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Amy Poehler Visits IFC and (More Important) Me!
This Friday, Amy Poehler is Scott Aukerman’s guest on his supersmart, funny new IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang! which does for talk shows what Christopher Guest mockumentaries have done for dog shows, community theater and other cultural touchstones. Poehler’s deadpan turn as an...
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Can Aubrey Plaza Time Travel? 'Safety Not Guaranteed'
Safety Not Guaranteed is not a sci-fi movie, even though the story is about a group of reporters following up on an ad for a partner to time-travel with: “Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed.” And it’s not a Duplass Brothers film even though the droll, low-key s...
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'Parks and Recreation' and 'Up All Night' Renewed
Following yesterday's news that "Community" and "30 Rock" would be back for 13-episode seasons on NBC (for Tina Fey's show, the confirmed final season), the network's now announced that "Parks and Recreation" has been renewed as well.
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'Community' and '30 Rock' Will Be Back for Short Seasons
Update: NBC has now renewed "Parks and Recreation" for a fifth season.
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Six Seasons And A Movie! NBC Renew 'Community' (Along With '30 Rock' And 'Parenthood')
Upfronts, wherein the networks reveal their programming for the TV season to come, take place next week, and, as such, it's the time of year when invested fans start to bite their nails about their favorite low-rated shows: with many new pilots being ordered to series, the scheduling slots...
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GREY MATTERS: The Decline and Fall of April Ludgate
I guess it was inevitable, but the worst has come to pass, and April Ludgate, the beyond-deadpan carrier of careless anarchic energies, the one-woman friction element who’s kept "Parks and Recreation" from being an "Office" clone from the unsteady git-go, has been muffled into a millennial-generatio...
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Here's the 5 Best Things to Watch the Other 6 Nights of the Week: Stan Lee, Live '30 Rock' and More
If there's any question about what to see on television on Sunday night, it's one of how to juggle the live watching or DVRing of "Mad Men," "Game of Thrones," "The Good Wife," "Girls," "Nurse Jackie" and "Veep," not to mention &quo...
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Is 'Parks and Recreation' Writing Itself Into a Corner With Its Election Storyline?
"Parks and Recreation" returned from a month-long hiatus last night with an episode entitled "Live Ammo" -- a term introduced by guest star Bradley Whitford as a Pawnee city councillor trying to prepare Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) for the hard compromises of elected office. His ad...
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The Small Screen: Patricia Clarkson Awesomely Cast As Ron Swanson's First Ex-Wife In 'Parks & Rec'
To fill in for those of you who haven't watched "Parks and Recreation" (and really, you're running out of excuses at this point -- we did call it the best thing on television earlier in the year), the show's break-out character is Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), the libertarian, meat-loving head of the...
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