Community, the tv show

uh yeah if S5 finished on a high note, I could live with this

(Don't worry, they'll be back on some streaming thing.)

i'm honestly kinda fine with it ending. liked season 5 fine but I never felt this needed to be a long-tenured series. if anything I'd have been happier if 4 never happened and 5 replaced 4 and it had more of a definitive end.

I said this above and I stand by it - had S5 been a normal length season, with a bit more light and shade, and character development between the novelty episodes, it would have been fine. But it felt rushed - cf the David Cross character in the subpar D&D episode - and suffered as a result.

super-nice of them to time this leak for the return of Harmontown

stevie otm

Harmontown. Dan is not nearly as upset by the news as you'd think he'd be.

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Jeff is taller and skinnier than you'd expect.

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I proved empirically than I am taller than Dan Harmon.

Oh yeah, and this happened:

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Made the whole weekend festival worth it. He'll happily talk to anybody afterwards about Joseph Campbell, the Dead Alewives, etc.

Dan is not nearly as upset by the news as you'd think he'd be.

I think he's relived, tbh. The show will forever hang around his neck like a ship's anchor.

great photos kingfish!! lucky dog!

http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/85510995369/more-than-a-tweet

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This may nag at me forever.

the meteor got them too

I do not watch Girls, but I might watch these specific episodes: http://www.avclub.com/article/gillian-jacobs-joins-season-four-girls-204914

this news confirms for me that i dislike girls more than i like gillian jacobs

haha

great moments in sentences being typed out without the titles of things being capitalized

capitalization fascist

lol mordy

6th season on Hulu?

and a movie (on vimeo plus or something)

do not want

i love community but sometimes a show can just be cancelled surely

Yeah, otm. Even if everyone's on board and Glover comes back, I can't see getting to excited about this. I loved the show, and I'm ok with it being over.

*too

bring glover back and i'm down. otherwise, just let it die. it's entering galactica 80 zone now.

Community season 6 will be the adventures of Troy and Levar Burton on their world cruise

I actually WOULD watch that.

take a look

it's in a book

a pair of reading rainBROS

I feel like Harmon in that I'm cool with it ending but i certainly won't be the person that keeps me from watching s6.

I present this as a point of information.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/community-returning-sixth-season-yahoo-715857

yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

for the life of me i cannot figure what the game plan is at yahoo but hey if you're gonna burn money either way i approve of this effort

did the Arrested Development thing work out well for Netflix? it seems like reviving a cult comedy is a decent idea for a streaming service but creating dramas that people will want to binge watch ended up being far more beneficial to them. if nothing else it beats Amazon Prime's strategy of creating new half hour comedies that nobody gives a damn about enough to even form a cult around.

i don't think "yahoo screen" a netflix/amazon prime type deal in the first place

smart in that i now know there is something called yahoo screen

it's basically a wanna-be youtube so this will be ad revenue-based not subscriber

oh wait they removed the ability to upload, so i guess it's a wanna-be hulu only with no network content?

https://screen.yahoo.com/

the future is now

"ugh, i hate going to hulu to watch snl clips and going to youtube to watch vevo shit! there HAS to be a better way!"

"now there is!"

Yahoo did the three seasons of Burning Love, so this is probably a good fit. On the other hand, I forgot they existed since they geoblocked Burning Love halfway through the first season and wouldn't put it on the Australian version.

yeah from what i can tell it's not a subscription service. arrested development worked in that it got a ton of attention and subscribers for netflix. opinion is mixed on how well it worked creatively (i'm pro, esp the last half, but i think it's definitely fair to say there was more buzz beforehand than afterward) and who knows on the data but netflix doesn't seem to be in a huge hurry to due a half hour comedy while they have no problem renewing lillehammer or spawning new seasons of the killing. comedies were pretty big to hulu (initially at least) so who knows but it does seem like dramas have an edge in streaming like they do on network tv. cable seems more mixed - sunny is arguably the biggest hit fx has had and girls probably does more for hbo's brand than any show other than game of thrones; it's weird cuz yeah house of cards got huge attention and buzz for netflix and it has standard prestige drama dressings but it was kind of astroturfed success. orange is the new black is the organic hit and i'm not sure exactly what lessons can be learned from it.

i misspelled 'do'

I wonder if I'll ever watch the fifth season

It was okay-to-great while it was happening, but I barely remember any of it now except for when Dean Pelton dressed up like a Payday bar and rapped in the study room—which was probably the funniest scene in the history of the show.

Yahoo did the three seasons of Burning Love, so this is probably a good fit. On the other hand, I forgot they existed since they geoblocked Burning Love halfway through the first season and wouldn't put it on the Australian version.

― boney tassel (sic), Monday, June 30, 2014 6:38 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always vaguely knew that Burning Love was on the internet somewhere before it aired on E! but i had no idea where. good to know, maybe this means that some months after the new Community episodes go online they'll put them on after The Soup as part of a Joel McHale power hour.

there was something autumnal about season 5, like they'd accepted their lot as a sweet little cult show. can't imagine the yahoo season will be any different.

i doubt they'll truly go insane over the relative freedom of the net cuz i assume sony still wants to air those episodes in syndication

i think the only thing that kept them from turning outright into an Adult Swim-style revolving door of pop culture pastiches was some sense of fidelity to the characters and the 23-minute sitcom formula. i don't get the sense that they'd change a lot with 'more freedom,' i just hope that the inevitably smaller budget with Yahoo is spread over fewer episodes so it doesn't suddenly look way cheaper or completely scale back on the playful special effects stuff.

Community is about 20 minutes, not 23, and they're doing the same number of episodes as S5.