NBC has announced that the forthcoming eighth season of police office comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” will be the Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning series’ last.
The show originally aired on Fox for its first five seasons before being cancelled by the network, only to be swiftly picked up by NBC where it has thrived.
The recent seventh season reached 24 million viewers and averaged 9.5 million in total audience per episode. It was also NBC’s No. 2-rated program digitally.
Showrunner Dan Goor says in a statement: “I’m so thankful to NBC and Universal Television for allowing us to give these characters and our fans the ending they deserve. When Mike Schur and I first pitched the pilot episode to Andy, he said, ‘I’m in, but I think the only way to tell this story is over exactly 153 episodes,’ which was crazy because that was exactly the number Mike and I had envisioned.”
The original plan for the eighth season was scrapped and reworked in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. That final run is set to debut sometime later this year.