Mr. Robinson is an American television sitcom created by Owen Ellickson, and developed by Robb Cullen and Mark Cullen, which aired on NBC from August 5 to August 19, 2015.
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Premise
The series stars Craig Robinson as a high school music teacher and part-time musician.
Cast and characters
Main
Craig Robinson as Craig Robinson
Ben Koldyke as Jimmy Hooper
Brandon T. Jackson as Ben Robinson
Spencer Grammer as Ashleigh Fellows
Amandla Stenberg as Halle Foster
Peri Gilpin as Principal Eileen Taylor
Recurring
Meagan Good as Victoria Wavers
Tim Bagley as Supervisor Dalton
Asif Ali as Samir Panj
Dante Brown as Deandre Hall
Ethan Josh Lee as Quan Phook
Franchesca Maia as Maria
Production
Development
The original pilot was created by Owen Ellickson and was in development at NBC for the 2013–14 United States network television season. It also starred Robinson, and included a cast of Jean Smart, Larenz Tate, Amandla Stenberg and Amanda Lund. Greg Daniels served as executive producer.
NBC placed a six-episode order for the series on January 6, 2014, with Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen as showrunners, replacing Owen Ellickson, and several characters recast. The series debuted in August 2015.
Cancellation
On September 14, 2015, the series was cancelled after one season and six episodes.
Reception
Mr. Robinson has received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the series has a rating of 19%, based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Mr. Robinson is held back by too many sitcom tropes, bad plots, and stock characters, wasting its appealing star." On Metacritic, the series has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Dominic Patten of Deadline said that the show is not funny. Bruce R. Miller of the Sioux City Journal said, "Mr. Robinson just does not work". Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly gave the show a grade of C−.