Many were wondering why ABC cancelled Last Man Standing. It had 8 million live viewers an episode with little support and advertising from the network. Brooklyn 99 has a little over 2 million. It can be argued that they could have placed it better and supported it more but as a business decision it makes sense to pick one over the other.
I’m looking forward to a Brooklyn Nine-Nine / Law & Order franchise crossover! Dean Winters played a reoccurring character as a detective in both shows. Why not?
Attributed to every dying British master thespian ever: “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.”
Andre Braugher’s turn on Nine-Nine reminds me of Leslie Nielsen (a serious actor for decades) breaking out as a comedy powerhouse on Airplane and The Naked Gun.
Both played their roles as if they had no idea they were in a comedy; not everybody has the chops to pull that technique off.