{"id":11408,"date":"2023-03-30T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:28:30","slug":"adam-scott-party-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=11408","title":{"rendered":"Adam Scott says &#8216;it felt very &#8216;Party Down&#8217; to be cancelled&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"Actor Adam Scott is interviewed on Seth Meyers' \" late night.><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/party-down-season-three-review\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Party Down<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s 2023 reboot with a third season saw the catering gang back together, still aiming for Hollywood stardom.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Scott joined <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Meyers on <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/late-night-with-seth-meyers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Late Night<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday to unpack <em>Party Down<\/em>&#8216;s resurgence, in which he returns to his role as Henry &#8220;Are We Having Fun Yet?&#8221; Pollard. The show, written by John Enbom, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, and Paul Rudd, saw abysmal audience numbers when it originally aired in 2009 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/02\/ken-marino-party-down-season-3-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nielsen rated the show 0.0 among 18- to 49-year-olds.<\/a> Starz cancelled it the very next year after Season 2, but <em>Party Down<\/em> organically grew a burgeoning fan base years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody was watching this show when it was on but then they found it after the fact,&#8221; says Meyers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, like seven years later,&#8221; agrees Scott. &#8220;We got cancelled, rightly so, in 2010. Our series finale had 13,000 viewers. So we should have been cancelled as it turns out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a TV show <em>anyone could watch<\/em> that did less numbers than a Taylor Swift show,&#8221; says Meyers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One concert would dwarf our entire audience,&#8221; says Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott speaks to how the show absolutely died \u2014 &#8220;It&#8217;s the late, great <em>Party Down<\/em>!&#8221; \u2014 but then reflects on the reboot getting the gang back together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It ended and we were so deeply bummed. But it also felt very <em>Party Down<\/em> to be cancelled. It kind of fit in with the ethos of the show&#8230;If we won in any way it just wouldn&#8217;t feel right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Party Down<\/em> is now streaming on the Starz app.\u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/party-down-season-3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">everything you need to know before you watch <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/party-down-season-3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Party Down<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/video\/party-down-season-3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"> Season 3<\/a> and here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/party-down-season-three-review\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Mashable&#8217;s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party Down&#8216;s 2023 reboot with a third season saw the catering gang back together, still aiming for Hollywood stardom. 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