Community - Season 4 [US] Spoilers

phasers · 15-11-2011 12:33am

something was always going to be held back for 30 rock's return, and the other ****e that NBC is airing is somehow getting better numbers.

Couldn't this be in the renew/cancel thread or the Community thread? Do you want to gloat or something?

Richard Dower · 15-11-2011 12:33am

expectationlost wrote: »

don't even trust your own source

Critical fave Community is being benched to make way for the return of 30 Rock on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8/7c. (An NBC source insists the show is just taking a breather and has not been canceled.)

#NBC spin!!....the show is toast, it's goose is cooked!...if i was good enough in the ratings it would NEVER get pulled!, this is a clear sign the show is gone come May 2012.

Six seasons and a movie?....i think not!!!

KeanSeenan · 15-11-2011 12:48am

Awhh Shít.

phasers · 15-11-2011 12:51am

don't mind Richard Downer, it's just been pushed back. i'm on my phone and can't link but it's all over Twitter

expectationlost · 15-11-2011 12:52am

better the tired out 30 rock?

Basq · 15-11-2011 12:55am

Urge to kill rising..

NBC has just released its midseason schedule, and with it comes the expected reshuffling of its Thursday night comedy block, and the decision that many viewers feared but perhaps never dared to believe the network might actually go through with: The fervently beloved yet very low-rated Community is being pulled from the lineup, replaced in its timeslot by the returning 30 Rock. So far neither NBC nor creator Dan Harmon has issued a statement on the show’s future, but it should be noted that this isn’t an official cancellation. The New York Times’ Bill Carter (as relayed by colleague Brian Stelter) says that NBC is only keeping Community off the air “for a brief time”—though obviously that’s fairly open-ended, not likely to assuage fans at all, and does not bode well for its chances of being renewed next year. In the meantime, Thursdays will become the new home to Up All Night, while Whitney has finally been shunned and scorned right out of the programming block—and into a cushy new home as the anchor of Wednesday night. So there, everything worked out in the end, except the exact opposite of that.

Richard Dower · 15-11-2011 12:55am

phasers wrote: »

don't mind Richard Downer, it's just been pushed back. i'm on my phone and can't link but it's all over Twitter

If deluded Community fans can't see what is happening hear..........

phasers · 15-11-2011 12:57am

mark my words, it'll be back on the air by March.

FreudianSlippers · 15-11-2011 12:58am

This is pretty awful news.

Richard Dower · 15-11-2011 12:58am

Richard Dower wrote: »

Community.Will.Be.Axed.

I TOLD YOU SO!!

AG2R · 15-11-2011 12:59am

Hope it doesn't get axed

FreudianSlippers · 15-11-2011 1:02am

They'd be a bit silly not to bring it up to syndication numbers though, wouldn't they?

amacachi · 15-11-2011 1:03am

Richard Dower wrote: »

I TOLD YOU SO!!

In that "thread" you started which is more like a blog post you said you did it to show you actually watch the shows you comment on. Community wasn't in the list funnily enough.

phasers · 15-11-2011 1:04am

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

They'd be a bit silly not to bring it up to syndication numbers though, wouldn't they?

apparently since it's a Sony show it has a good chance of getting to syndication, if their track record is anything to go by.

Richard Dower · 15-11-2011 1:06am

amacachi wrote: »

In that "thread" you started which is more like a blog post you said you did it to show you actually watch the shows you comment on. Community wasn't in the list funnily enough.

Based on this news...do you blame me?

amacachi · 15-11-2011 1:08am

Richard Dower wrote: »

Based on this news...do you blame me?

Well I would've thought it would be more down to just how much the show went over your head based on the posts you were making during season 2. It was somewhat entertaining to begin with I have to admit.

NotorietyH · 15-11-2011 1:15am

Richard Dower wrote: »

I TOLD YOU SO!!

Takes a special kind of ass to take joy in other people losing something they enjoy.

Richard Dower · 15-11-2011 1:17am

NotorietyH wrote: »

Takes a special kind of ass to take joy in other people losing something they enjoy.

