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Watch a Trailer for Andy Samberg's New Fox Show 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'

by | May 13th, 2013

Sure, it's not as big of a deal as today's new Arrested Development trailer, but this is still pretty exciting. This is the trailer for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a workplace comedy set at an NYC police precinct that stars Andy Samberg and was created by Mike Schur and Dan Goor (Parks and Rec). It's far and away the most promising new comedy of the season, with a Fred Armisen cameo in the pilot to boot.

Hit the jump for the trailer to Seth MacFarlane's new Fox show, Dads, starring Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi, and Martin Mull, and other new Fox shows Enlisted and Us & Them:

TV

'Parks and Rec' Showrunner Mike Schur Says a Season 6 Is Likely

by | May 3rd, 2013

While Parks and Recreation is pretty much NBC's only comedy that's guaranteed to come back this fall, the network has yet to officially announce its renewal. Part of the reason the show's considered to have a good shot at renewal is that it's the highest-rated NBC comedy this year besides The Office, which is ending its run. Parks and Rec co-creator/showrunner Mike Schur is confident about the series' chances too. He tells EW, "I've been cautiously optimistic for five straight years, that's not going to change. I fully believe that we will be back next year, but until they actually make that phone call, I never like to say [...]

pilot season

Andy Samberg's Cop Show Keeps Sounding Better and Better – Joe Lo Truglio Joins the Cast

by | February 25th, 2013

Joe Lo Truglio, of The State, Reno 911!, and Superbad fame, has been added to the cast of Andy Samberg's new Fox pilot, cementing its status as the most anticipated comedy pilot of 2013. Lo Truglio is the final series regular to join the untitled New York cop show, created by Parks and Recreation co-creator/showrunner Mike Schur and longtime Parks writer Dan Goor. He'll be playing Charles, a divorced veteran detective who looks up to top cop Jake (Samberg). The rest of the impressive cast is made up of Terry Crews (Everybody Hates Chris), Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age), stand-up Chelsea Peretti, and relative newcomers [...]

Fandom

April Ludgate from 'Parks and Rec' Pens an Ode to Neutral Milk Hotel

by | February 11th, 2013

"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the best album ever made and all other albums stink, and if you don’t agree, I’ll fight you."

- April Ludgate, of Parks and Recreation fame, writing for Vulture about her appreciation for Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on the album's 15th anniversary (Parks an Rec co-creator Mike Schur may have helped).

MOSE!

Mose to Live (and Die?) on 'The Farm'

by | August 31st, 2012

MOSE!!! TV's greatest character ever to have a name that rhymes with "hose" is officially going to be on The Farm. While The Farm was filling out its so far great cast, everyone was wondering: "What about Mose?" Mike Schur (Parks & Recreation showrunner/Mose) explained that Mose is coming back because Paul Lieberstein loves how bad of an actor he is:

"Paul Lieberstein is mostly the driving force behind keeping Mose alive because he loves torturing me. There was one time where I had a whole real scene with Jim and Pam — it was the night they stayed at the Schrute B&B — and [...]

pilot season

Fox Announces 5 Fall Comedies, Including Andy Samberg and Mike Schur's Cop Show 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'

by | May 9th, 2013

Fox became the first of the big four networks to announce its fall lineup last night, and they picked up five new comedies, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine from Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur and Andy Samberg. Other comedies ordered by the network are Seth MacFarlane's live-action series Dads (which was given an early six-episode pickup in January), military sitcom Enlisted, Chris Meloni's Surviving Jack, and Us & Them, a US adaptation of the popular UK series Gavin & Stacey. All shows have received orders for 13 episodes, with Dads' six episodes also upped to 13.

Notable pilots that weren't picked up include law firm sitcom To My Assistant, which featured Catherine [...]

