NBC has set Monday, February 8 for the premiere of Sunset P.I., its new comedy series starring Keith David, Jake Johnson, and Jane Levy alongside newly released first-look photos featuring Langston Kerman and the rest of the cast.
Created by Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici, Sunset P.I. is a 10-episode single-camera workplace comedy following Mickey Wilder, played by Johnson, and the other private investigators at his Hollywood detective agency. The ensemble also includes Kerman and Mary Shalaby. Akiva Schaffer, of The Lonely Island, directed and executive produced the pilot. Universal Television produces.
The series will air at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT, following St. Denis Medical‘s third season, and takes over the time slot currently held by The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins, which wraps its second season in mid-January. Episodes stream on Peacock the day after broadcast.
Speaking to TVLine in October, Goor addressed the show’s connection to his earlier hit, saying Sunset P.I. shares some DNA with Brooklyn Nine-Nine but that the dynamic between Johnson’s Mickey and Levy’s Faye will read differently than Jake and Amy’s did, describing it as “a more mature relationship right off the bat,” while still carrying a will-they-won’t-they undercurrent. Goor confirmed the two shows exist in separate universes, though he expressed openness to crossover guest appearances from both Nine-Nine and Johnson’s New Girl down the line.
Sunset P.I. was developed during NBC’s most recent pilot season and picked up to series in May, one of four new series the network ordered for the 2026-2027 season, alongside cop drama Line of Fire, The Rockford Files reboot starring David Boreanaz, and multi-camera comedy Newlyweds.
With a creative team this closely tied to one of the genre’s most acclaimed comedies now building something deliberately different in tone, Sunset P.I. arrives carrying real expectations without simply repeating what already worked before.
