“On the streets of the city, there are those who commit crimes and there are those who stop them.” Sounds like the serious, sober opening for a Dick Wolf police procedural, right? No, NBC marketers would tell you, but thanks for playing our game. Ripped from the headlines — or, rather, the opening titles of a Law & Ord…

Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) of Brooklyn Nine-Nine is finally living out his dreams of becoming an action hero. In one of the new trailers for the sixth season of the Fox-turned-NBC comedy, Peralta goes full John McClane to save the day…sort of. The new trailer is one of three that will debut today — with one…

It’s the end of the road at Fox for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the network’s cult cop comedy starring Andy Samberg and Andre Braugher, which was the only remaining Fox comedy series from an outside studio, Universal TV. Brooklyn Nine-Nine also was the highest-rated live-action comedy series on Fox this season with a 1.3…

It was quite a sterling moment, indeed, for This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, as he accepted his second consecutive Emmy tonight at the Microsoft Theater. Following his breakout turn as attorney Christopher Darden—Marcia Clark’s right-hand man—in Ryan Murphy’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Brown…

Andy Samberg and the gang in Brooklyn’s 99th Precinct will be back. Fox has picked up a fifth season of its Golden Globe-winning comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The show, which is coming off its best-reviewed season, has been a good utility player and was expected to return. The renewal leaves veteran comedy New Girl…

This is one category for Emmy lead actors that seems to draw a lot of repeat contenders, and that is true again this year for the likes of Don Cheadle, Louis C.K., Matt LeBlanc and William H. Macy, who all are back to try for a first win. That task just got a bit easier because shockingly missing from the list is The B…

The Primetime Emmys showed substantial progress this year in recognizing African-American thesps, who received 18 nominations across all acting categories — easily eclipsing last year’s record high of 11 noms. The best actress, drama category set a first-time record with two African-American nominees: Viola Davis from…

The following are short interviews from AwardsLine’s dialogue section. Kerry Washington is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for ABC’s Scandal. She also was nominated last year.   AWARDSLINE: Scandal has crushed it social media-wise. How important has Twitter been to its success? KERRY WASHINGTO…

Schedule changes and lack of certain Primetime Emmy noms doesn’t keep Brooklyn Nine-Nine down. Co-creators Mike Schur and Dan Goor, EP David Miner, and the cast gathered on the CBS Radford lot today to give the TCA corps a look at their urban work environment and provide some insight into Season 2. With Brooklyn now…

Last year Kerry Washington and Don Cheadle made Emmy history as two African American actors breaking through the lead acting categories at the same time with nominations.  Not only did they both earn nominations again this year, but a total of 11 Black actors and actresses were nominated across all acting categories…

This is probably the biggest vote of confidence ever bestowed on a freshman show that had just posted a 1.4 rating in adults 18-49: Fox has given a Back 9 order to its comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine and picked the Andy Samberg–Andre Braugher starrer to air alongside New Girl after the network’s broadcast of Super Bowl…

Andre Braugher has been set to co-star opposite Andy Samberg in Fox’s Schur/Goor comedy pilot, from Universal TV and 3 Arts. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing the single-camera ensemble project, which revolves around a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City. Braugher will…