Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Set in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows a team of detectives headed by the serious and intellectual Captain Raymond Holt, who is assigned as their new commanding officer in the pilot episode. The station's exterior is based on Brooklyn's 78th Precinct. ==Cast and characters==

• Andy Samberg as Jake Peralta: Jake is a skilled detective, but often acts immaturely. He dates and later marries Amy in season 5 and they have a son in season 7. He often refers to his hard upbringing due to his father leaving him as a child. In the final episode he leaves his job to look after his son, Mac, giving him the upbringing his father denied him. • Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz: Rosa is an intimidating detective; most of the 99th precinct is afraid of her. She takes pride in being very private and her colleagues know almost nothing about her, including what she likes or where she lives. At the police academy, she was classmates with Jake and the two became close friends. In season 2 she dates Holt's nephew Marcus (portrayed by Nick Cannon). In seasons 3 and 4, she dates fellow detective Adrian Pimento (portrayed by Jason Mantzoukas) and she comes out as bisexual later in season 5. In the final season she has left her job, in the wake of Black Lives Matter, becoming a private detective and helping those targeted by crooked cops. • Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords: Terry is a family man with a wife, Sharon, twin daughters, Cagney and Lacey, and a third daughter, named Ava, born on Thanksgiving in season 3. He works out frequently and is very strong, though he used to be extremely overweight. For the first five seasons, he is a sergeant. In season 6, he passes an exam to become a lieutenant. In the series finale, he becomes the captain of the Nine-Nine. • Melissa Fumero as Amy Santiago: Amy is a neurotic, competitive, nerdy detective who desperately seeks Captain Holt's approval. She becomes a sergeant in season 5. Although very different people, she and Jake begin to date in season 3, get married in season 5, and have a son named Mac, after the fictional John McClane, at the end of season 7. In the final episode she becomes a chief and heads a new police reform program with Holt. • Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle: Charles is Jake's best friend, and the two often work together on cases. Early in season 1, he has an intense crush on Rosa and often tries to ask her out but fails. After a brief engagement to food author Vivian Ludley, he later begins a relationship with an artist named Genevieve and the two adopt a son named Nikolaj from Latvia at the start of season 4. • Chelsea Peretti as Gina Linetti (main seasons 1–6; special guest season 8): Gina is Captain Holt's assistant and Jake's childhood friend. She is largely uninterested in the people around her, instead focusing almost entirely on her phone and social media. She has a short-lived sexual relationship with Charles, which she is incredibly ashamed of, though she later goes public with the relationship, without consulting Charles. In season 5, she has a child named Enigma/"Iggy" with Charles's cousin Milton Boyle. Gina departs temporarily at the start of season 5 for maternity leave to care for Iggy (this was written to coincide with Peretti's real-life pregnancy), and for good in season 6 to build an online brand, but she returns in the series finale. • Andre Braugher as Raymond Holt: Captain Holt is the captain of the 99th precinct and takes pride in being the NYPD's first gay black police captain. He is known for his stoic and deadpan demeanor and he frequently criticizes Jake's immature behavior, though he eventually develops a strong, familial relationship with all his detectives, who in turn hold him in high esteem. Both Amy and Jake view him as a father figure. He is married to Kevin Cozner (portrayed by Marc Evan Jackson), a professor of classics at Columbia University, and has a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Cheddar. He is rivals with Deputy Chief (Commissioner) Madeline Wuntch. In the final episode he is promoted to Deputy Commissioner to run a police reform program with Amy in the wake of Black Lives Matter and the behavior of the police over lockdown. • Dirk Blocker as Michael Hitchcock and Joel McKinnon Miller as Norm Scully (recurring season 1, starring seasons 2–5, main season 6–8): Hitchcock and Scully are two aging, accident-prone, lazy, and incompetent detectives whose careers peaked in the 1980s. They are best friends and state that their ideas are each other's. Hitchcock is vulgar and crass, especially towards women, has numerous ex-wives, and lives in a van; Scully is much more kindhearted and can sing opera well despite suffering from numerous medical maladies. ==Production==

