Community, the tv show

Community is being pulled from NBC's mid-season schedule.

NOOOOOO

fuuuuuuuuuck

The new drama “The Firm” moves into the Thursday lineup (10-11 p.m. ET) beginning January 12 following its two-hour premiere the previous Sunday (January 8) from 9-11 p.m. ET. The first-season comedy “Up All Night” will also move to Thursday nights at 9:30 p.m. (ET) on January 12 which is also the night that multiple Emmy Award-winning “30 Rock” returns for its season debut (8-8:30 p.m. ET). “Parks and Recreation” (8:30-9 p.m. ET) and the Emmy-winning “The Office” (9-9:30 p.m. ET) remain in the same time periods.

:D

I wonder if the cast/Dan Harmon were warned ahead of time? This has to be the downside of having a Twitter presence, everyone's going to be baying for answers/reassurance.

Ah, the satisfaction of hitting suggest ban. xp

http://twitter.com/brianstelter/statuses/136218962139688960

;_;

The best part is that Whitney is moving to Wednesday. Thank christ.

oh fuck. heartbreaking news.

oh noooo

RIP 2nd best comedy on television. Fuck NBC.

If it's not canceled but in time-slot limbo, that's a little more reassuring; putting a known quantity like 30 Rock against all the heavy hitters at 8:00 is probably a better move on NBC's part. But if Thursday is closed to Community, and Wednesday is the Whitney/Chelsea Handler Power Hour, there really isn't anywhere for it to go...

Part of me hopes the Thursday @ 10 drama flops and they go back to a 3 hour Thursday comedy bloc.

I mean, conceivably it could come back late in the season, or at the beginning of next season...but I fear that if it does, it'll be with serious trying-to-grab-ratings retooling.

I hate to say this, but I'd be less upset if 30 Rock was cancelled outright.

shouldn't be surprised, really.

In any event, all 22 episodes ordered will be shot and aired.

And guys, there's no ratings-grab they'll be able to do. This doesn't change anything regarding the show's future.

silver lining: donald glover will now be able to dedicate himself full-time to childish gambino. right, guys?

and dan harmon can dedicate himself full-time to alcoholism

this is the worst.

:(

I'd already gotten my mind around the fact there was in no way going to be a fourth season, but I hadn't anticipated they might yank it in the middle of its third.

Rumoured to be moving to summer slot :P

In any event, all 22 episodes ordered will be shot and aired.

― encarta it (Gukbe), Monday, November 14, 2011 6:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

gukbe otm, yall need to chill

I just firmly convinced myself that Sony will sell the show to fx who will keep it going at 13 batshit episodes a year.

Yeah that's exactly what's going to happen.

i'm willing to jettison pierce if it saves on costs. or we could replace chevy with whiney on the cheap

'whiney wipes'

was hilarious seeing the internet freak out over this today

xp me too! i don't know how these things work, but why wouldn't a cable station pick it up? copyright issues? it'd do better on hbo than bored to death, and that's not getting canceled anytime soon.

network shows have only been picked up by cable networks like a handful of times ever but for some reason people think that option is ALWAYS on the table and super likely

My delusional scenario is community going the one life to live route.

for those of you unaware of the one life to live situation:

"Transition to The Online Network with Prospect Park

On September 16, 2011 current OLTL executive producer Frank Valentini was retained by Prospect Park for the serial as well as All My Children when both shows move on The Online Network. [40] On September 28, 2011, Prospect Park confirmed that One Life to Live will start on its The Online Network internet channel in January 2012, but without specifying the exact date.[9]

Since the agreement made between ABC and Prospect Park is not limited to internet television and does allow One Life to Live to be broadcast on traditional television, there was an announcement on August 3, 2011 about a possibility of One Life to Live airing on a cable channel. [41][42] On October 5, 2011, the project to bring One Life to Live to cable was reiterated in a New York Times article, where it is revealed that Prospect Park plans to first air episodes on The Online Network, then make them available on television on demand and, then weeks later, on cable television. [43] However, nothing has been confirmed or been made official about One Life to Live going to either TOD or cable."

It won't ever happen. Sons of Anarchy does better ratings on FX than community does on NBC. How far would community plummet on FX?

There's no copyright issue however. NBC doesn't own community, Sony does. XP.

if Community goes off the air anytime soon i am going to be very happy with my 60+ episodes and looking forward to future projects from everyone involved, not begging and pleading for a move to cable or a movie spinoff

some dude: oh i know. it's just strange that it doesn't happen more often, when most cable stations would be happy to pull in community's ratings. and premium stations are all about the brand anyway, and what's better for your brand than preventing the next arrested development disaster? and i think in light of AD and futurama, it'd be more likely now than a decade ago.

cable stations might be happy to pull in community's ratings but a) those ratings would be even worse on a cable station and b) they won't pay the kind of money likely required to retain six main characters, some of whom can probably break out a bit

seven characters, my bad

i don't know tons about hollywood or w/e but i'm guessing another factor is that if you're an executive at, say, fx or tbs, and you want to move up in your profession or at your network, walking into a job interview and going "well in my time at fx i brought 15 major network cast offs onto our network and they did pretty decent ratings. i mean, for cable anyway. but the fanbase was really strong on twitter" is probably a lot less impressive than "i developed breaking bad"

I think there's a decent shot NBC will give it a fourth season. Well, as good a shot as it had after the first episode of the season aired. It depends on how the mid-season replacements go really.

I also realise I was crowing on about the DOOM SCENARIO about 6 weeks ago.

cable doesn't need as many viewers but they also need to have much lower budgets -- everyone on futurama had to take a pay cut and there was a noticeable dip in the production values of the animation

Also somebody on twitter pointed out that Sony pushed Til Death to 4 seasons for the syndication value of passing 80 episodes, and that was on Fox which has a number of actual ratings successes. NBC still doesn't have shit except Sunday Night Football, a waning Biggest Loser, SVU, and now a dipping Friday night "hit".

most cable stations would be happy to pull in community's ratings.

probably not for community's budget though.

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nbc is in such an incredible shambling state that community returning as a mid-season replacement or just coming back next fall are not even really long-shots. it's certainly on the table.

i can't help but feel like 4 seasons would have been a perfect length for the show and i still hold out hope that Sony will bully/bribe NBC into doing four full years for syndication possibilities

A move to cable just isn't going to happen for all the reasons mentioned on top of many more.

and yeah the bigger cable channels are probably more interested in developing their own shows than picking up network castoffs.

this goes double for HBO, whose entire profile is based on developing (not just airing) "quality" programming.

I'd be cool if we had an S4 of nothing but bottle episodes

you guys who aren't up on harmon's old channel 101/acceptable tv stuff should REALLY check that out because the whole idea there is that if people don't like a show and 'cancel' it they've already got another idea down the pike. i'm sure he's gonna do something else awesome the minute community runs its course.

i thought that about mitch hurwitz but...