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The cast of Parks and Recreation at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in 2012
The cast of Parks and Recreation at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards in 2012

The American television show Parks and Recreation was nominated for a variety of different awards throughout its run, including sixteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations, twice as a comedy series and twice for writing. Parks and Recreation is a situation comedy created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The show premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009 and concluded on February 24, 2015 after airing seven seasons. The series stars Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, an ambitious, mid-level bureaucrat working in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. It was nominated for fifteen Critics' Choice Television Awards (three wins), two Art Directors Guild Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards (one win). Poehler received the most recognition with 25 nominations for acting, winning an American Comedy Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Gracie Award, and receiving six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. (Full list...)

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