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Five years after the series finale, the cast of "Parks and Recreation" reunited Thursday night to raise money for Feeding America with a special episode.
Take a look back at the chronology of the comedy's series finale, "One Last Ride," to make sure Thursday’s reunion episode set in 2020 fits in with the established timeline.
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The cast of “Parks and Recreation” is returning to Pawnee, Indiana for a one-night charity special benefiting Feeding America, NBC announced Thursday.The standalone scripted special will see Pawnee’s most dedicated civil servant, Leslie Knope, determined to stay connected to her friends in a time of social distancing. The entire original cast — Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O’Heir and Retta — is set to reprise their characters from the show.“A Parks and Recreation Special” set to air Thursday, April 30 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.Also Read: 'Saturday Night Live' to Air Another 'At Home' Episode This Week“Like a lot of other people, we were looking for ways to help and felt that bringing these characters back for a night could raise some money,” said executive producer Michael Schur. “I sent a hopeful email to the cast and they all got back to me within 45 minutes. Our old ‘Parks and Rec’ team has put together one more 30-minute slice of (quarantined) Pawnee life and we hope everyone enjoys it. And donates!”The telecast will raise funds for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund, which assists food banks in securing the resources they need to serve the most vulnerable members of the community during this difficult time. State Farm and Subaru of America, along with NBCUniversal and the writers, producers and cast of “Parks and Recreation,” will match donations up to a total of $500,000 through May 21.“In such uncertain times, we can’t think of anyone better than Leslie Knope to unite our country with her unbridled enthusiasm and compassion,” said Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, co-presidents of scripted programming at NBC. “A huge thank you to Mike Schur and the cast of ‘Parks and Recreation’ for putting this wonderful special together and bringing a smile to all our faces while raising money for such a worthwhile cause.”Also Read: NBC Sets Premiere Date for Final Season of 'Blindspot'“Parks and Recreation” ran for seven seasons on NBC between 2009 and 2015. It earned 14 Emmy nominations, including two for Outstanding Comedy Series, as well as a Best Actress win at the Golden Globes for Poehler in 2014.Schur and the show were recently featured in a Vulture article titled “If I Wrote a Coronavirus Episode,” in which the masterminds behind a number of classic television series imagined how their characters would handle the current pandemic.“Parks and Recreation” is a production of Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television. Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, Howard Klein, David Miner, Morgan Sackett and Dean Holland serve as executive producers for the series.Read original story ‘Parks and Recreation’ to Return With a Brand New Episode Inspired by Social Distancing At TheWrap
Our Pawnee pals are back… and for a good cause. The cast of Parks and Recreation will reunite for a one-off scripted special to raise money for food banks during the coronavirus crisis, TVLine has learned. The half-hour special, titled A Parks and Recreation Special, will air Thursday, April 30 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC, and […]
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Aziz Ansari took part in a "Parks and Recreation" reunion for PaleyFest on Thursday night. The actor has kept a low profile since a #MeToo allegation.
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“This Is Us,” “Pose” and a 10-year reunion panel for “Parks and Recreation” are the first shows announced as participating in PaleyFest LA 2019, the Paley Center for Media revealed Wednesday. “Every year PaleyFest presents the best of television, providing fans with a rare behind-the-scenes look at both the hottest new shows as well as […]
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Pop TV is partnering with Scary Mommy, a digital platform voicing the hardships (and joys!) of being a new parent, as the network is set to premiere Season 2 of “Hollywood Darlings” on Wednesday. The deal kicks off with a three-minute “mini-episode” of Scary Mommy’s new show, “Lullaby League,” being showcased when “Darlings” airs at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Hosted by Jim O’Heir of “Parks and Recreation” fame, “Lullaby League” pits a capella groups against each other as they attempt to sing crying babies to sleep.
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Aug. 1 is National Girlfriend Day, a day for women to celebrate their special bond of friendship. And what better way to honor the day than with a look at the five best life lessons about friendship learned from some of television’s most famous girlfriends?
In NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Nick Offerman rocked one of the most iconic mustaches in pop-culture history as Ron Swanson, the red-tape-hating, red-meat-loving civil servant and reluctant friend to Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope. In case you haven’t noticed, that impressively groomed ‘stache has been MIA since the show’s teary 2015 finale, even as Offerman has become an increasingly prolific presence in TV and film. “The mustache was so utilized and well received in Parks & Recreation that it’s gonna be on the bench for a while,” Offerman told Yahoo Movies at the Los Angeles press day for his latest movie, the poignant comedic drama The Hero starring Sam Elliott as an aging movie star coming to terms with his mortality.
Comedian Chris Rock recently revealed that he was the one who convinced fellow comedian Aziz Ansari to go after Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live the day after the president’s inauguration. Rock told New York magazine that Ansari ran his set by him and Rock persuaded him to get political: “I remember he was running his [monologue] set by me, and he was going to do all this relationship stuff.
There’s a Funko Pop! figure for almost every pop culture character you can think of, and the list keeps getting longer. TV fans can be particularly passionate about their Funko collections (See: Our desperate quest for a Funko Joey from the Friends collection), and 2017 will bring them at least 37 more figures to obsess over, from shows as varied as The 100, Parks & Recreation, and Alias. Click through to see the Funko TV friends coming your way this year.
It’s a great premise, although some viewers will inevitably consider it in poor taste: Trial & Error is a sitcom about a man accused of murdering his wife. The man is a small-town poetry professor played by John Lithgow, who portrays fussy outrage superlatively — especially because it looks as though there’s a reasonable chance that this dithering eccentric may have done the terrible deed. Show creators Jeff Astrof and Matt Miller have recognized the untapped market for true-crime parody, and are shrewd enough to give us a suspect utterly unlike Making of a Murderer’s Steven Avery.