Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Thursdays, E4, 9pm / Mondays, RTE 2, 9pm.
FROM the same people who brought us Parks and Recreation and the US version of
is basically another workplace comedy with added guns, badges and occasional crime-fighting interludes.
Starring Saturday Night Live comedian Andy Samberg as goofy yet talented detective Jake Peralta, this half-hour sit-com will hold a special appeal for fans of classic 'precinct-based' US cop shows like
Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey and NYPD Blue.
It benefits from sharp comedy writing and a talented cast of performers including Andre Braugher as the openlygay and by-the-book Captain Holt, Terry Crews (gun-shy obesity survivor Sargeant Jeffers and Joe Lo Truglio as Detective Boyle, a tongue-tied type who lucklessly lusts after Stephanie Beatriz's hard-nosed Latina 'tec Rosa Diaz.
A cut above bafflingly popular American offerings like 2 Broke Girls, Anger Management and Two and A Half Men, Brooklyn Nine-Nine investigating.
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Catch up online at Channel4.com/4od.