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Buzz News Roundup, 7/31
- Amy Poehler will anchor a couple of episodes of Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday to promote Parks and Recreation. — Entertainment Weekly
- Matthew McConaughey and Eva Mendes are in talks to star in the drama Southbound. — ComingSoon
- Russell Crowe will star in The Next Three Days, the adaptation of the 2008 French film Pour Elle, for Crash director Paul Haggis.
Amy Poehler Is a Mischievous Lunch Lady
It's like cute overload over here with this Lunch Lady news. Amy Poehler is attached to star in a film adaptation of a children's graphic novel series, Lunch Lady. The books focus on "a mild-mannered school cafeteria server who secretly dishes out helpings of justice as she and her assistant investigate wrongdoings.
TV Tonight: Parks and Recreation
The majority of you were into last week's premiere of Parks and Recreation — but will you be tuning back in tonight? I liked the pilot well enough, but now I'm curious to see what the Parks and Rec team does with the characters we met last week.
Tonight, they're canvassing.
Pilot Watch: Parks and Recreation
Quite a few new shows are hitting our TVs this week, but none's more anticipated than tomorrow's premiere of Parks and Recreation, the comedy starring Amy Poehler from the creators of The Office. I've seen the first episode of the series, and here's my initial take:
What's it about? Leslie Knope is a mid-level Parks and Recreation Department bureaucrat in Pawnee, IN, who dreams of a life in the public spotlight.
Is Parks and Recreation in Trouble? Maybe, Maybe Not
There's been some less-than-encouraging news this week for Parks and Recreation, NBC's upcoming comedy starring Amy Poehler. A focus group study found some pretty serious problems with an early cut of the show, which premieres April 9, including: The pacing's too slow, it's too much like The Office, and there's a lack of "datable" men.
First of all, Aziz Ansari is totally datable.
Chris Pratt Books Parks Job Alongside Rashida Jones — And Paul Schneider and Nick Offerman are Joining Him
NBC's oft-renamed Parks and Recreation finally has another cast member! Everwood alum Chris Pratt has joined the show, playing the boyfriend of Rashida Jones's nurse character, Ann.
Update: The final two major characters have also now been cast!
First Look: Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation
Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones hopped on set to start filming their new sitcom last week, and it looks like it was just in time! The first ad for the new show, now called Parks and Recreation, aired during the special post-Super Bowl episode of The Office last night.
The short promo shows Poehler as Leslie Knope, a parks committee member from Pawnee, Indiana, wandering around an abandoned pit and picking up trash while talking about her vow to turn it into a lovely park.
Buzz News Roundup, 1/26
- NBC's Amy Poehler comedy has a likely title: Public Service. — New York Times
- Anchor Bay has bought the rights to the comedy starring Ashton Kutcher, Spread, which just premiered at Sundance. — Variety
- The next Real World season will be set in Cancun.
Amy Poehler's Show Has a Lot of Funny People (But No Title)
Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, and writers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur just got the room laughing here at the TCA press tour in their first session for their new show. (Seriously, go here to hear about Poehler's Jason Bourne connection.)The show's still untitled, but we now know a little bit about the plot: Poehler plays Leslie, a mid-level local government operative who partners with Jones's character to help get a park built. Ansari plays a schmoozing networker who's most interested in his own rise.
Two Bits of Office-Related News
It's NBC day at TCA, and I'm most looking forward to the session with Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, and the creators of the non-spinoff spinoff of The Office. The show is still technically untitled, but some bits of the plot have dribbled out thanks to copies of the pilot script that were left in reporters' hotel rooms last night. Meanwhile, The Office mothership is getting an exciting new cast member — well, at least for fans of The Wire.
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