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Viacom has renewed its cable license deals for NBCUniversal’s Parks and Recreation and The Office through 2024 and 2025, respectively. Comedy Central will keep exclusive cable rights to The Office through 2021. Parks will on Comedy Central through 2024. The pacts come two months after Viacom secured cable rights to Sei…

Comedic powerhouses with incomparable rapport, Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman recently ventured into unfamiliar territory with Making It, their first unscripted series. Spearheading the project through her Paper Kites shingle, Poehler's pitch for the show was beautiful and succinct. “I think she said, ‘We want it to be…

If the filled-to-the-gills Dolby Theatre in Hollywood was a test audience tonight, then the signs were pretty obvious that Parks and Recreation fans want Leslie Knope back in office once again. A few weeks ago at the Captain Marvel world premiere at the venue, there were cheers obviously from the office: it’s an…

Comedy Central is headed to Pawnee. The Viacom-owned cable net said today that it has acquired all seven seasons of the popular comedy Parks and Recreation and will premiere it with a daylong marathon next month. The ensemble workplace comedy, which aired 125 episodes from 2009-15 on NBC, stars Broad City producer Amy…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for PaleyFest fans. The Paley Center for Media has unwrapped the first three panels for its 36th annual LA event: NBC’s This Is Us, FX’s Pose and a reunion of the cast and creators of Parks and Recreation to mark the 10th anniversary of the Peacock’s popular sitcom. This Is Us…

“I’m tech avail,” beamed Amy Poehler today if there’s a Parks and Recreation reteam in the works. In regards to a realistic timeline for a reunion, Poehler said “God, I have no idea. Everybody has my number…we all have a text chain and talk to each other almost everyday. So I think everybody would be excited to do…

Beyoncé for Mayor of Parks and Recreation‘s Pawnee? Probably not, but the show itself seems a couple votes closer to another term. On today’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Parks & Rec star/producer Amy Poehler tells DeGeneres that the cast of the 2009-2015 NBC comedy would jump at the chance for a Will & Grace-style…

The Parks and Recreation team is not happy that the NRA thanked its spokeswoman Dana Loesch by tweeting a GIF of Amy Poehler’s character from the NBC sitcom, writing “@DLoesh thank you for being the voice of over 5 Million #NRA members.” Loesch represented the NRA at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, organized in the…

Back when Mike Schur was writing for Saturday Night Live–a gig that ran from 1997-2004–he says he became aware of some issues with Kevin Spacey’s behavior when the actor hosted the show. “If you think everybody knew about Louis (C.K.), everybody knew about Kevin Spacey,” Schur said, speaking on a panel with Damon Linde…

In multiple tweets today, Parks and Recreation creator Mike Schur has apologized for appearances by comedian Louis C.K. on the show. Schur’s comments are the latest setback for Louis C.K., who has now lost several projects after allegations of sexual harassment recently surfaced in press accounts, most prominently in…

Ben Schwartz, who played Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on Parks and Recreation, joined Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington in Netflix’s Stranger Things, for an interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner as to whether Keery’s character is, in fact the father of Schwartz’s character. The investigative piece was…

The Emmy wealth and pain was spread around today for shows that had their final seasons this year. If you were Justified or Sons Of Anarchy, it was another chilly sunrise from the TV Academy. If you were Mad Men or Parks And Recreation, which had 11 and three nominations, respectively, it was a very nice morning for…