For Adam Scott, Parks and Recreation‘s 2015 collection finale left the door open to a number of spinoff tales.
Throughout a current look on Leisure Weekly’s The Awardist podcast, Scott revealed which resident of the fictional city of Pawnee, Indiana, he want to see return to the small display screen. “Most likely Jerry,” he shared, referring to Jim O’Inheritor‘s character.
“Once we left the present, he was mayor, nonetheless, of Pawnee,” Scott recalled. “I’d prefer to see how that labored out, like, if there have been any scandals or if he was in a position to hold his powder dry and run the city in the way in which we all know it needs to be run. I really feel like Jerry would have completed a terrific job.”
Scott even stated that Aziz Ansari‘s character, Tom Haverford, would additionally “be a great one to test in with.”
As followers bear in mind, the Parks and Recreation collection finale featured glimpses into every of the characters’ futures. After being appointed the interim Mayor of Pawnee in Season 7, Jerry’s finale flash ahead confirmed him persevering with to carry the workplace till his dying on the age of 100 in 2048. (Season 7 was set within the yr 2017 regardless of its 2015 launch.)
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Along with the present’s important solid — which included Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Retta, and Rob Lowe — a Jerry-focused spinoff may additionally see the return of Christie Brinkley as his spouse, Gayle Gergich, and their three daughters.
Parks and Recreation ran for seven seasons on NBC from 2009 to 2015 and centered across the staff of Pawnee’s Parks and Recreation division. The solid reunited nearly for a 2020 particular/fundraiser for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund.
Scott pitched his present concept comes as one other of NBC’s hottest sitcoms, The Workplace, prepares to launch its personal spinoff. The collection, titled The Paper, will premiere on Peacock on September 4. Set inside The Workplace universe, The Paper will comply with the identical Dunder Mifflin Scranton department documentary crew as they comply with the workers of a historic Midwestern newspaper.
Whereas Parks and Recreation followers will nonetheless have to attend for a revival or spinoff, Poehler dropped the trailer of her and her castmate’s Philly Justice pilot on a Might episode of her Good Dangle podcast. (Poehler, Scott, Jones, Kathryn Hahn, and Paul Rudd famously filmed a pilot for the pretend courtroom procedural throughout downtime on Parks and Recreation.)
Hahn shared her pleasure over the beforehand unseen footage in a March interview with TV Insider. “It’s a phenomenal trailer,” she shared. “I really feel like that may be a present that needs to be made. You’re going to be very excited to see this trailer. We actually went for it. It’s an actual present.”