To the shock of noone, there might be no second season of Paramount+‘s multi-camera comedy collection Crutch starring Tracy Morgan.
This isn’t new growth. The eight-episode first season, which was taped in entrance of a reside viewers in fall 2024, was launched on the streamer Nov. 3, 2025. The choices on the forged expired on the finish of final yr, successfully ending the present.
However the destiny of The Neighborhood offshoot from CBS Studios was sealed earlier in 2025, following Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount+ and CBS Studios father or mother Paramount.
Days after the deal closed, Cindy Holland, Chair of Direct-to-Shopper who oversees Paramount+, spoke concerning the programming priorities for the streamer, admitting that multi-camera comedies received’t be a spotlight as a result of CBS is “incredible” within the style and has all the community’s sitcoms can be found on Paramount+ subsequent day.
Certainly, Crutch was the lone remaining unique comedy collection on Paramount+. There have been no comedy buys or orders, the streamer doesn’t also have a head of comedy (although Jane Wiseman, EVP, Head of Originals, DTC, comes from a comedy background.)
Morgan had already filmed Crutch when in March 2025 he was tapped to star in an NBC pilot from 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, which grew to become the collection The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. He was in second place to the NBC collection initially; by the Could 2026 renewal for Season 2, the present already had him in first place after the lapse of his Crutch possibility.
The opposite Crutch forged members have additionally moved onto different tasks.
Govt produced by Cedric the Entertainer and Eric C. Rhone and created by Owen Smith who served as government producer and showrunner, Crutch was a uncommon multi-camera comedy with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
Set on this planet of CBS’ The Neighborhood, Crutch facilities on its titular character Francois “Frank” Crutchfield (Morgan), who goes by “Crutch,” a brash, but beloved Harlem store proprietor whose world is turned the other way up when his intellectual son and free-spirited daughter transfer again into the household residence.
Jermaine Fowler, Kecia Lewis, Adrianna Mitchell, Adrian Martinez, Braxton Paul and Finn Maloney starred alonsgside Morgan. Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Leisure, Wendi Trilling for TrillTV, Mike Mariano and Morgan additionally government produced.
