‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ TO BEGIN LANDMARK FAREWELL SEASON ON TUESDAY, JAN. 13 AT 8 P.M.
Celebrating With a Seven-Week Comedy Event, NBC’s Beloved Series Will Say Farewell With Back-to-Back Episodes Each Week Leading to an Emotional Hourlong Series Finale on Tuesday, Feb. 24 Following “The Voice”
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Dec. 1, 2014 — In the first TV event of the new year, NBC is giving its landmark comedy “Parks and Recreation” a sendoff that will maximize the show’s cultural impact. The seventh and final season of this critically-acclaimed and beloved series will begin Tuesday, Jan. 13 with back-to-back episodes (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) and continue with back-to-back episodes each week until the hourlong series finale on Tuesday, Feb. 24 following “The Voice.”
The return of the series, in fact, will be scheduled to premiere in the afterglow of the Jan. 11 “72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards,” co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
“Mike Schur and Amy Poehler, along with their incredible producers, cast, and crew, have given us one of the great television comedies of all time, and we’re inordinately proud of ‘Parks and Recreation,’” said NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt. “In an effort to give it the send-off it deserves, we wanted to ‘eventize’ the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly-anticipated one-hour finale will air behind ‘The Voice’ in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television.”
“Critics, viewers and all of us at NBC fell in love with this endearing, funny, heartfelt show and its authentic cast of characters,” added Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment. “After seven amazing seasons, saying goodbye to the folks of Pawnee will be bittersweet, so we want to give the show and its fans the most impactful final season possible.”
Starring Golden Globe winner Amy Poehler as a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Ind., “Parks and Recreation” has been Emmy Award nominated and is a winner of the Television Critics Assn. Award for best comedy, AFI Award, American Comedy Award and the highly prestigious Peabody Award.
The series also stars Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Jim O’Heir and Retta.
Last season, “Parks and Recreation” averaged a 1.6 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 3.8 million viewers overall in “live plus seven day” averages from Nielsen Media Research. “Parks” was the #3 most upscale primetime series on the Big 4 in its concentration of adults 18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes with a 161 index (100 represents an average concentration of those homes). “Parks” was also the youngest show on ABC, CBS or NBC last season, with a median age for its audience of 41.7.
“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.
Celebrating With a Seven-Week Comedy Event, NBC’s Beloved Series Will Say Farewell With Back-to-Back Episodes Each Week Leading to an Emotional Hourlong Series Finale on Tuesday, Feb. 24 Following “The Voice”
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Dec. 1, 2014 — In the first TV event of the new year, NBC is giving its landmark comedy “Parks and Recreation” a sendoff that will maximize the show’s cultural impact. The seventh and final season of this critically-acclaimed and beloved series will begin Tuesday, Jan. 13 with back-to-back episodes (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) and continue with back-to-back episodes each week until the hourlong series finale on Tuesday, Feb. 24 following “The Voice.”
The return of the series, in fact, will be scheduled to premiere in the afterglow of the Jan. 11 “72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards,” co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
“Mike Schur and Amy Poehler, along with their incredible producers, cast, and crew, have given us one of the great television comedies of all time, and we’re inordinately proud of ‘Parks and Recreation,’” said NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt. “In an effort to give it the send-off it deserves, we wanted to ‘eventize’ the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly-anticipated one-hour finale will air behind ‘The Voice’ in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television.”
“Critics, viewers and all of us at NBC fell in love with this endearing, funny, heartfelt show and its authentic cast of characters,” added Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment. “After seven amazing seasons, saying goodbye to the folks of Pawnee will be bittersweet, so we want to give the show and its fans the most impactful final season possible.”
Starring Golden Globe winner Amy Poehler as a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Ind., “Parks and Recreation” has been Emmy Award nominated and is a winner of the Television Critics Assn. Award for best comedy, AFI Award, American Comedy Award and the highly prestigious Peabody Award.
The series also stars Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Jim O’Heir and Retta.
Last season, “Parks and Recreation” averaged a 1.6 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 3.8 million viewers overall in “live plus seven day” averages from Nielsen Media Research. “Parks” was the #3 most upscale primetime series on the Big 4 in its concentration of adults 18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes with a 161 index (100 represents an average concentration of those homes). “Parks” was also the youngest show on ABC, CBS or NBC last season, with a median age for its audience of 41.7.
“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.
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Rude that they're burning it off and putting the show up against NCIS. I'm going to miss it so much.
ReplyDeleteNice burn off, NBC!
ReplyDeleteSurprised they are airing the finale after The Voice premiere when they could use it to premiere Mr. Robinson/One Big Happy.
I would have been fine if last seasons finale was the end but I'm glad that its coming back. I'm excited for the three year time jump.
ReplyDeleteI hate that their just burning it off like this.
ReplyDeleteI got really excited by this but doubling the episodes means it finished by the end of Feb and I'm not emotionally ready for that yet! awww.
ReplyDeleteOh what the hell NBC putting it against The Flash.
ReplyDeleteWhy are people so upset about it being "burned off"? The show is over, it's never been a ratings performer anyway, NBC has literally nothing to air it with, it's being used for an actual purpose (bridge cycles of The Voice) - like, calm down. Let's all cry that you got seven seasons of a show that would've been cancelled very quickly on CBS or ABC...or, heck, even FOX before they melted down.
ReplyDeleteYeah not a great idea.
ReplyDeleteEhm, right. Just burning off episodes and then airing the series finale after The Voice. This makes absolutely no sense NBC!
ReplyDeleteOh can't wait going to miss this when goes off air
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't bother me really, I'm eager to see the episodes so 60 minute installments is good for me. It's not like they needed to try to gain huge ratings, the show is on its way out. And it's pretty cool that they're letting the finale air after The Voice to try to grab viewers when they could easily give it to one of their new series. Seven weeks will sure fly by, though.
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