{"id":145213,"date":"2026-02-25T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:28:29","slug":"jake-johnson-to-lead-nbc-private-eye-comedy-pilot-from-brooklyn-nine-nine-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145213\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Johnson to Lead NBC Private Eye Comedy Pilot From \u2018Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u2019 Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2159926\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Johnson<\/a> will lead the cast of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>\u2018s private eye workplace comedy pilot from the \u201cBrooklyn Nine-<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0875034\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nine<\/a>\u201d team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmart, cynical and heartbroken, but trying to pretend he\u2019s not, Mickey is a private investigator with a knack for solving cases. Formerly an <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0642010\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAPD<\/a> cop until his life imploded three years ago,\u201d reads a character description provided by NBC.<\/p>\n<p>The series, in contention for the 2026-27 TV season long with two other comedy pilots, comes from \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2467372\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/a>\u201d co-creator <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0329634\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Goor<\/a> and executive producer <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1472469\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke del Tredici<\/a> and is produced by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0046592\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Television<\/a>, a division of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0882993\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Studio Group<\/a>. <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1676223\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akiva Schaffer<\/a> is set to direct the pilot, and hopped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Johnson will lead the cast of NBC\u2018s private eye workplace comedy pilot from the \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2633,2634,98,100,99,1214,2635,2555,2558,158,9,24,12,63,2559,2556,1869],"class_list":["post-145213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}