"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" Renewed for Season 8 at NBC
by Nellie Andreeva
November 14, 2019


"Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s" fairytale resurrection story continues. Ahead of the comedy’s seventh season, NBC has renewed the Golden Globe Award-winning series for an eighth season.

The network’s Co-President Scripted Programming Tracey Pakosta delivered the news to the cast during a table read this morning. The seventh season launches Thursday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. with a one-hour premiere before airing in its regularly scheduled 8:30 p.m. time slot beginning Feb. 13.

https://deadline.com/2019/11/brooklyn-nine-nine-renewed-season-8-nbc-1202786131/

Fantastic news! I've gotten into Brooklyn Nine-Nine over the past year, after enjoying the Will & Grace revival, and this made me wish NBC's Thursday-night viewership were higher right now.

B99's first season at NBC was only for 18 episodes (and its second year will likely be 18 as well), I kinda want B99 to have at least one 22-episode full season on NBC before it ends. (The W&G revival ending in 2020 will make something like this easier).

Brooklyn Nine-Nine promises "No More Mr. Noice Guys" (https://tvline.com/2020/01/07/brooklyn-nine-nine-season-7-cast-photo-noice-new-poster-nbc/)

See the poster for Season 7 of the NBC comedy, returning Feb. 6.

Glad it's getting an 8th season. I really enjoy the show.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is trying to figure out how to do an immigration-themed episode tackling ICE while still being funny (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-29/brooklyn-nine-nine-nbc-dan-goor-season-7)

"It’s tough. We don’t ever want to rush them," co-creator Dan Goor tells the Los Angeles Times. "We really wanted to do an immigration one, and it just — we like doing them when we have a nuanced view, and it felt like an issue for which there is no nuance. So it felt hard to do it in a way that didn’t just seem (like a) PSA. And there’s an argument that maybe that’s worthwhile anyway. So that’s a thing we’ve talked about a lot. I mean, we talked about (racial profiling episode) 'Moo Moo' for two seasons before we figured out how to do it. I think a thing that’s very interesting about police and immigration is that the police are often really anti-ICE, because it prevents immigrants and undocumented people from coming forward and being participants in the community. So it has this real rebound effect, which makes the world a less safe place. We’ve been trying to figure out a story that sort of gets at that element of it, because that’s a thing that people might not think about, or realize. But I feel like our characters are so woke that it’s very hard to do just a standard issue ... It’s like, what’s happening is so horrible and so it’s a little harder to figure out a story. And also, our mandate is always, when we do these, to be really funny still."