Parks and Recreation

[Guest ShoePiss]

Good news, they've managed to maintain a brilliant level of comedy throughout the years, the current one is still really enjoyable.

[Yozzer]

Just finished off season 5, brilliant stuff from beginning to end.

 

All I can say is, "Macklin, you son of a bitch."

[Pony Princess]

Only seen a couple of eps but Ron at the vegan store was great. Gonna download em all tonight.

[Yozzer]

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The show needs more Jean Ralphio.

[Jim MM]

This decision is a victory for democracy.

[ATXRED]

Only seen a couple of eps but Ron at the vegan store was great. Gonna download em all tonight.

 

Ron at Home Depot (large chain hardware store) has my favorite scene in the entire series.

[Salou]

They should definitely release this...

 

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[Pony Princess]

Finished S3 last night. S3 has really knocked it out of the ball park. Enjoyed S1 and S2 but only S3 has had me laughing out loud. The characters are just ace, Ron Swanson is the ultimate man, April is fucking banging hot and Rob Lowe adds loads to the fun.

 

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[Kevin D]

Tell me, why?

 

Rob Lowe And Rashida Jones Will Be Leaving "Parks And Recreation"

 

Parks and Recreation’s on-again/off-again relationship between Rob Lowe’s Chris Traeger and Rashida Jones’ Ann Perkins will be coming to a head this season: because the two actors will be leaving the beloved NBC comedy.

 

Sources have confirmed Lowe’s and Jones’ departures, which will take place in the show’s 13th episode (likely landing during February sweeps). The season ended with Chris and Ann continuing to try to have a baby together — let’s assume that plot will help usher the two out of Pawnee under happy circumstances.

 

Jones has been on Parks and Rec playing Leslie’s (Amy Poehler) best friend since the show premiered in April 2009. Rob Lowe joined the cast near the end of Season 2 in what was meant to be a guest arc, but turned into a regular role. Both actors will continue to be busy: Jones has a development deal with Warner Bros. Television with her Celeste & Jesse Forever writing partner, Will McCormack; Lowe will play John F. Kennedy in NatGeo’s upcoming Killing Kennedy and will surely pop up on series television again in the future.

 

Representatives of Jones and Lowe did not immediately return emails and calls about the departures. NBC had no comment. The hour-long premiere of Parks and Rec, filmed in London, airs on Sept. 26

[Brigant Moloch]

I watched 4 seasons in a month, absolutely love it, some of the best comedy characters ever. Ron is outstanding but I like them all, they're like my close friends now *sniff* and I'm LITERALLY in tears because of Ann and Chris departure.

 

April is so fucking sexy I'd marry her and lock in the basement to keep her safe

Edited August 18, 2013 by Brigant Moloch

[Kevin D]

Seeing Ron at Glasgow central was just amazing and, at the same time, disappointing to know I had missed the chance of a lifetime. Delighted to have it back.

[Torvald Utne]

Seeing Ron at Glasgow central was just amazing and, at the same time, disappointing to know I had missed the chance of a lifetime. Delighted to have it back.

 

Likewise, all that time they spent filming down Horse Guards Road, about 100 yards from my office and nobody thought to tell me!

[Pony Princess]

Watched the double ep of S06 last night.  Great stuff.

 

Leslie: The Love Actually tour starts at 2:30. Oh, but the Bridget Jones bus tour starts at 2:30 also. What do we do? Ron....your pick.

 

Ron: ..............
 

[Pony Princess]

Anyone following Season 6?  Very good so far.

 

Latest ep.  Ron meets his vegan, yoga-practicing hippy doppleganger.

[RedKnight]

You've left out the bit where you say he's played by Sam Elliott; the leg.

[Kevin D]

No new episode until November 14th. Ridiculous. 

[Kevin D]

Leslie didn't deserve that. The road to the White House is not looking as smooth as it once did.

[Kevin D]

Vintage Parks and Rec, that. The last scene was absolutely fantastic and belongs in the Swanson hall of fame.

[Kevin D]

Marked out at that ending. Being friends with Leslie would be great.

[Jairzinho]

I like this. I've watched about 60 episodes over the last four days, that is no exaggeration. It has got to the point that when I've run out of episodes I'm not sure I'll be able to function.

[polymerpunkah]

 

Quality.

[Torvald Utne]

Does anyone get Craig? I just don't find him remotely funny?

