), who goes by “Crutch,” a brash, yet beloved Harlem shop proprietor whose world is turned upside down erstwhile his highbrow boy and free-spirited girl move backmost into nan family home.
Jermaine Fowler, Kecia Lewis, Adrianna Mitchell, Adrian Martinez, Braxton Paul and Finn Maloney starred alonsgside Morgan. Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Entertainment, Wendi Trilling for TrillTV, Mike Mariano and Morgan besides executive produced.
