Remain Calm, But Hulu Might Be Keen To Keep ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Alive

Okay, just relax. Take some deep breaths. The situation is all still very new and fresh and so everyone’s figuring things out as they go. But it would appear that maybe – just maybe – Brooklyn Nine-Nine isn’t completely dead yet.

FOX, in their infinite, pissed-bloke-stumbling-down-a-dark-hallway wisdom, decided to bring the axe down on our beloved cop comedy earlier this morning, sending fans into fits of grief, and our website into almost total meltdown.

But a show as popular as Brooklyn Nine-Nine is, with a fanbase as fervent as they are, death was probably always going to be a temporary ailment.

‘Course none of us expected it to be this temporary, but nonetheless…

Deadline is reporting that, in the wake of the shock cancellation, a bevy of suitors are circling the series with hopes of providing it with a new home so the show can ride off into the sunset on its own terms.

Chief among them is US streaming service Hulu, which serves as the series’ American SVOD home already.

This would make sense for a number of reasons, largely because this sort of thing has happened before to The Mindy Project.

Like Brooklyn Nine-NineThe Mindy Project was cancelled unceremoniously by FOX, only to find its way to Hulu where it’s been running for three additional seasons now. It’s also worth noting that The Mindy Project is produced by Universal TV, which not only is Hulu’s corporate sibling, but is the production house that puts together Brooklyn Nine-Nine as well. The stars are aligning.

Hulu’s not the only potential suitor either, as it turns out.

US comedy cable channel TBS is also reportedly in the hunt; the network also has a leg-up by owning the cable syndication rights to the show. That network’s boss, Kevin Reilly, was the former head of FOX and was in charge when Brooklyn Nine-Nine was originally picked up by the network. He remains, by all accounts, a big fan of the show.

The one place it more than likely will not be going to, sadly for all us Australians, is Netflix. While Australian Netflix carries the show’s older seasons for on-demand viewing, it’s Hulu who owns the first-run streaming rights to the show in the US, which means any deal with Netflix will be incredibly difficult to forge.

That aside, the vibe seems to be fairly optimistic, and all things point towards the fact that we haven’t seen the last of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Not just yet, at least.

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