Six seasons and a movie? Not so far-fetched after all!
NBC has renewed death-defying cult fave Community for a fifth season, TVLine has confirmed.
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No exact word on episode count, but 13 is the number being bandied about (that would put it within striking distance of syndication-friendly 100.)
TVLine’s Renewal Scorecard has been updated.
Aaaaaand cue the “Six seasons and a movie!” comments.
It would need it to reach 100 episodes, so yeah. Six seasons and a movie.
Hahaha…you right…i love this cute doll with interesting story… :)
so creative…i like this show
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Couldn’t have put it better myself :D.
Wow. I am pleasantly surprised by this news. Even if it is only for 13 episodes again, hey, better than nothing! Hopefully any kinks that needed to be worked out with the new showrunners will be sorted by then (though I personally rather liked this last season overall), and we’ll have another great run of episodes.
My sentiments exactly. NBC, for once you are streets ahead!
But not streets ahead, no Pierce… Right?
sorry to be pedantic but you are missing one cool, its “cool. cool, cool, cool”.
anyway im glad to see this, ive found this season to be quite decent and now the “hurr durr no harmon” people cant blame the show ending on him leaving.
Yeah, he left on a high note.
Woo!
I don’t watch but this should make a lot of TVline readers happy so I’m happy! :)
I like comments like this :). I agree with you, it’s nice when fans get what they want.
what an incredibly nice comment. why arent there more people like you on the internet?
I’m extremely happy!!
Me too, but I will miss Go On- it was just as smart, and had a lot of heart.
Sony TV Studios are the masters of negotiating the seemingly impossible renewal.
They better figure something out for Happy Endings!
I would be so much happier with a Happy Endings renewal. Community is not what it used to be. I would’ve actually preferred Go On over Community at this point.
Absolutely agree that GO ON should have stayed and Community should have gone. Community hasn’t made me laugh in ages. It seems that they just started phoning it in mid-last season copying story lines from wherever they can think to do so. GO ON is super funny, has a great ensemble that can actually act (yeah Gillian calling you out on your acting abilities). Really just a shame that GO ON couldn’t GO ON.!!!!
Yes! best news I’ve heard all day.
I REALLY didn’t expect this, glad they have a chance to make up for that… less than stellar… finale.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YIPPEE!! I’m doing a happy dance!
Deanlightful!
This. ROFL
Yes!
This and Parks will be the ONLY thing I watch on NBC after those morons canceled GO ON. Community should be picked up for a full count. NBC will canceled most of those stupid shows after 2 weeks.
I’m with you, but I’ll add Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (which next year will be The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon– here’s hoping that lasts) & the occasional SNL episode.
You should be happy they cancelled Go On and a bunch of their other comedies. It means that their little experiment to create comedies that appeal to a broad audience (much like CBS does with Big Bang, 2.5 men, etc) and stop supporting comedies that are constantly praised by critics has so far failed.
Why would he be happy they cancelled Goon after calling NBC “morons” for cancelling it? Can you read? Are you actually trying to tell someone they shouldn’t have liked a show? Because you think you know better? Really? Community got marginally better ratings in a worse time slot. It’s a shame, since Community this season really wasn’t Community anymore. Really hope next season is better, but my expectations have gone from the floor to the basement.
I squealed!
YESSSSSSS!!!!!
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Good on Sony for bargaining with NBC for “The Blacklist”
NBC officially has no idea what the heck they’re doing. They cancel Go On but renew THIS?!?!?!?!?!?! Wow. I give up. I’m only watching NBC for Sunday Night Football from now on.
A football fan makes a dumb comment? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!
I’m sorry NBC canceled a show you like. Perhaps instead of unnecessarily insulting Community fans with your dislike of the show, you should be tweeting your complaints to @NBC on Twitter. Or start a show petition even.
Ummm. He did not insult the fans. He insulted the show. Sorry, but that is not the same thing. You can hate a show but that does not mean you hate the fans.
It is insulting to spit out useless negativity towards something in an area of people that are predominantly supporters of said thing. So yes, he did insult them.
Oh for goodness sakes I never said anything about the fans (although you just proved it doesn’t take much to insult them)
I didn’t attempt to insult anyone & if you take my original post as a personal insult, then it just shows that you are a weak & overly sensitive person who has no social life whatsoever & probably also watched Happy Endings in addition to Community to fill the void left behind by having no friends & by having no taste in REAL television.
Now THAT’S an insult ;)
Bazinga
That is the longest sentence I’ve ever read
Community had the edge over Go On after Go On plummeted in ratings (from losing The Voice as a lead in). Go On had ratings lower than Community after the change.
Oh, not to mention Community has four seasons over Go On. learn2ratings CJS.
This is better than Go On.
I’m completely shocked but very excited!
Now, they’ve given this show so many chances, they couldn’t allow Go On another shot? I know it’s not the absolute best show but I’m not convinced any of the comedies they’re picking up will be better.
It’s because this show is streets ahead…
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SIXSEASONSANDAMOVIE. It might be a cliche at this point, or a dream, but I don’t care. All I care is that there’s MORE COMMUNITY.
I will trade this to get GO ON back.
Please take your whining elsewhere. Perhaps complain to @NBC on Twitter and not here. Sorry for your loss, but us Community fans are happy (and maybe lucky even) to have another season of this show. And Matthew Perry will get another show. He’s good at that.
