It’s a sad reality in the world of television that even the most beloved TV shows don’t last forever (although “The Simpsons,” renewed through to its 40th season, might prove that wrong).
With that in mind, read on for a rundown of all the shows that CBS has chosen to end this year.
‘The Neighborhood’
CBSDebuting in 2018, “The Neighborhood” focused on the relationship between married couple Calvin and Tina Butler (Cedric the Entertainer and Tichina Arnold) and their next-door neighbors, Dave and Gemma Johnson (Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs).
As star Cedric the Entertainer observed in a 2025 interview with The Knockturnal, the show had a knack for being able to “tap into the humor of the commonality of people” as “The Neighborhood” grew to become one of the network’s most popular shows.
“We started off with a premise that was, especially at that time, this idea of gentrification that our Black neighborhoods were starting to be taken back over by people that are moving in, raising the housing prices, bringing in the greater goods and services, once the White families move in,” he said.
Despite its high ratings, it was ironically the success of “The Neighborhod” that led to its cancellation after eight seasons. Ultimately, the increased cost of production and the stars’ demands for salary increases led CBS to the decision that another season would be too expensive to produce.
“After eight seasons, everybody needed raises and that’s when you knew, ‘Alright this show is getting ready to be done,'” Cedric said during an appearance on The Breakfast Club, revealing that CBS offered him a raise — but not his co-stars.
“You want everybody to eat with you … I’m not getting ready to be that guy where I’m just the only one eating,” he explained.
‘DMV’
CBSThis single-camera workplace comedy in the vein of “The Office” was set in a Department of Motor Vehicles branch in East Hollywood. Among the series’ stars were “Saturday Night Live” alums Tim Meadows and Molly Kearney, along with Harriet Dyer, Tony Cavalero, Gigi Zumbado and Alex Tarant.
CBS pulled the plug on “DMV” after just one season. The reason: sagging ratings, with the show never quite gaining enough viewers to make the series profitable.
Still, the show managed to attract a small but loyal fanbase, some of who aired their disappointment on social media.
“I loved it! It was a show that didn’t invoked cops finding dead people. Refreshing!!” read one comment, while another added, “So sad it’s cancelled. I hope someone else picks it up.”
‘Watson’
CBSA procedural crime drama centered on the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, “Watson” starred Morris Chestnut as the titural Dr. John Watson. Head of a medical clinic, Watson solved medical myseries after the death of his pal Sherlock.
CBS cancelled “Watson” before it completed its second season, citing disappointing ratings, which had fallen precipitously after the promising first season. By the time is season finale aired, “Watson” had the distinction of being the network’s lowest-rated scripted drama.
‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’
CBSRatings were not the reason behind CBS’s decision to shutter “The Late Show,” which was by far the highest-rated of all three network late-night shows.
When CBS announced the show’s cancellation last year, the network claimed the show was simply too expensive to produce, and was losing millions each year. However, suspicions arose there was more to the cancellation than that, with the announcement arriving days after host Stephen Colbert jokingly criticized his network’s parent company, Paramount Global, for settling a US$16-million lawsuit with Donald Trump that cleared the regulatory path for the company’s sale to Skydance CEO David Ellison.
The Writers Guild of America issued a statement expressing that its members had “significant concerns that The Late Show’s cancellation is a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favour with the Trump administration as the companylooks for merger approval.”
The series ended in May, with the grand finale scoring the series’ biggest ratings ever, watched by 6.74 million viewers.