[JagSquared]

Craig is the worst addition hope they bin him off and quickly too.

[Kevin D]

Another year.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-renews-chicago-fire-chicago-689804

 

The three scripted one-hour dramas will return for the 2014-15 season, joining The Blacklist, The Voice and Celebrity Apprentice. Parks and Recreation also was officially picked up for a seventh season.

 

NBC is currently the top-rated network among broadcasters in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic and is enjoying a 20 percent improvement compared to last year, with its highest rating, 25 weeks into the season, in six years. The renewed scripted dramas -- as well as Parks and Recreation -- mark the first returning series to earn early pickups. All four shows hail from NBC's studio counterpart, Universal Television.

PHOTOS: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows 2014-15

 

Chicago Fire will return for a third season after proving a reliable performer for NBC on Tuesdays, regularly winning its 10 p.m. slot with an average of a 3.1 rating among adults 18-49 and an average of 10.6 million viewers. The series, from exec producer Dick Wolf, is up 35 percent year over year in the demo and 33 percent among total viewers. Its move from Wednesdays to Tuesdays this season helped the network improve in the 10 p.m. slot by 24 percent in the demo.

Spinoff Chicago P.D., starring Sophia Bush and also produced by Wolf, becomes the network's second freshman drama to earn a sophomore season (The Blacklist was given an early renewal in December for a second run). The series is averaging a 2.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 8.9 million total viewers, retaining 94 percent of its Law & Order: SVU lead-in and 97 percent among total viewers when factoring in DVR viewing. P.D. has generated NBC's nine best 18-49 results win in its Wednesdays at 10 p.m. slot, excluding the Olympics and SNL specials.

 

PHOTOS: Amy Poehler, Rob Lowe and Adam Scott on the Set of 'Parks and Recreation'

Meanwhile, the fate of Wolf's veteran procedural, SVU, has yet to be determined as star Mariska Hargitay has not yet inked a new deal for the procedural, currently in its 15th season.

 

Grimm, meanwhile, will return for a fourth season after raking as Friday's No. 1 broadcast series among adults 18-49 with a 2.5 rating. The series is up 4 percent year-over-year season-to-date compared to season three and its 8.1 million total viewers average is up 17 percent vs. a year ago. The series is executive produced by Sean Hayes' Hazy Mills and continues the actor-producer's relationship with NBC, which also has a sturdy performer in celebrity reality competition series Hollywood Game Night, though Sean Saves the World has been canceled. NBC has used Grimm in a bid to launch a supernatural-themed Friday this season, pairing it with rookie Dracula, which is not considered likely to return.

 

 

Wednesday's confirmation of Parks and Rec's seventh-season return comes two months after NBC's Bob Greenblatt went "out on a limb" to say that the acclaimed comedy would "return for a seventh season" and announced star Amy Poehler's three-year overall deal. Parks' renewal also will ensure that showrunners Mike Schur and Dan Goor have two series on the air next season, with the niche comedy joining Fox's already-renewed Brooklyn Nine-Nine. For her part, Poehler also has comedy pilot Old Soul in contention at the network.

 

The renewals mark NBC's first veteran scripted series pickups for the 2014-15 broadcast season. The fates of stalwarts Community, SVU, Parenthood, Hannibal and Revolution as well as rookies including About a Boy, Growing Up Fisher, Believe, Crisis, Undateable and The Night Shift will be determined closer to the network's upfront presentation to Madison Avenue ad buyers in May. (Night Shift and Undateable have yet to premiere.) The Michael J. Fox Show is not expected to return after it was pulled from the schedule with a handful of episodes yet to air.

 

Looking at its development slate, NBC has 27 comedies and dramas in the mix (down one from last year), including four series orders: an untitled comedy from Tina Fey starring The Office's Ellie Kemper; co-production Working the Engels; Craig Robinson's six-episode comedy Mr. Robinson; as well as Emerald City. Also on the network's docket are miniseries The Slap, The Bible follow-up A.D., Rosemary's Baby and Peter Pan.

[RedinSweden]

Amy Poehlers brother lives in Stockholm and has just written a sitcom called Welcome to Sweden, produced by her. It looks quite promising and has some nice cameos from April and some other "stars" from the US. His wife in the series is lovely.

I think he wrote the series just to get a chance to get in her pants.