I'm just reading the numbers, Community fans have always been guilty of "head-up-there-ass" when it comes to the show imo.

phasers · 15-11-2011 1:18am

oh just shut up Richard.

amacachi · 15-11-2011 1:24am

I think it's more a case of wanting to watch and discuss a show rather than the numbers. You're like someone who keeps sports statistics without watching the sport. It's boring and annoying as hell. It's amazing really, you've been baiting for a good 18 months at this stage, I suppose being right in the end means that it's fine though.

NotorietyH · 15-11-2011 1:25am

Richard Dower wrote: »

I'm just reading the numbers, Community fans have always been guilty of "head-up-there-ass" when it comes to the show imo.

No we just enjoy a television show that you don't. You can not like a show fine, but coming in gloating when it gets cancelled or pushed when it would make absolutely no difference to you wheter it stayed on the air or not is just downright pathetic. Just because you watch a load of TV and read a few ratings websites doesn't make you an expert. The only head-arse interface I see around here is firmly on your side.

Seren_ · 15-11-2011 1:48am

Is it off air immediately? Or from January?

NBC are the worst!

nkay1985 · 15-11-2011 2:07am

Richard Dower wrote: »

Based on this news...do you blame me?

Jesus, if I ever start to equate ratings with quality, I want someone to shoot me.

amacachi · 15-11-2011 2:13am

nkay1985 wrote: »

Jesus, if I ever start to equate ratings with quality, I want someone to shoot me.

Richard's way ahead, he likes 2 and a Half Men.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-11-2011 2:35am

Funnily enough, I was let go from my job today, which I was completely fine with, but Community being pulled from the schedule??? Someone up there is taking the piss!

amacachi · 15-11-2011 2:42am

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Funnily enough, I was let go from my job today, which I was completely fine with, but Community being pulled from the schedule??? Someone up there is taking the piss!

Aye, I'm worried about being alone tonight.

nkay1985 · 15-11-2011 2:50am

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Funnily enough, I was let go from my job today, which I was completely fine with, but Community being pulled from the schedule??? Someone up there is taking the piss!

Sorry to hear that man but at least you have your priorities right.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-11-2011 2:58am

nkay1985 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that man but at least you have your priorities right.

Was planning to pack it in anyway - would've been nice to have something else lined up, but thems the breaks... I'm sure it was meant to be.

Damn straight I've got my priorites right... "Live, Breathe & Eat Community"... That's my life mantra...

FreudianSlippers · 15-11-2011 9:17am

FreudianSlippers · 15-11-2011 9:21am

There is news that all 22 episodes will be shot/aired this season.
That puts it at 71 episodes, so likely Sony will want to hit the 88ish episodes needed for syndication to be viable.

I don't think that this is the end of the world for Community and perhaps putting a clonker of a show like Whitney in will show NBC that Community has potential.

EDIT: Not that I'm saying it has a chance to live on NBC - but we can hope that another network would take interest.

ixoy · 15-11-2011 9:40am

phasers wrote: »

oh just shut up Richard.

+ 1,343,231. I'm sick of the gloating "I told you so" when shows get into trouble due to ratings. We had the same sh*t on the "Stargate" forum.

We know the show was in trouble - let us enjoy it instead of the equivalent of a little child hopping from foot to foot, a big smirk on its face going "nah nah nah I told you so nah nah nah nah".

A show like this, much like "Arrested Development", is clearly wasted on a general audience. Once again proving ratings have nothing to do with quality.

Mr E · 15-11-2011 9:49am

Feature request for vBulletin developers - ability to ban from individual threads.

stormcloud · 15-11-2011 9:58am

Never mind the unjust cancellation of Firefly.

Now I know how my death is going to be staged.

Aldebaran · 15-11-2011 10:40am

Awful news, I feel like I've just been kick-punched.

Seren_ · 15-11-2011 10:54am

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

There is news that all 22 episodes will be shot/aired this season.
That puts it at 71 episodes, so likely Sony will want to hit the 88ish episodes needed for syndication to be viable.

