'Parks and Recreation' Final Season Spoilers, News: Production to 'Eventize' Final Episodes
NBC has announced that its seventh and final season of "Parks and Recreation" will be airing back-to-back episodes starting Jan. 13 next year, Tuesday. The show will be replacing "The Voice" for the seven weeks it will air. Afterwards, the series will end its run with an hour-long finale on February 24 following "The Voice."
"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 Robert Greenblatt, the NBC Entertainment chairman.
"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," Greenblatt added.
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The start of the final season of the series will air two days after NBC's Jan. 11 broadcast of the 72nd annual Golden Globes, which will be co-hosted by "Parks and Recreation" star Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.
It is unclear what NBC is planning to air after "Parks and Recreation" has been given its send-off in February. The drama series "The Blacklist" will be taking over the Thursday 9 p.m. time slot while "State of Affairs" will be taking over the 10PM time slot, presently occupied by "The Blacklist."
"Parks and Recreation" is a comedy television series starring Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Jim O'Heir, and Retta.
