Parks and Recreation News

Over the past month or so, TV writers have been working to hip America to an apparently little-known fact: NBC's Thursday-night sitcom lineup does not, as one may have thought, kick off at 9 p.m. ET with The Office only to end an hour later with 30 Rock 's closing credits.

Maybe it was when 10-year-old Manny put down his newspaper to get another cup of espresso, like a little executive Buddha, or maybe it was when he insisted on wearing his traditional Colombian poncho to grade school, that it came to me: "Modern Family'' is an instantly lived-in and fleshed-out sitcom.

Character is the great currency of any good sitcom. Funny jokes, farcical situations, and ironic asides are nothing without well-developed characters and strong comedic actors to bring them to life.

The Wilmington Jaycees' 46th Christmas Parade on Black Friday will be just the beginning of a day of family-oriented festivities.

In the 1954 film "A Star is Born," Judy Garland sings "Born in a Trunk," a tale of the actor's life on the road.

Variety says that Judd Apatow and Universal Pictures have picked up three comedy pitches from Aziz Ansari and Jason Woliner.

Will Arnett will join his wife, Amy Poehler, on "Parks and Recreation" later this season.

When her show "Parks & Recreation" premiered last spring, viewers and critics lambasted the show for being too similar to "The Office," with a lot fewer laughs.

While Amy Poehler and the gang from Parks and Recreation are off on a hunting trip, April the intern and Andy are back at the office, waiting for an important call and killing time.

Tonight, the guys take their annual, illegal, office hunting trip allowing Leslie a perfect opportunity to come along and ruin it.

In the NBC comedy " Parks and Recreation ," Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, an upbeat, low-level bureaucrat determined to make the fictional town of Pawnee, Ind., a better place.

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The pit on Parks and Recreation may have been filled in, but Leslie Knope and several other Parks employees have holes in their hearts.

It seems that there will be a new resident of Pawnee on one of NBC's hit comedies this season.

Actor-producer-screenwriter-all-around Renaissance man Justin Theroux is joining Parks and Recreation in a major recurring role, sources confirm to me exclusively.

Boom chicka bow wow ! That's the sound of sex - and sexiness - making its way into the tiny town of Pawnee, Ind., and the folks of Parks and Recreation are giving us the spiciest Christmas gift ever .

When Lauren Stamile showed up to play a sarcastic, sexy statistics professor on the Halloween episode of "Community" , it was a beacon of hope.

It's nice to see an episode where everybody in the office is working together. They're usually broken up into their own smaller storylines, so people like Donna often get shoved into the background, if we see her at all.

It's not easy capturing the spirit of something. Tonight, the Parks Department was tasked with coming up with a mural that expressed the spirit of Pawnee.

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