Robyn McCall has labored her final case on CBS: The community has canceled The Equalizer after 5 seasons, and the season finale scheduled for Sunday, Could 4, will now be the present’s collection finale.
The motion drama was CBS’ ultimate bubble present, and its cancellation was doubtless financially motivated, contemplating it was a co-production between CBS Studios and out of doors studio Common Tv, in line with Selection, which reported the cancellation.
The Equalizer starred Queen Latifah — who additionally executive-produced the present by her Taste Unit Leisure manufacturing firm — as Robyn, an enigmatic lady with a mysterious background who makes use of her in depth expertise as a former CIA operative to assist these with nowhere else to show, because the present’s logline explains. Lorraine Toussaint, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg, Liza Lapira, and Laya DeLeon Hayes additionally starred within the collection.
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The collection has attracted a mean of 4.26 million complete viewers this season, down almost 32 p.c 12 months over 12 months, in line with TV Sequence Finale. Even so, its common complete viewership nonetheless bests CBS’ renewed collection The Neighborhood, NCIS: Sydney, and NCIS: Origins, per the location.
Latifah reacted to The Equalizer’s cancellation in an Instagram put up on Friday, Could 2. “Stepping right into a kick-ass position like Robyn was every thing I hoped it might be,” she wrote. “[Executive producer] Shakim [Compere] and I at Taste Unit are all the time excited to deliver these sorts of roles and initiatives to life — after which we simply hope you like them as a lot as we do. The Equalizer blew previous each dream we had for it, and having the chance to do that for 5 seasons actually feels surreal.”
Latifah added, “Thanks to our wonderful solid, crew, and producers and writers! And I can’t say sufficient in regards to the followers! Y’all have been so loyal, so loud, and so ride-or-die — and that’s precisely why we preserve doing this. We will’t thanks sufficient. It means the world to us. And don’t fear — I’ll be again kicking ass in one thing new actual quickly. Can’t wait to share it with you. All my [love], QL.”
CBS additionally opted to not transfer ahead with an Equalizer spinoff starring Titus Welliver — the backdoor pilot of which aired on The Equalizer earlier this season — and canceled the procedurals FBI: Worldwide and FBI: Most Wished and sitcom Poppa’s Home lately.
In the meantime, CBS has given the inexperienced gentle to a CIA-based FBI spinoff starring Tom Ellis; the Hearth Nation spinoff Sheriff Nation, starring Morena Baccarin; a Blue Bloods spinoff tentatively known as Boston Blue, starring Donnie Wahlberg; and the comedy DMV. CBS can also be transferring ahead with Einstein, a procedural starring Matthew Grey Gubler, however holding it for the 2026–2027 season.