The Equalizer Spinoff Not Moving Forward At CBS

CBS is not moving forward with a spinoff of The Equalizer, TVLine has confirmed.

The news comes less than 48 hours after the Eye network aired a backdoor pilot starring Titus Welliver (Bosch) and Juani Feliz. Appropriately titled "Sins of the Father," the episode found Queen Latifah's Robyn McCall contacted by Samantha Reed (Feliz) to help track down her father, missing ex-CIA agent Elijah Reed (Welliver). A promo for the episode can be seen below:

The Equalizer, which has not yet been renewed, currently stands as CBS' last remaining bubble show, following the cancellation of Wayans family comedy Poppa's House. Its Season 5 finale — which may have to double as a series finale — airs Sunday, May 4 at 10/9c.

In addition to Latifah, the Equalizer ensemble includes Tory Kittles (as Detective Marcus Dante), Adam Goldberg (as master hacker Harry Keshegian), Liza Lapira (as bar owner/sniper Melody "Mel" Bayani), Laya DeLeon Hayes (as Robyn's daughter Delilah) and Lorraine Toussaint (as Robyn's aunt, Viola "Vi" Marsette).

In additional CBS news: The network has handed series orders to FBI offshoot CIA (starring Lucifer's Tom Ellis), fellow crime-solving procedural Einstein (starring Criminal Minds' Matthew Gray Gubler), and the single-camera workplace comedy DMV (starring Colin From Accounts' Harriet Dyer), and will not proceed with a spinoff of The Neighborhood.

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