Development Writers and producers Michael Schur and Dan Goor, who had known each other since they were students at Harvard University, and had collaborated on the sitcom Parks and Recreation, conceived the idea to set a comedy in a police station, a setting they felt had been insufficiently used in television comedies since Barney Miller. They pitched the idea to production company Universal Television, where Schur had a development deal. Although Universal signed on to produce the series, its parent company's network, NBC, passed on airing it, so the duo sold it to Fox. Fox placed a 14-episode order for the single-camera ensemble comedy in May 2013. The series was picked up for a full season of 22 episodes in October 2013, and was later chosen to air with the show New Girl in a "special one-hour comedy event" as the Super Bowl XLVIII lead-out programs. It was filmed at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, Los Angeles. The exterior view of the fictional 99th Precinct building was the actual 78th Precinct building in Brooklyn. If the 99th Precinct were real, it would be considered a Brooklyn police precinct (where numbers can theoretically range from 60 to 99), but no precinct has yet been assigned number "99". Cancellation and renewals building in Brooklyn: An exterior image is used as an establishing shot throughout the show.Fox canceled the series after five seasons in May 2018. Negotiations to revive the series for a sixth season began shortly afterwards with TBS and NBC, as well as streaming services Hulu and Netflix. After fans launched a social-media campaign calling for a renewal, and only thirty hours following the show's cancellation by Fox, Goor announced that NBC had picked up the series for a sixth season comprising 13 episodes. In a statement, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt expressed regret for originally passing on the series to Fox and was "thrilled" at its addition to the network. NBC subsequently announced that the series would premiere midseason in the 2018–19 television season. In September, the network ordered an additional five episodes for season six, bringing the order to 18. The sixth season premiered on NBC on January 10, 2019. Peretti, who portrays civilian administrator Gina Linetti, departed as a series regular during the season, but returned for a guest appearance. In February 2019, NBC renewed the series for a seventh season, followed by an eighth season renewal in November prior to the airing of the seventh. The seventh season premiered on February 6, 2020, and concluded on April 23. In February 2021, NBC announced that the eighth season of 10 episodes would be the last, and further announced that the eighth-season premiere would be delayed until August 12, 2021. Two episodes aired back-to-back each week for five weeks and the series concluded on September 16, 2021. Writing In June 2020, Crews said that the planned direction of the eighth season was being altered in response to the murder of George Floyd, with Goor cancelling four "ready to go" episodes as a result. Samberg also stated that the series would be "striking a balance" between addressing police brutality and maintaining its comedic style. It also incorporated the COVID-19 pandemic during the season. Goor called ending the series "a difficult decision, but ultimately, we felt it was the best way to honor the characters, the story, and our viewers". ==Episodes==

Critical response Rotten Tomatoes gave season one a score of 89% based on 57 reviews. The consensus is: "Led by the surprisingly effective pairing of Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a charming, intelligently written take on the cop show format." Writing for Vanity Fair, Grace Robertson regarded the series as "a well-made exemplar of [...] the workplace sitcom" that confers "straightforward pleasures". Slates Aisha Harris called the series "a well-crafted fantasy, with hardly any discernible connection to current cultural attitudes about law enforcement" but complimented its "talented" ensemble cast. It was ranked No. 24 in Rolling Stones 50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s list, in which its curator, Alan Sepinwall, praised "the comedic yin and yang" of Samberg and Braugher's characters. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has received praise for its forthright portrayal of LGBTQ people and the serious issues that affect them while retaining its sense of humor. Portraying Captain Raymond Holt, a lead character, as an openly gay, no-nonsense black man in a same-sex interracial marriage is unprecedented in cinema and television. The storyline about detective Rosa Diaz coming out as bisexual in episodes "99" and "Game Night", the 99th & 100th episodes of the series, has been cited as an important moment in the representation of sexual orientation. The show has also been the subject of academic analysis. Ratings Awards and nominations ==Broadcast==

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is broadcast in Canada on Citytv. After the second episode of the second season, it was replaced on Sunday nights by Rogers Hometown Hockey for the duration of the 2014–15 NHL regular season; after the NHL season concluded City resumed airing Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and has continued to broadcast the show simultaneously with the American broadcast since the third season (Hometown Hockey was moved to Sportsnet in 2015). The series also aired on TBS and sister channel TruTV from 2018 to 2021. Brooklyn Nine-Nine aired on Comedy Central from 2022 until 2023. In the United Kingdom, the show premiered on E4 in January 2014. The second season debuted on January 15, 2015, the third began on January 7, 2016, and the fourth on January 5, 2017. The fifth season aired on March 8, 2018, the sixth on March 28, 2019, and the seventh on March 26, 2020. The series airs on RTÉ2 in Ireland. In New Zealand, Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiered on TV2 on February 13, 2014. In India, Brooklyn Nine-Nine airs on Comedy Central India. In South Africa, the series premiered on SABC 3, in the 19:00 timeslot, airing Mondays to Fridays, where repeats aired on Sunday In Australia, it premiered on SBS on July 28, 2014, and airs repeats on Universal Channel from January 7, 2015. It moved to SBS 2 in 2015 commencing with the second season, which premiered on March 3, 2015. It has now moved to SBS Viceland, currently airing on Fridays at 8:30pm. In December 2014, Netflix UK added the first season to its listings, with Netflix Australia following suit in March 2015. Since 2016, Netflix UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Latin America, and Switzerland have carried seasons 1 to 6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The seventh season was added to Netflix UK on March 26, 2021. In South East Asia and Sri Lanka, Brooklyn Nine-Nine airs right after the U.S. on Diva. In Brazil, the series was acquired by SBT, and is being shown on Sundays in the midnight on SBT after the Programa Silvio Santos. Especially because it contains the actor Terry Crews, who starred in sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, shown successfully on weekends by the competition Record TV. French Canadian adaptation A French Canadian adaptation of the series, titled (translates to 'Squad Ninety-Nine'), debuted on the Québec streaming platform Club Illico in 2020. Set in Quebec City, had a budget of $4 million Canadian for the first season of the series, which is approximately the same budget as a single episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Following the release of the first trailer, Fumero criticized the casting, specifically that of white actresses in the roles based on Amy Santiago and Rosa Diaz. cast a second season in 2021. ==Home media==