'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' scraps new episodes amid Black Lives Matter protests

Show-runner Dan Goor reportedly had four episodes for season eight but binned them

Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews has revealed that show-runners have scratched out material they had already shot for season eight of the hit series. According to Crews, the move came in light of the Black Lives Matter protests, reported Access Hollywood.

Crews, who essays the role of Sergeant Terry Jeffords in the hit NBC sitcom, shared that the team will be restarting development on the upcoming season in order to bring light to important subjects and discussions that have come to the surface after the BLM protests.

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Talking to Access Hollywood, Crews said, “We’ve had a lot of somber talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we’re going to make something that will be truly ground-breaking this year. We have an opportunity and we plan to use it in the best way possible.”

“Our show-runner Dan Goor, they had four episodes all ready to go and they just threw them in the trash.  We have to start over. Right now we don’t know which direction it’s going to go in,” he added.

Crews had also addressed the same earlier this month, while talking to Seth Meyers during a virtual interview, saying that the cast and crew were aware that they might to make some changes. When asked if the current protests and outrage would affect the season eight’s production, he replied, “Definitely. We all got on a zoom call just the other day because of what is happening in this country. We are witnessing so many abuses of power.”

In his virtual interview with Access Hollywood, Crews also detailed his own experience being a black man in America. “You’ve seen me, in movies or whatever but before all this, I was always a threat. I would be going to the mall or going different places. I’ve had guns pointed at me by police officers in L.A. This was before I was famous. The thing is, they had the wrong guy,” he shared.

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“It’s something that every black man has been through and it’s hard to really try to get other people to understand. I have to say, right here, what is going on right now is Black America’s Me Too movement,” he went on, adding, “With that George Floyd video that came out it literally opened up the world because now you’ve experienced it and you have to go through the same trauma that Black America has been going through.”

Crews himself sees the current Black Lives Matter movement as a chance for the world to come together for permanent change.

“This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together.”

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