<P> Portlandia is a sketch comedy television series set and filmed in and around Portland, Oregon, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein . The show is produced by Broadway Video Television and IFC Original Productions . It was created by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, along with Jonathan Krisel, who directs it . It debuted on IFC on January 21, 2011 . </P> <P> The show shares its title with the sculpture of the same name that sits above the entrance of the Portland Building on Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland, which appears in the show's title sequence . The show has won a Peabody Award . </P> <P> In January 2017, the series was renewed for an eighth and final season to debut in 2018 . </P> <P> Brownstein and Armisen first met in 2003 and began collaborating on a series of comedy sketches for the Internet in 2005 titled ThunderAnt . The sketches became increasingly Portland - centric, with premises ranging from irate diners at a popular Hawthorne District restaurant registering ridiculous complaints on the review website Yelp! to a character's disastrous one - man performance at the city's Hollywood Theatre . </P>

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