23h06 PDT 4/5/2021
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Abid Rahman
Reynolds leaves the sitcom after three seasons with reports of complaints about his leadership style.
Jim Reynolds, the creator, executive producer and showrunner of The Neighborhood, is leaving the CBS sitcom The Hollywood Reporter confirmed.
Reynolds is leaving the series after three seasons, with emerging reports that there were complaints about his leadership style, including race-related issues. Deadline reports that two black writers left the program after finishing work on season 3.
CBS declined to comment.
The Neighborhood tells the story of the Johnson family, overly serious Midwesterners, who move to a predominantly black neighborhood in Pasadena. The cast includes Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield, Sheaun McKinney, Marcel Spears, Hank Greenspan, Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs.
The Neighborhood ended its third season in March and was renewed for a fourth.
Deadline was the first to report the news of Reynolds’s departure from The Neighborhood.