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    After getting canceled by Fox, 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' looks to silver linings and second chances on NBC

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Jan 07, 2019 7 minutes

    In a fitting setup even he couldn't have written, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" co-creator Dan Goor was in the bathroom when he got the call that Fox had canceled the comedy after five seasons.

    There had been rumblings about the fate of the show, but as Goor will tell you, there's always talk like that these days unless a show is a mega hit. But this time, Goor's agent was cautioning that cancellation was a real probability: "It was the first time anyone had seriously ever used that word."

    So when the call came in on Thursday, May 10 - a day and date Goor won't soon forget - any usual phone protocols were out the window: "I was like, 'You know what? I'm going to take this call. I'm not going to give them the courtesy of not being in the bathroom," Goor says wryly with a bit of hindsight.

    The oddball workplace comedy about a ragtag group of NYPD officers became another TV casualty unable to fend off growing trends in TV's modern era. It never pulled in stellar enough ratings - its fifth season averaged around

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