In the network’s commitment to get out of the “sitcom business,” the CW has cancelled Everybody Hates Chris. There won’t be a fifth season but luckily series creator Chris Rock beat them to the punch.
Everybody Hates Chris is loosely based on Rock’s early life and features Tyler James Williams, Terry Crews, Tequan Richmond, Tichina Arnold, Imani Hakim, and Vincent Martella.
The show’s been around for four seasons and its viewership has been in decline for awhile. It certainly didn’t help that, this season, the CW decided to strand the sitcom on little-watched Friday nights. Added to the fact that Chris doesn’t exactly match the network’s targeted demographic, it was obvious that the show’s days were numbered.
Rather than take a chance on not being able to give the show a proper ending, Rock decided to finish the show on his own terms. The season four finale revolves around Chris dropping out of high school, just as Rock did in real life. If the series had returned for year five, it could have explored his journey to do stand-up but as it is, the season finale still works as a last episode. There’s even a not-so-subtle nod to the famous Sopranos finale at the end.
Williams is currently pursuing a film course at New York University and is satisfied with the final episode. He told TV Guide, “If it ends here, we ended it the right way.” Rock agreed, saying, “It might not be a bad way to go.”
Are you upset or glad that the show won’t be back for season five?
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Everybody hates Chris is a great show, It definately deseres to be carried on as I enjoy watching the episodes a lot. I would be very disappointed if they did not carry on as I think the show has the potential to be very popular and some people that don’t watch it would have the chance to if they broadcasted it on a more wide variety of channels.
Please Please Please have a season 5.
I would be the happiest person in the whole wide world!!!
Damn it!!!
atleast tell us if he passed his GED or not??
Good one!
I love watching re-runs of “Everybody Hates Chris”! Even my 10 year old son loves watching it! I am sorry that the show was cancelled. I continue to watch the old episodes daily on Nick At Nite & on BET. This is one of the few LOL TV series. Chris Rock takes the “not so funny”situations he faced as a child & made us sympathize & LOL at the same time. The entire cast were all compliments to each other. The funniest had to be his mother’s character played by Tichina Arnold. I’d been a fan of hers since her… Read more »
best show in the nation, theirs no excuse it should be taken off the air. Give the people what they want. Let us have our season 5
Wow thats rediculous. Everybody hates Chris in Season 5 would have been the greatest. I wish I’ve could have seen what that would have been like. I don’t see why it was cancelled………………….. It’s a great show. Why are they always taking the good shows off of tv and then replacing them with boring stupid shows that are not funny? like the Nanny,George Lopez, and all this other crap. Every body hates Chris is the best show in the world. Its a good black show for black people to watch as a family and enjoy and finally something we love… Read more »
The Nanny, and George Lopez got cancelled too…
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Anon, You are entitled to your own opinion, but I don’t see you in a position to dictate standards to ANYONE. My comments were not directed at you or any other viewers. I don’t know you, or ANY of the other viewers. Judging from your message, you seem to believe that TV is telling “us” what to believe, and we’re not intelligent enough to learn anything on our own, or how to communicate with other people or learning institutions or other news media in order to be educated. Are you in a position to dictate what is and isn’t suitable… Read more »
JFK is supposedly “great” because the media chose to portray him that way. As with most things in USA, everything is as good or as bad as the media makes it out to be…sometimes the media are forced into it. JFK was a liar (cheated on his wife and contributed to the fake moon landing). But we can debate this until we are blue in the face… …if a show on TV wants to mock people or situations, by all means. As long as it is not hate speach, racist, etc, etc. If you really wanted spend your time fighting… Read more »
seriously, stay quiet with ur psycho babble. there a million things worse that are shown on tv, and becuz of 1 little joke ur gunna talk smack. meeeeehhhhhhhh ppl like u shouldnt even watch tv. paranoiac ppl. everybody hates chris was a great show and taught alot of lessons. stay quiet plz
Everybody hates Chris I realize I was watching a re-run. I would let the show play while I was on the Internet doing a lot of reading. Last night I watched an episode where Chris runs for eighth grade class president. The very last scene in the episode was a parody of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. I don’t believe ALL subjects are suitable for entertainment…, and making a mockery of the murder of a man the whole world grieved in our nation’s recent past isn’t simply embarassing to Americans everywhere, it borders on sacreligious. An apology should be made, in… Read more »
q pena q “tudo mundo odeia o cris” terminou!particularmente me identifico muito com ele em muitas coisas!tudo q é bom dura pouco!