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EXCLUSIVE: As The Good Place kicked off its second season on NBC this week, the network has bought two high-profile new projects executive produced by The Good Place creator/executive producer Mike Schur. Both have received put pilot commitments with significant penalties attached. One, a musical, is a collaboration…

The Good Place, from Michael Schur, stars Kristen Bell as a woman who dies and, due to a clerical error, accidentally winds up in The Good Place, where the book store is called All the Books and the clothing store is Everything Fits. Ted Danson plays a Good Place middle manager, who realizes he’s in over his head on…

It wasn’t over for the Parks and Recreation cast after tonight’s finale with the gang gathering on Late Night With Seth Meyers to reminisce about how they became what Meyers hailed “the best cast on television. It must have been like putting The Avengers together”. With co-creator Michael Schur jumping the last season…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Parks And Recreation series finale on NBC. After seven seasons and more than one or two potential cancellations, Parks And Recreation came to an end tonight with a lot of looks years into the future for Amy Poehler’s Leslie Knope, Nick Offerman's Ron Swanson…

With the $15 million weekend opening of Sex Tape serving as exhibit A, it would be an understatement to say that romantic feature comedies have been in a sling creatively and at the B.O. for sometime.  But for those TV creators who love the genre at Fox’s “Behind the Laughs” TCA panel, if romantic comedies are alive…

Schedule changes and lack of certain Primetime Emmy noms doesn’t keep Brooklyn Nine-Nine down. Co-creators Mike Schur and Dan Goor, EP David Miner, and the cast gathered on the CBS Radford lot today to give the TCA corps a look at their urban work environment and provide some insight into Season 2. With Brooklyn now…

Michael Schur knows how to make comedy work when TV viewership is splintered by the internet and delayed DVR viewing. For him, nabbing a large audience isn't a sprint so much as a marathon, and that philosophy has translated into a cult following for each of the series he's helped create: The Office, Parks and Recreati…

With two series on the air, Michael Schur is among the key writer-producers on Universal Television‘s roster, and the studio is making sure he stays there. Uni TV has signed a new overall deal with Schur, keeping him in the fold through 2016. Schur is co-creator/executive producer on the Uni TV-produced Parks And Recre…

In a very competitive situation that went down to the wire, Fox has nabbed a comedy pitch from the Parks & Recreation duo of co-creator/exec producer/showrunner Michael Schur and executive producer Dan Goor with a pilot production commitment. The single-camera comedy, from Universal Television and 3 Arts…

There is a heatwave in Hollywood these days, and it’s not just the scorching temperatures outside. After a sluggish start of the buying season, comedies are getting red-hot with another bidding war. A pitch from the Parks & Recreation duo of co-creator/exec producer/showrunner Michael Schur and co-executive producer Da…

Here's is the Deadline/TVline assessment of 2011 Emmy comedy races: Deadline/TVline: 2011 Comedy Series Overview Competition for Emmy nominations among this year's Outstanding Comedy Series contestants is no laughing matter. The showdown between two 20th Century TV hits is more intense than ever, with Modern Family…

Deadline TV contributor Diane Haithman files this report: NBC's Parks And Recreation, which stars Amy Poehler as a small town public servant, has a sterling pedigree for an Emmy. It was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, who respectively are the creator and creative team member for NBC's multi-award-winning…