NBC has renewed The Carmichael Show for a second season while cancelling fellow comedy Mr. Robinson after one run.
Created by and starring Jerrod Carmichael, The Carmichael Show is a throwback multi-camera sitcom in the Norman Lear mould, built around the Carmichael family thrashing out the hot-button issues of the day, from race and politics to religion and relationships. Loretta Devine and David Alan Grier play Jerrod’s parents, with Amber Stevens West as his girlfriend Maxine and Lil Rel Howery as his brother Bobby. A modest summer launch, it did well enough to earn a return.
Mr. Robinson, which starred Craig Robinson of The Office as a working musician who takes a job teaching music at a school, fared less well in the same summer slot and will not continue beyond its first season.