Community fans won’t have to stage an uprising. (Well, maybe just a small mutiny over the size of the order.) The cult NBC/Sony Pictures TV comedy series has been renewed for next season with a 13-episode order. The short pickup is not a surprising. As we reported, NBC had been eying abbreviated orders for most or all of its returning comedies, which freed up money to pick up more freshmen. With the renewal secured, the question Community faces heading into its fourth season is whether it will return with both creator/showrunner Dan Harmon and co-star Chevy Chase on board. There has been a well documented feud between the two, raising speculation whether they could continue to work together or one would step down. I hear it is unclear as of now if Harmon will continue as showrunner. That is a possibility, with other scenarios also explored. Leaving Community are longtime executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan who just signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV.
NBC's 'Community' Renewed For Fourth Season With 13-Episode Order
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…and Annie and Jeff have got to get together, its like the only thing keeping me on the edge of my seat. “After three long years and tons of awkward moments filled with sexual tension, Jeff and Annie, will they or won’t they?” [hot damn, say that in your head with Abed’s voice, its magic ;) ]
I’m sorry but I think that I would rather see Chevy go than Dan, I mean if you look back on the shows Pierce is just that guy that chimes in when no one else has anything to say and then when he does people just tell him to stuff it. What is the point of this character? All he does is make racist, sexist, and chauvinistic comments or repeats things that Jeff says, and there is no need because the show already has the perfect mix of racism, sexism, chauvinism, and Jeffism. Boot Chevy, I respect him as an actor but in this case he is just bland. Either he should go or they need to give his character some damn substance cuz he is just downright boring.
Why are people happy about this, just thirteen episodes? Thats garbage, give us a full 22 episode season. Lets all be perfectly honest with ourselves here short seasons are crap, they were crap when Lost started doing them and they are crap with every other show out there as well. And here is why, a show’s best stuff usually shows up mid season when its not being artificially pushed along by the story arc needing to begin or end.
So you waste the first episode recapping everything and resolving finale issues, and you spend the end of the season wrapping things up or pulling plot twists, but the 17 or so episodes in the middle are the classics, the episodes that don’t need to abide by any rules.
This shortened season will be forced garbage, all it will be is them trying to wrap stuff up and end things, I guess that means community is basically done for. Instead they will waste money on crap sitcoms that will go fail immediately
Troy and Abed make the show. Bitter much?
The problem NBC has, and the reason that while this show would be considered a success on a cable channel (when you account for DVR and download numbers), is that the’re still weighed down with an archaic business model that requires them to service the affiliates to survive. If Community were on a channel like AMC alongside Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead, keeping it would be a no-brainer, the ratings and DVR / download numbers are sufficient to pay the bills. Unfortunately, NBC has to deal with local affiliates who don’t give a damn about DVD sales or downloads because those don’t help them sell advertising and they don’t get their cut on those. So, a show that’s successful by objective measures will get canned because the distribution system can’t keep up with the modern world. Hooray!