Books n Stuff

Last Night's 'Parks and Rec' Was Full of References to 'Infinite Jest'

by | April 5th, 2013

Parks and Recreation co-creator / showrunner Mike Schur is a noted fan of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, and prior to last night's new episode, he tweeted that it would contain several references to the novel. As Schur discussed with The New York Times a couple years ago, he's completely obsessed with the novel, so much that he wrote his undergraduate thesis on Infinite Jest at Harvard and met Wallace after inviting him to campus to receive an award from The Harvard Lampoon. Schur even owns the film rights to the book, although he doesn't have plans to turn it into a movie anytime soon. He [...]

finale

Tonight's 'Parks and Rec' Was Written as a Potential Finale Because NBC Originally Ordered a Shorter Season

by | February 21st, 2013

Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall has a long interview with Parks and Recreation co-creator/showrunner Mike Schur today, in which he reveals they made the first of tonight's two new episodes a possible series finale because NBC had only ordered a 13-episode season originally. The network ordered nine more episodes for a full 22 shortly after the episode was filmed, but the writers made it a special episode with a sense of closure just in case. Here's Schur explaining the situation:

"The way we operate every year is we that don't know what our future is. So we try to tell the juiciest, most interesting stories we can tell. And at the end [...]

pilot season

Two Actresses Join Andy Samberg and Mike Schur's Cop Show Pilot

by | February 7th, 2013

Andy Samberg and Parks and Rec co-creator Mike Schur are making a pilot for an untitled Fox comedy about a police precinct on the edge of New York City, and the show just added two new cast members this week. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actresses Stephanie Beatriz (pictured, left) and Melissa Fumero (right) have each signed on to be regulars on the potential series, joining a cast that also includes Samberg and Terry Crews. Beatriz, best known for a recent guest spot as Sofia Vergara's sister on Modern Family, will play Meghan, a tough and frightening police officer who scares both criminals and the other cops. Fumero, [...]

Let's Make a Deal

Fox Wins Mike Schur Cop Pilot

by | August 22nd, 2012

On Friday, we told you that all the networks were fighting over a cop sitcom created by Parks & Rec top dawgs Mike Schur and Dan Goor. Well, Fox won! Fox is sure in the game of winning the type of comedies that previously would've went to NBC. Another interesting wrinkle is hours before making this deal with Fox, Mike Schur signed an overall deal with Universal. So, even though NBC might've lost out on the show, ultimately the company is still going to make money on it. Add in the fact that NBC is moving away from hipper comedies in favor of broad farces and sad [...]

pilot season

9 Comedy Pilots We Hope Get Picked Up This Year

by | May 7th, 2013

Next week, the TV networks are set to unveil their new fall lineups, officially announcing which shows are coming back and which new shows will get to see the light of day. Networks always develop a ton of pilots, only choosing a few to go to series, and Deadline reports that execs at all the networks are "very happy" with their comedy pilots this time around.  With shows from Rebel Wilson, Andy Samberg, and John Mulaney in the mix, there are a lot of high-profile comedy pilots this season, and we whittled them down to nine shows that we hope make it through the pilot season gauntlet. And just [...]

New Shows

Andy Samberg's Fox Cop Show Has a Name: 'Brooklyn 99'

by | April 2nd, 2013

One of the most eagerly-awaited pilots this season for comedy fans has been an untitled Fox cop show that stars Andy Samberg and is co-created by Parks and Rec's Mike Schur. Now, it looks like the untitled series has a title: Brooklyn 99. USA Today was first to print the show's title last month. Co-created by Schur and Parks writer Dan Goor, Brooklyn 99 stars Samberg as the lead detective Jake Peralta, who watches over a diverse group of cops at a precinct at the edge of New York City. Terry Crews, Andre Braugher, Chelsea Peretti, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, and Joe Lo Truglio make up the rest [...]

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Chelsea Peretti and Andre Braugher Join Andy Samberg's Cop Show

by | February 12th, 2013

Stand-up/Parks and Rec writer Chelsea Peretti and Men of a Certain Age's Andre Braugher have just been cast in a new Fox pilot starring Andy Samberg, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The untitled show was written by Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur and writer Dan Goor, and it follows a diverse group of police officers in a precinct on the edge of New York City. Peretti will play Gina the civilian office manager at the station, and Braugher's character is Captain Holt, who just got his own command after 30 years on the force. Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, and Stephanie Beatriz are also set to star [...]

Interviews

Showrunner Mike Schur Talks the Future of 'Parks and Rec'

by | October 26th, 2012

Last night's Halloween episode of Parks and Recreation had a big surprise in store for a couple of its major characters, and showrunner/co-creator Mike Schur held a conference call today to talk to reporters about the direction of the show in the wake of Leslie and Ben's engagement. Schur said the original plan for the show was to have Leslie Knope date a string of very different men (Paul Schneider, Justin Theroux, and Louis C.K.) and learn more about who she is with each one, but when the writers paired her up with Adam Scott's Ben Wyatt, they decided they couldn't split them up.

"We realized their two characters [...]

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