New Girl is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on September 20, 2011.
Developed by Elizabeth Meriwether under the working title Chicks & Dicks, the show stars Zooey Deschanel as Jessica "Jess" Day, a well-liked and bubbly woman who is trying to get over her surprise breakup with her boyfriend.
With the help of her best friend Cece (Hannah Simone), she finds a new place to stay when she moves in with three single guys: Nick Miller (Jake Johnson), an underachieving bartender; Schmidt (Max Greenfield), who thinks of himself as a modern-day Casanova; and Coach (Damon Wayans, Jr.), who leaves the series in the next episode and is replaced by Winston Bishop (Lamorne Morris), a former professional athlete who achieved modest success abroad and is adjusting to life back in the United States.
On May 14, 2017, the series was renewed for a seventh and final season, which featured eight episodes.
[2] During the course of the series, 146 episodes of New Girl aired over seven seasons.