PARKS AND RECREATION Final Season Get a Premiere Date; NBC Will Burn Off Season Over Seven Weeks

The final season of Parks and Recreation will premiere on Jan. 13, 2015. NBC announced on Monday that the network will air back-to-back episodes through the hourlong series finale on Feb. 24.

"Mike Schur and Amy Poehler, along with their incredible producers, cast and crew, have given us one of the great television comedies of all time, and we're inordinately proud of Parks and Recreation," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement. "In an effort to give it the send-off it deserves, we wanted to 'eventize' the final season to maximize the impact of these episodes, which really do take the show to a new level. The highly anticipated one-hour finale will air behind The Voice in order to lead the largest audience possible into what promises to be a very special hour of television."

Oh, NBC, you want to "eventize" Parks and Recreation? Are you sure that's what you want to do, or are you really just burning off the final season as quickly as possible because you have no idea how to  properly promote Parks and Rec and really, really want to get out of the sitcom game?

I'm guessing it's the latter.