Amy Poehler is making her long-awaited return to comedy TV.
On Wednesday, Could 7, Peacock introduced they’ve picked up a brand new sequence from Poehler and Mike Schur, who created Parks and Recreation and went on to seek out additional success with The Good Place and A Man on the Inside.
The brand new present, known as Dig, will likely be written and executive-produced by Poehler, 53, and Schur, with the actress set to star within the sequence.
Per the official logline, the upcoming sequence finds “4 girls working at an archeological dig in Greece” who’re all at “wildly totally different crossroads of their lives.”
“When the workforce uncovers a long-buried secret with the potential to rewrite historical past, they discover themselves on the middle of a high-stakes worldwide conspiracy,” the logline continues.
Dig marks Poehler’s first foray into TV because the 2015 sequence finale of Parks and Recreation — and marks the primary time she’s labored with Schur since that finale.
Information of the brand new Peacock comedy sequence comes simply after followers celebrated the tenth anniversary of Parks and Rec‘s conclusion. Although a decade has handed, the forged — which additionally included Nick Offerman, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Aziz Ansari, Chris Pratt and Aubrey Plaza — stays shut.
“All of us are on a textual content chain, and a minimum of as soon as every week all of us add to the chain, and it is nice. Everybody’s so nice. I actually miss them,” Scott, who performed the love curiosity of Poehler’s character Leslie Knope, informed ipromiseyoumedia final month.
“They’re one of the best. It was so enjoyable. Nobody took it with no consideration. All of us had a blast… I do know folks say that about their exhibits. It is annoying, nevertheless it actually was so enjoyable, and everybody … obtained that it was particular, and nobody was sick of going to work.”
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Parks and Recreation will be streamed in full on Peacock, and The Good Place and A Man on the Inside are actually streaming on Netflix.
