“The Neighborhood” is ending on CBS after eight seasons, and the farewell comes with a title that says exactly what it is: “Welcome to Goodbye.” The series finale airs May 11 at 8 ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.

Cedric the Entertainer, 62, said the wrap party in February felt less like a shutdown than a reunion. Cast members including Max Greenfield, Sheaun McKinney and Tichina Arnold were there, along with actors whose storylines had ended in Season 1 and who still came back for the celebration. “It was a blast,” he said. By the end of the night, he added, he was not crying but dealing with “allergies.”

That ending lands after CBS gave the comedy a final Season 8 in March 2025 amid the CBS-Paramount Skydance merger, a decision that also left a planned spinoff on the cutting room floor. The proposed offshoot, which would have followed Malcolm and Marty after they moved to a new neighborhood, was not picked up for the 2025–26 season. The result is that the main show gets a clean finish, while the next chapter never starts.

Created by Jim Reynolds, the Pasadena-set comedy follows Calvin and the Butler family after the Johnsons move next door in a historically Black neighborhood. The finale ties off the double marriage of Calvin’s grown sons Malcolm and Marty and includes the pregnancies of their spouses. It also sends the Johnsons away from Pasadena and back to the Midwest, closing the loop on the family’s run next door.

For Cedric, that is the rare kind of exit television almost never gives. He said the best part was being able to leave the story on the family’s own terms, instead of learning the show was not coming back after the fact. “Of course, this is the kind of show you wish you could do forever,” he said, “but eight seasons is a long time. And we feel blessed.”

The wrap party also showed how much of the cast had stayed connected since the start. Cedric said there were cast and crew who had been with the show forever, plus people whose storylines ended in Season 1 who still showed up. That kind of turnout is the strongest sign that the show’s ending is not a quiet cancellation story but a deliberate goodbye to a world that held together longer than most sitcoms do.

“The great thing about it is we were able to leave the story on our own terms,” Cedric said. “Many shows don’t get that. They just find out they’re not coming back. And it’s like, ‘Whoa!’” He said the finale was built to show that “life just keeps moving forward and changes for the Butlers,” because “happy things come to the family, but things go away, too.”

That is the answer to the question of whether the neighborhood is ending. The show itself is, but the farewell is organized, finished and on purpose. What disappears is the weekly version of the Butlers and Johnsons; what remains is a final episode that closes the door rather than leaving it cracked open for a sequel that will not happen.

Cedric also has other projects moving. He stars in the animated Netflix film “Swapped,” where he voices Caloo, alongside Michael B. Jordan as the woodland creature Ollie. He also released the cookbook “AC Barbeque: The Husky and Handsome Guide to Grilling,” a reminder that even as one long-running TV family signs off, its center has already moved on to other jobs.