Actually, not all of us Community fans are happy. Some of us think that this past season was a horrible, horrible joke and that it’s quickly ruining what would have been remembered as a classic before Dan Harmon left.
Then stop watching. But plenty of us still like the show and are excited about it getting renewed. Just because YOU don’t like it doesn’t mean it needs to be canceled.
Yeah, obviously NOTHING has to get cancelled. Every show has its fans, but you can’t tell me it wouldn’t hurt if something like, say, Whitney got renewed while one of your favorite shows was cancelled. If Community was cancelled, you can bet anything that fans would be here and on every NBC show renewal article talking about how unfair it is that X,Y, and Z got renewed.
I know I’m in the minority on this one, but I thought this was a stronger season than season 3 for the most part (though Season 3 had some outright gems… like the “flashbacks” episode, Journey to the Center of Hawthorne, and the timeline one). Definitely could have benefitted from a full order though, and making the “Dark Timeline” finale all in Jeff’s head felt like a bit of a safety move from the new team, IMO. Dan Harmon would have made that a real paintball event, spaced over 2 episodes, I bet. Can you imagine how awesome a fourth season cliffhanger would have been if the study group ended up betrayed by Pierce and trapped in the Darkest Timeline world after losing a game of international paintball instigated by both timelines’ versions of Dean Spreck? Maybe it’s just me, but it would have been a good opportunity to prove that Community was retaining it’s “quirkiness” without Harmon.
I mean interdimensional, not international.
That sound like an amazing episode. :o
I’d honestly rather trade Parenthood to have Go On back on. Community fans are extremely devout, whereas Parenthood fans aren’t nearly as passionate & probably wouldn’t care.
Why would NBC cancel a 10pm 1 hr drama, which improved it’s ratings, to air a 30 min comedy that tanked as soon as it lost The Voice lead in?
I am a devoted and passionate Parenthood fan, as well as a Community fan. You must not be a Parenthood fan or you’d know how much love it has and what a sigh of relief went out when it was renewed. Mike Ausiello himself could tell you how much of a fanbase the show has after hosting the forum they did.
NBC, congratulations on not britta’ing that! : D
Actually, I think this qualifies as the other version of “Britta-ing it”!
I will now do the dance of joy.
still pissed about Go On, but extremely excited for this news!
Best news of the day! Happy dance.
Took long enough.
STREETS AHEAD!
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Leonard, why are you violating The Roommate Agreement?
*claps* awesome, both of you.
Shut up, Leonard.
Dean-tastic!!
Fantastic news! Now if only they could get Dan Harmon back…
Or at least the Russo brothers?
This makes sense because NBC probably didn’t want to sacrifice one of its new sitcoms by airing it opposite The Big Bang Theory.
Wait, Shield AND Community airing this fall?!?!?!
This IS the best way to start Summer Vacation!!
I’m not in summer vacation yet but these two pieces of news certainly make studying more bearable!!! I am so happy.
Yes. Put in the contract that Annie has to wear Evil Annie’s red dress in every ep!
Seconded
Thirded.
God, that dress was gorgeous, wasn’t it? I’d kill for an outfit like that.
Well duh.
NBC brittaed canceling it. Yay!
YAY! So happy! Calling it now… Jeff returns to Greendale as a teacher! Why else would they have him major in education?!
Oh. OH MY GOSH. I LOVE YOU FOR BRINGING THIS POSSIBILITY TO MY ATTENTION!
I was thinking the same thing. Now we just need to come up with a class for him. Intro to Texting?
Yay!!!
but they had worse ratings than Go On…? community is an absolute joke now. i’m so glad i stopped watching. saw a few episodes of season 3 and had to quit because they were trying too hard to have quirky~ episodes and abandoned all character development and storylines. the characters are complete jokes now.
We’re so glad you stopped watching, too! Now if only you would stop commenting on Community-related things!
i only commented once on this post but ty for your concern xoxo
Very happy about this one!
Community is the new Chuck when it comes to renewals this is great news
A year ago season 5 seemed like a unicorn. Who would have thought we’d be here today with season 5 renewal news? I’ve been trying to decide for awhile how I would feel about this since season 4 was a bit of a letdown, but I’m happy. I honestly am. Now that the new showrunners have done 13 episodes, now they can really get in a groove and do some amazing things with the show.
The finale was pretty terrible, and the show as a whole wasn’t as good as it was under Harmon, but I’m still happy about this.
No FREAKING way!! This is fantastic news! I was SO worried!!
Expecting 13 episodes, hoping for 16, praying for a full 22.
I thought I’d be happier about this, but I mostly just have mixed feelings.
Me too. It’s rather strange.
Yes! Hopefully that means more J/A progression!
#poppop
I like Community, used to love it, but all the behind-the-scenes jerking around NBC did really diminished from the current season. In general it just wasn’t as great as it used to be.
Can all the Community fans stop saying how they are hated, they made it 5 season, maybe more.
Next up: More Emmy nominations!
Noooo! Community is the stupidest show I’ve ever seen. I just don’t “get” it. Why won’t this dreck die already?
It survives just for you. :D
Just curious, if you consider Community dreck, what do you consider good? Whitney? Family Tools? Cop Rock?
This season sucked, but I’m still rooting for #sixseasonsandamovie