Parks and Recreation [RTE Pace]

evolving_doors

Just caught the end of an RTE promo for upcoming programs... thought I heard the words 'Parks and Recreation'
Is this true?
Tried looking thru RTE website but no joy

Bondvillain

Just advertised on Rté 2 there now as "coming soon", so yeah, it looks like it is.

Mindkiller

They should just skip right ahead to season 2.

Dman001

Now if only they'd pick up Community!

Skid

Yeah, RTE has picked up 'Parks and Recreation'

Starts this Friday at 8pm on RTE2 (Followed by Ep 2 at 8.30)

"Season 1 Episode 1 of 6
Pilot New series. The adventures of Leslie Knope, an over-enthusiastic local government official in the small Indiana city of Pawnee, and her mismatched friends and colleagues. Eager to advance her career, Leslie searches for a big project she can use to make her mark - and thinks she may have found it when nurse Ann Perkins makes a complaint about a disused pit. Comedy, starring Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones and Nick Offerman"

I wonder how long will RTE stick with it in a Primetime (ish) time slot?

Miguel_Sanchez

Excellent. I've been meaning to check this out.

Goolay

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Excellent. I've been meaning to check this out.

Be warned, first (short) season isn't great. Gets much better from Season 2 onward.

Mindkiller

I don't think it became a really 'great' show until season 3. Season 2 gets good when they go on the hunting trip.

I hope RTE stick with it. It would suck if everyone dropped it because of the first few crappy episodes.

McSpud

Will Irish audiences get Ron Swanson?

nkay1985

Good decision by RTE I think. Agree that the first season might not grab enough people's attention though. It's really very good.

Basq

Was pretty damn average until mid-way through season 2.

Been amazing since!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXREEVpjloo

expectationlost

watched first 6 ep season, verrrry thin, don't get it, amy poehler ain't funny.

Basq

expectationlost wrote: »

watched first 6 ep season, verrrry thin, don't get it amy poehler ain't funny.

I gave up after the first season too..

.. but heard great things about it in season 2 so went back to it.

Much improved in it's second and third seasons.

expectationlost

amy poehler

Basq

expectationlost wrote: »

amy poehler

K....?

bnt

I had to stop the first episode of P&R after a minute or so: I can't stand "shaky cam" tricks any more. The worst is when the cameraman suddenly zooms in just a little with a jerk, like he's trying to make the camerawork look amateur. I see that and I just want to turn the TV off, and there were at least two of those in the first minute.

Overature

i would actually watch this, just finished the first season and it was fairly crap though

Mason Storm

Have RTE given up on this or just hidden it somewhere in the middle of the night?

Mindkiller

The first season is only 6 episodes. I turned it on the other night and they were up to episode 5 so they didn't give up

KeanSeenan

Stick with it, it's gonna get so goooood.

Namlub

Hmm, watched the first few episodes and was bored to death but judging by this thread I shouldn't give up...

sillo

Mindkiller wrote: »

They should just skip right ahead to season 2.

This. A thousand times this. S1 was really really underwhelming - it felt like the EP had his grubby hands all over it and was trying to make it identical to the office.

It's only once S2 sets in and they all start to find their voices that this show takes off. Now it's probably my favourite comedy on 'telly'.

Seren_

I actually quite liked season 1 Maybe the fact that I've never watched an episode of The US Office helped...

wandatowell

I thought it was just me, didnt like season 1 at all.

Roll on Season 2

December2012

Jut finding this thread now. This show is sooooo good, much better in seasons 2 and beyond. Was it ever continued on rte?

JP Liz V1

Season 2 starts to RTE 2 Monday 2nd of July 2012 at 8.30pm

brian_t

RTE was the first channel to show Parks And Recreation on this side of the atlantic but it has just been bought by BBC4.

Forget the Emmys showered on Modern Family: this Amy Poehler comedy, which centres around the oddball employees of the parks and recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, is arguably the strongest sitcom on US television right now, making its late arrival in Britain all the more surprising.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/nov/22/parks-and-recreation-bbc4

TarfHead

The most recent episode on US TV had a great cameo from Veep Joe Biden. Amy Poehler's performance in that scene was also great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvbMB_GGR6s

iptba

Has Parks and Recreation been dropped by RTE and BBC4? I haven't seen it in a long time (though I do recall one time my search button on Sky not finding it when it was there). All I saw was to the end of season 3 I think.

[I hope it's ok to bring up this old thread].

JONJO THE MISER

I think it comes on network 2 around end of march/april every year.