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NBC Is Close to Renewing 'Community,' Cancels 'Go On'

by | May 10th, 2013

NBC is close to working out a deal to renew Community for a fifth season, Vulture reports. While nothing's official yet, Vulture says the renewal is "all but a done deal" and "very close," expecting that the network will pick up the show for an order of at least 13 Chevy Chase-less episodes. The decision comes right after the show's season finale, which went up slightly in the ratings last night. The move is kind of an odd one considering that a lot of the show's fanbase hasn't enjoyed the series as much since the firing of showrunner Dan Harmon last year, but if people are watching it, [...]

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The Fourth Season of 'Community' Is Coming to Canadian TV November 9th January 11th Someday

by | October 30th, 2012

Still on hiatus at NBC, it looks like Community will be coming back on the air in Canada before we get new episodes in the States. Canadian TV station Citytv posted that the fourth season of Community will debut on Friday, November 9th. This doesn't exactly bode well for Community's future at NBC, given that the show's audience is a bunch of technology-crazy youngsters who torrent it in large numbers to begin with. If NBC doesn't schedule the new season before November 9th, Community could have a whole new ratings problem on its hands with hardcore fans who have been deprived of their beloved show for six months [...]

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Will NBC Be the First Broadcast Network to Fall?

by | February 8th, 2013

"Five or ten years from now, there's a good chance we'll recognize NBC as the Peacock in the coal mine, the first one to fall as the broadcast era came to a close — or, at least, morphed into something far different than what we've known for the past 60 years."

- from a Vulture piece about NBC's abysmally-rated 2012-2013 brodcast season, entitled "Has NBC Passed the Point of No Return?"

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Fox Trims Episode Order for Midseason Sitcom 'The Goodwin Games'

by | November 2nd, 2012

Fox has just cut the episode order for its upcoming midseason comedy The Goodwin Games in half, TV Line reports. The network had originally asked for 13 episodes of the show, a sitcom about a trio of siblings competing to win their recently-deceased father's multi-million dollar inheritance, but sliced that number down to 7 today. Goodwin Games, Fox's only sitcom lined up for midseason, comes from the creators of How I Met Your Mother and stars Scott Foley, Becky Newton, and T.J. Miller, with up-and-coming stand-up Jerrod Carmichael recurring. According to TV Line's source, the cutback was made because Fox doesn't have enough space on the schedule, not [...]

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