I don't think that this is the end of the world for Community and perhaps putting a clonker of a show like Whitney in will show NBC that Community has potential.

EDIT: Not that I'm saying it has a chance to live on NBC - but we can hope that another network would take interest.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Dan Harmon has said if it's cancelled by NBC, that's the end of the show, it won't be offered to other networks/cable. Can't find a link to back that up though

gazzer · 15-11-2011 11:41am

Richard Dower wrote: »

I TOLD YOU SO!!

Do you have to be so bloody childish :rolleyes:

phasers · 15-11-2011 12:36pm

Let the gifs commence?

wes · 15-11-2011 12:47pm

Damnit this is bad news, but if it is cancelled at least they have time to give it a proper ending, as I am sure they must be thinking this may very well be the last season.

Would be nice to get one more, but its unlikely I think.

heebusjeebus · 15-11-2011 1:24pm

Might not be as bad as we fear..

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/nbcs-mid-season-schedule-benches-community-kills-prime-suspect-brings-back-30-rock

"Community" is a mess ratings-wise, but it's one of NBC's few shows that still draws largely unabashed love from critics (and from its shrinking but passionate group of fans). Pulling it off the schedule temporarily given the ratings is understandable; pulling it off the schedule while leaving "Whitney" on is not.

"Community" isn't canceled. There will still be a bunch of episodes to air for the rest of this season, and while I try to look at the show as living on borrowed time - it's somewhat miraculous we'll be getting around 70 episodes, mimimum, of such an idiosyncratic, brilliant comedy - given the way NBC's fortunes have gone lately, I can easily see the new product failing so utterly that NBC pulls a "Chuck" and decides to stick with a known, albeit small, audience for a beloved show. (It also may help that "Community" is produced by Sony, which jumped through hoops to get FOX to keep making "Til Death" episodes for the syndication money a few years back.)

DOC09UNAM · 15-11-2011 2:50pm

First time I've looked in this thread,

I was happier not knowing.

FreudianSlippers · 15-11-2011 2:54pm

Your Text Here wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Dan Harmon has said if it's cancelled by NBC, that's the end of the show, it won't be offered to other networks/cable. Can't find a link to back that up though

That's a shame, Sony has a very good relationship with ABC and I'm sure they'd love to snag a show like Community for their line-up.

120_Minutes · 15-11-2011 6:04pm

"Do you want to live in a world where Whitney remains on NBC’s schedule but Community doesn’t?"

No, no I do not.

phasers · 15-11-2011 6:14pm

I blame Whitney Cummings for this. But then again I blame her for everything.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-11-2011 6:52pm

"Troy and Abed on Hiatus"...

phasers · 15-11-2011 8:41pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLmMDbpUjs

The noise Abed makes here is exactly what I did when I heard the news last night.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-11-2011 8:55pm

phasers wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLmMDbpUjs

The noise Abed makes here is exactly what I did when I heard the news last night.

120_Minutes · 15-11-2011 9:33pm

Just goes to show, for a comedy to be successful, it has to appeal to Richard ..the lowest common denominator.

The ratings measurement is an archaic way of gauging popularity. It's an outdated dinosaur. Utter utter ****e like two and a half men gets 10's of millions of viewers weekly and all it has are fart jokes and eye candy.

If I want eye candy i watch porn, or read nuts. If I want comedy.....I now have to watch *shudder* Whitney....according to NBC.

It's like arrested development all over again.

Conor108 · 15-11-2011 9:44pm

NBC Britta'd the schedule

SirDelboy18 · 16-11-2011 1:53am

That is truly sickening news. Its so frustrating that NBC mismanage the bulk of their shows. Then you have pathetic comedies such as 2 and a half lumps of complete ****e which somehow still remain on the air.

It is a better product IMO than the current 4 Thursday comedies, and I say that watching 3 of them ( 30 Rock, The Office, Up All Night ).

Its like a part of me is dying.

Richard Dower · 16-11-2011 1:57am

Mr E wrote: »

Feature request for vBulletin developers - ability to ban from individual threads.

Great idea acrually!

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