Brooklyn Nine-Nine


Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American police procedural comedy television series created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur. The series revolves around Jake Peralta, an immature but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn's fictional 99th Precinct, who often comes into conflict with his new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt. The rest of the cast features Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa Diaz, Terry Crews as Terry Jeffords, Melissa Fumero as Amy Santiago, Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle, Chelsea Peretti as Gina Linetti, Dirk Blocker as Michael Hitchcock, and Joel McKinnon Miller as Norm Scully.
Produced as a single-camera comedy, Fox originally ordered 13 episodes for its first season, eventually expanding it to 22 episodes. Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiered on September 17, 2013. On May 10, 2018, Fox canceled the series after five seasons. The following day, NBC picked up the series for a sixth season; it premiered on NBC on January 10, 2019. On February 27, 2019 NBC renewed the series for a seventh season, which premiered on February 6, 2020. The series was renewed for an eighth season in November 2019, which is set to premiere in late 2020.
The series has been acclaimed by critics for its cast, especially Samberg and Braugher. It has won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Samberg has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, while Braugher has been nominated for three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and has won two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The series has also received particular praise for its portrayal of serious issues whilst retaining a sense of humor. For its portrayal of LGBTQ+ people, the series won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Premise

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 overly serious, newly appointed Captain Raymond Holt. The detectives include Jake Peralta, who has a high rate of successful arrests and solved cases, in spite of his relaxed, carefree and childish attitude. He eventually falls for his nerdy, by-the-book but loveable partner, Amy Santiago. The hard-working but timid Charles Boyle is partnered with the apathetic, aggressive and stern, Rosa Diaz. The pair of older Detectives, Michael Hitchcock and Norm Scully often seem incompetent, stupid and lazy, but have solved more cases over the years simply because they have been on the job much longer.
The detectives report to Sergeant Terry Jeffords, a gentle giant and devoted family man who initially has a phobia of going back to active field police work for fear of being killed in the line of duty and leaving his children fatherless. The precinct also includes sarcastic and dominating civilian administrator Gina Linetti, who dislikes her job, plans her life around social media and focuses on dancing as a life goal.

Cast and characters

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and Dan Goor, who had known each other since they were students at Harvard and had collaborated on Parks and Recreation, liked the idea of setting a comedy in a police station, a setting which they felt was insufficiently used for television comedies since Barney Miller. They pitched the idea to Universal Television, where Schur had a development deal. Although Universal agreed to produce the show, NBC passed on airing it, so the duo sold the series to the Fox Broadcasting Company.
On May 8, 2013, Fox placed a thirteen-episode order for the single-camera ensemble comedy. On October 18, 2013, the series was picked up for a full season of 22 episodes, and was later chosen to air with New Girl in a "special one-hour comedy event" as the Super Bowl XLVIII lead-out programs.
The exterior view of the fictional 99th Precinct building is the actual 78th Precinct building at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Bergen Street. It is one block south of the Barclays Center and one block east of the Bergen Street station on the New York City Subway's.
On May 10, 2018, Fox canceled the series after five seasons. Shortly afterwards, there were announcements that negotiations had begun with Hulu, TBS, NBC and Netflix for the possibility of reviving the show for a sixth season. The next day, TVLine reported Hulu had already passed on the series. 30 hours later, Goor announced that NBC would pick up the series for thirteen 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 NBC. A few days later, it was announced that the series would premiere mid-season in the 2018–19 television season. In September 2018, NBC ordered an additional five episodes for season 6, bringing the order to 18. The sixth season began on NBC on January 10, 2019. On February 27, 2019, NBC renewed the series for a seventh season, which premiered on February 6, 2020 and finished on April 23, 2020.
On November 14, 2019, NBC renewed the series for an eighth season, which is set to premiere in late 2020. In June 2020, Terry Crews said that the planned direction of the season was being altered in response to the killing of George Floyd, with Goor cancelling four "ready to go" episodes as a result. The producers also are considering addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the next season.

Episodes

Reception

gave season one a score of 89% based on 56 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." For Season 2, it received a score of 100% based on 17 reviews. That season's consensus is: "Brooklyn Nine-Nines winning cast, appealing characters and wacky gags make it good comfort food." Metacritic gives the first season of the show a weighted average rating of 70/100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
The Huffington Post posted a list of "9 Reasons You Need to Start Watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine", while Paste magazine celebrated "The 10 Best Moments from Brooklyn Nine-Nines First Season" in 2014.
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 Ray 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 coming-out as bisexual by detective Rosa Diaz in episode "99", the 99th episode of the series, has been described as an important representation of sexual orientation.

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.
The series also airs on TBS and sister channel TruTV since 2018.
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 with the fifth on March 8, 2018, the sixth on March 28, 2019 and the seventh on March 26, 2020.
The series airs on RTÉ Two in Ireland.
In New Zealand, Brooklyn Nine-Nine premiered on TV2 on February 13, 2014.
In South Asia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine airs on Comedy Central India.
In South Africa, the series premiered on SABC3, 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 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine to its listings, with Netflix Australia following suit in March 2015. Since 2016 Netflix Germany/Austria/Switzerland carries season 1 to 5 in both English and German audio.
In South East Asia and Sri Lanka, Brooklyn Nine-Nine airs right after the U.S. on Diva.
Since June 2019, Netflix in Latin America has seasons 1 to 5.

Adaptation

The first adaptation of the series, Escouade 99, will be set in Quebec City. Escouade 99 has a budget of 4 million for the first season of the series, which is approximately the same budget of a single episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The show is slated to air in summer 2020 on Québec streaming platform Club Illico.

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