In a case of art imitating life, The Neighborhood’s creative team has taken a big moment from Marcel Spears’ (Marty) life and has written it into the May 6 episode. The actor’s wife, actress Sarah Francis Jones, gave birth to the couple’s daughter Nola Renai Spears while at a Beyoncé concert in Los Angeles last September. In the season finale of The Neighborhood, titled “Welcome to the World,” Marty and his girlfriend Courtney, his parents, Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and Tina (Tichina Arnold), and their neighbors, Dave (Max Greenfield) and Gemma (Beth Behrs), attend a Toni Braxton concert. Before she can belt out “Un-Break My Heart,” the tearful ballad many bawled their eyes out to back in the 1990s over failed relationships, Courtney’s water breaks and she goes into labor – just as Jones’s had. Below, Arnold previews the big episode. The family gets a little bigger...
- 5/6/2024
- TV Insider
Art is imitating life in Season 6 of CBS’ The Neighborhood, with Monday’s premiere revealing that Calvin and Tina’s son Marty (played by Marcel Spears) is going to be a father.
The mother, Courtney (A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Skye Townsend), is loosely based on Spears’ real-life girlfriend Sarah Francis Jones, who recently went into labor with their first daughter — Nola Renai Spears — while in attendance at Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour.
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The mother, Courtney (A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Skye Townsend), is loosely based on Spears’ real-life girlfriend Sarah Francis Jones, who recently went into labor with their first daughter — Nola Renai Spears — while in attendance at Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour.
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- 2/13/2024
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Skye Townsend, best known for HBO‘s A Black Lady Sketch Show, will be joining The Neighborhood for its upcoming sixth season, and with her role comes a surprise for Marty Lawrence Butler (Marcel Spears). As reported by Deadline, Townsend is set for a recurring role in Season 6 of the hit CBS comedy series. She will play Courtney, loosely based on Spears’ real-life girlfriend, Sarah Francis Jones, who went into labor at a Beyoncé Renaissance tour concert back in September. Her character is described as “very smart” (having entered MIT at 16 and worked at Jpl before 21) and “very cool, very outgoing” with “a great sense of humor.” She previously worked with Marty at Jpl, and he’s recently hired her as an electrical engineer at The Fuse Box, the Ev solutions startup he and Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) launched in the Season 5 finale. But there is a bigger twist in...
- 12/22/2023
- TV Insider
Exclusive: Skye Townsend (Black Lady Sketch Show) has joined the cast of the CBS comedy The Neighborhood for Season 6 in a recurring role. The show returns with new episodes on February 12.
Townsend’s character Courtney is loosely based on Sarah Francis Jones, girlfriend of The Neighborhood star Marcel Spears, and her real-life experience going into labor at a Beyoncé Renaissance concert.
Courtney is described as very smart—she entered MIT at 16 and worked at Jpl before 21— very cool, very outgoing and with a great sense of humor. She worked with Marty (Spears) at Jpl and he’s recently hired her as an electrical engineer at The Fuse Box. A few months back, they hooked up and now Courtney is pregnant. She’s very upfront about the fact that she likes Marty, but she won’t marry him.
Additionally, Kevin Pollak will also return in Season 6 as Dave Johnson’s (Max Greenfield) father.
Townsend’s character Courtney is loosely based on Sarah Francis Jones, girlfriend of The Neighborhood star Marcel Spears, and her real-life experience going into labor at a Beyoncé Renaissance concert.
Courtney is described as very smart—she entered MIT at 16 and worked at Jpl before 21— very cool, very outgoing and with a great sense of humor. She worked with Marty (Spears) at Jpl and he’s recently hired her as an electrical engineer at The Fuse Box. A few months back, they hooked up and now Courtney is pregnant. She’s very upfront about the fact that she likes Marty, but she won’t marry him.
Additionally, Kevin Pollak will also return in Season 6 as Dave Johnson’s (Max Greenfield) father.
- 12/21/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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