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Refresh for updates: NBC announced Thursday that Brooklyn Nine-Nine will end with its upcoming eight season. The Andy Samberg-led police comedy will conclude during the 2021-22 broadcast season, finally shutting the doors at the 99th precinct. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic caused delays on the production of season…

UPDATED with trailer: NBC has a date with a killer next month — three dates, actually. The network said today that its three-part true-crime docuseries The Widower, from the producers of Dateline NBC, will premiere at 10 p.m. Thursday, February 18. Watch the first trailer above. The hourlong debut episode will be…

The doors at the 99th precinct are set to close, again, with Brooklyn Nine-Nine coming to an end with its upcoming eighth season. NBC has revealed that the Andy Samberg-fronted police comedy will be ending during the 2021-22 broadcast season, bringing its fairytale resurrection to a close. The show, produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Willig (Concussion) is set for a key recurring role in Young Rock, Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming NBC comedy series inspired by his life. The project comes from Johnson and Fresh Off the Boat creator/executive producer Nahnatchka Khan. Production is underway in Australia. Willig will play legendary…

For the first time ever, NBC will air a live morning broadcast of an Olympic opening ceremony. The four-hour Tokyo Opening Ceremony on July 23 will kick off a full day of Olympic programming on NBC.  It will be followed by a special edition of Today with reaction and athlete interviews, and then NBC's first-ever…

The doors of Cloud 9 will close for the final time next month. NBC has set at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 25, for the one-hour series finale of its hit comedy Superstore. The network announced in December that the series would end with its current sixth season and a total of 113 episodes. The cancellation followed the exit…

The Wheel, the British game show hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre, is heading to the U.S. NBC has ordered a 10-part series based on the BBC format, the latest UK entertainment format adapted by the U.S. network following its reboot of Weakest Link with Jane Lynch. The series, which launched in the UK last year and…

Law & Order: Organized Crime is the latest drama to be hit by the pandemic. Deadline understands that production has paused on the NBC series due to a positive Covid test in Zone A, which traditionally includes on-screen talent. The network has asked those in close contact to self-isolate as required by state and…

EXCLUSIVE: In her broadcast debut, two-time Oscar winner Renée Zellweger is set to headline and executive produce limited series The Thing About Pam, which has been greenlighted by NBC with a six-episode straight-to-series order. Based on a true-crime phenomenon, the real-life, stranger-than-fiction story behind the…

For only the second time since NBC started branding Thursday night in the early 1980s — first as “The Best Night of Television on Television” and then “Must See TV” — the lineup once dubbed “Comedy Night Done Right” will feature no comedy series. The network today unveiled scheduling changes for late spring, which…

Elliot Stabler is back. NBC has set a premiere date for its high-profile new Dick Wolf series Law & Order: Organized Crime, which features the return of Christopher Meloni as the NYPD detective he played for years in Law & Order: SVU. And he will be reunited with Olivia Benson as the series debuts April 1 as part of a…

Jane Levy received her first Golden Globe Nomination for her performance on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, marking the sole nomination for NBC and other major networks combined. Upon receiving the news on Wednesday morning, Levy told Deadline that the nomination validates the show’s impact on viewers. “We have really…