NBC confirms it will air the final season this summer after the Tokyo Olympics Published May 14, 2021 While the wait for Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 8 feels eternal, the final season of the much-loved NBC comedy has now been fitted with a release date — or at least, a very vague and tentative one. Today NBC announced that Michael Schur's Andy Samberg-led comedy will return for its eighth and final season after the close of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, giving the show what the network calls the "coveted" post-Games slot. While the Olympics are still facing a very uncertain future in the largely unvaccinated Japan, they are currently still scheduled to run in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8. That means,