Radio Times: Review by:; Alison Graham

It’s taken this show four years to creep across the Atlantic from the US, where it’s into its fifth series. There’s nothing particularly new here – it’s filmed in mock-documentary style, something done so much better by The Office and Modern Family.

But star Amy Poehler is sweetly appealing as Leslie Knope, passive-aggressive deputy director of parks and recreation in the quiet fictional town of Pawnee. In the opening double bill, Leslie lobbies her bizarre boss to develop a park on the site of a derelict pit. There are funny touches, like the bloodthirsty murals in the town hall, but it all feels a bit thin.

About this programme

1/6. The adventures of Leslie Knope, an over-enthusiastic local government official in the small Indiana city of Pawnee, and her mismatched friends and colleagues. Eager to advance her career, Leslie searches for a big project she can use to make her mark - and thinks she may have found it when nurse Ann Perkins makes a complaint about a disused pit. Comedy, starring Amy Poehler, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones and Nick Offerman.