"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" first aired on Fox in the fall of 2013, instantly cementing itself as another classic from Michael Schur ("Parks and Recreation") and Dan Gurr — so why did it end and will we ever get another season?

The comedy, which was led by "Saturday Night Live" alum Andy Samberg alongside an accomplished cast including Andre Braugher, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatrice, Joe Lo Truglio, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller, focused on the 99 area. in Brooklyn and their constant mishaps with the police—and that description alone might give you a clue as to why the series ended if, say, you've watched or read any news since 2020 or so. The show concluded in the fall of 2021 with its eighth and final season after facing delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but even up to eight seasons it hasn't been easy for this little show that could; was rather famously canceled by Fox, its original parent channel, after its fifth season in 2018, and was eventually rescued by NBC after a star-studded campaign emerged to keep it alive. So why did it only last two short seasons on NBC before ending its run?

There are a whole bunch of reasons, and they add up to one obvious fact: We probably will no get Brooklyn Nine-Nine season nine anytime soon or maybe ever. Here's why.

There are several reasons why Brooklyn Nine-Nine didn't return for a ninth season, and most of them are pretty standard (the show's narrative feels finished, the cast has moved on to other projects, and so on). There seem to be two main reasons that are likely to prevent a future season of the workplace comedy: the rethinking of police work in America that has been taking place since the summer of 2020 and the fact that one of the stars of the series, Andre Bracher, died after the series ended. .

To that first point, 2021 was the right time for Brooklyn Nine-Nine to end its run. After a delay due to the pandemic, the show returned only to face a new social issue after the world rose to protest the reckless police violence in 2020, sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. As star Terry Crews revealed on Access Hollywoodwriters of the show actually threw out several scripts before starting their eighth season. "We've had a lot of dark conversations about it and deep conversations and hopefully through this we'll do something that's going to be really groundbreaking this year," Cruz said at the time. "We have an opportunity and we plan to use it in the best possible way." Our showrunner Dan Gurr, they had four episodes all ready to go and they just threw them in the trash. We have to start from the beginning. I don't know which direction it will go."

Obviously, this was a tricky tightrope walk for the show, but the second reason that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is unlikely to return is much more clear. and tragic. Braugher died in December 2023 due to complications from lung cancer, and that's quite literally impossible to imagine the show without its dead Captain Raymond Holt.

In the wake of Andre Braugher's deeply tragic death, the stars of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" as a whole haven't addressed the possibility of returning to the fictional area... except for one. In early December 2024, Melissa Fumero, who played Type A detective turned Sergeant Amy Santiago, spoke to ScreenRant while promoting the second season of Peacock's original "Based on a True Story," and her take on the situation was pretty unsurprising.

"Oh my gosh," Fumero said when asked about any kind of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" reboot. "We've definitely all toyed with the idea, and we definitely all miss him a lot and miss spending our days together," she continued. "I don't think we could ever do it, though, without Andre, so I don't know that it would happen, but, yeah. I hope to work in other things with everyone. Stephanie and I have a podcast together now, and I think we'll always be looking for ways to work together again."

I smoke does host a podcast with Stephanie Beatriz - who played Amy's colleague, friend and colleague Rosa Diaz, a fearsome and very private cop who begrudgingly lets her co-workers past the walls she built - called More Better with Stephanie and Melissa and the cast reunites with some regularity. However, she is right; Bracher's absence would be too glaring.

I can't possibly stress this enough: the probability of a ninth season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is basically zerobut we can pretend for a moment and imagine Dan Gurr, Michael Schur and the show's cast announcing that it's happening. What could happen in the next season? Let's take a look at the series finale, The Last Day, which aired in September 2021.

As Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) prepares for his wife Amy and mentor Captain Holt to leave the precinct (to lead a reform program), he stages one last "heist," a stomping spree throughout the series (usually occurring on Halloween , serving as a competition for the entire district to fight over who won). However, the robbery has a twist; it's all meant to convince Amy that Jake should also Leave the Nine-Nine to be a stay-at-home dad to their young son Mack, and while Amy is surprised by Jake's decision, she's happy to support him for the sake of their family. With only With this story in mind, we could imagine that the ninth season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" will focus on Amy leading the police reform program (although, againthis would require the show to kill off Holt, which would be an incredibly painful thing to do after Braher's death in real life) and see Jake raise Mack. Aside from the Peralta-Santiago family, we could follow Rosa, who leaves the area in the final season to become a private detective (that possibility actually feels the most interesting and promising), or Terry Jeffords (Terry Crews) who takes over the 99 in Holt is instead. Once again, for the cheap seats in the back: this is it a lot probably not going to happen.

Keeping in mind that a Brooklyn Nine-Nine reboot is impossible without Andre Bracher, we could fantasize about the show's original cast returning to play these characters again... but the fact is, a bunch of them probably are too busy to even get back to the project! Andy Samberg, for starters, has been working steadily as an actor, writer and producer since the series ended; took his first major dramatic role in the 2023 drama Lee opposite Kate Winslet, and also finds time to stop by Saturday Night Live to play the ever-hopeful First Mr. Doug Emhoff and drop some new digital shorts with courtesy. of his group The Lonely Island in process. Melissa Fumero has stayed busy working on shows like Digman! (which is produced by Samberg), Velma, Night Court, and Based on a True Story, and Stephanie Beatrice has appeared in huge movies like In the Heights ” and “Encanto” as well as in Michael Schur's 2024 series. "Inside Man."

I could go on and on what the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is up to today.but the point is that not only is this talented group of people very busy, but they are missing one of their beloved colleagues. If you want to relive the glory days of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," it's now available to stream on both Netflix and Peacock.