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'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' saved by NBC thanks to social media outcry
Following the cancellation of hit TV comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the show has been picked up by NBC – and fans on social media could not be happier.
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After the Fox cancellation of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', social media outcry by some of Hollywood’s biggest names prompted NBC executives to pick up the show. (Brooklyn Nine-Nine Fox Facebook/File)
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ollowing social media outcry over the Fox cancellation of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the hit sitcom was picked up by NBC, as announced by the show’s creator, Dan Goor, on Twitter on Friday night.
Hey everyone, just wanted to say no big deal but....
NBC JUST PICKED #BROOKLYN99 UP FOR SEASON 6!!!
Thanks in no small part to you, the best fans in the history of the world!
Nine-nine!!!!!!!!!
— Dan Goor (@djgoor) May 12, 2018Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Mike Schur said in a tweet that the show was being picked up by NBC "because the fans of the show went berzerk".
This happened because the fans of the show went berzerk. We can't thank you -- or @NBC -- enough. #Brooklyn99
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) May 12, 2018
The show hailed support from some of Hollywood’s biggest names after its cancellation. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro was among the first to tweet support for the show, according to BBC.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine has given us fully human characters, beautiful, powerful, flawed, vulnerable, majestic... In whichever form, B99 must return. It will. And I will be there to watch. And, it is my hope that I hope that, this time, a lot more people do too.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) May 11, 2018
Broadway heavyweight Lin Manuel Miranda jumped on the #RenewB99 bandwagon with passion.
RENEW BROOKLYN NINE NINE
I ONLY WATCH LIKE 4 THINGS
THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS#RenewB99
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 10, 2018
Nineties boyband The Backstreet Boys also tweeted their support, attaching a picture of a famous scene from the show in which Andy Samberg’s character, Jake Peralta, gets a criminal suspect lineup to sing the band’s hit song “I Want It That Way”
Thanks for the memories, #Brooklyn99 😢 pic.twitter.com/BnmwCdb9RS
— backstreetboys (@backstreetboys) May 10, 2018
In addition to protesting the cancellation, fans of the show suggested that streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu pick up the show for its sixth season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt stated in a release that he was thrilled to secure the show on his network. "Ever since we sold this show to Fox I’ve regretted letting it get away, and it’s high time it came back to its rightful home," he said.
"Mike Schur, Dan Goor and Andy Samberg grew up on NBC and we’re all thrilled that one of the smartest, funniest and best-cast comedies in a long time will take its place in our comedy lineup. I speak for everyone at NBC, here’s to the Nine-Nine!” (asw)
