Parks and Recreation, the popular NBC sitcom starring Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Rob Lowe, and Nick Offerman that ran from 2009 to 2015, “never succeeded” in the ratings and was always on the verge of cancellation, Jones revealed this week.
Despite the show’s resurgence amid streaming availability years after its last episode, Jones revealed that, at the time of filming the series, it wasn’t a hit—by a long shot. “[Parks and Recreation] is kind of iconic now—It’s like one of those great comedies of that time, which is so awesome,” Jones said in a new episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast released on Monday, “But we didn't feel that way.”
“Every single season, we were like, this is it. They’re not gonna want us back,” she continued. “At one point we were canceled and then the president of NBC got off the plane and changed his mind. It was like, ‘Eh, don’t cancel it yet, I guess.’ It was not really a thing at all.”
