Six seasons and a movie? Knock it off already Community.
TV series Community debuted in 2009. It inexplicably ran five seasons on NBC and was picked up for a fifth by Yahoo! Screen for a final run of episodes in 2015. By the time we reached season five, the show had lost multiple cast members with Chevy Chase, Donald Glover, and Jim Rash had left the show, with Yvette Nicole Brown still around for a few episodes in a recurring capacity.
The show met its jokey mantra of doing “six seasons and a movie” after barely eeking its way to fulfil its six season promise.
It has been eleven years now since the show finished up. And we’re still hearing from producers and cast members about making a Community movie.
Checking in with Six Seasons & a Podcast, EP Steve Levy had more fuel to add to the optimism. First up, Levy shared that he's been "having conversations about the Community movie" on a pretty regular basis now, adding that he recently joined Harmon, Guest, and McHale for dinner, where the four updated each other on where things stood. "We're still producing it as best as we can; it's just a slow process," Levy explained.
Isn’t it time to let this one go? How many community college degrees could people have earned in the time since this show has been off the air? It was already stretching common sense seeing these characters doing a two-year degree stretched out over six years.
I’d expect top see an Animal Control movie hit six seasons and a movie before Community ever happens.
With a TV premise, especially with sitcoms, we need to suspend some reality to maintain a premise. I can buy that the barflys at Cheers are still hanging out together, but it is harder to believe that most workplace comedies don’t have a greater turnover of staff. Let alone one set in a college.
Six years of Community really means too many years of buying into paintballs and pillow fights. Let alone 17 years.
News Desk
Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of FX’s video game adaptation Far Cry. The series is from Noah Hawley and Rob Mac (who also stars). Read: Deadline
The Daytime Emmy Awards nominations have been announced. Read: Emmys
The WGA has also sued to stop the Paramount - Warner Bros Discovery merger on the grounds that it violates federal antitrust law and would cause specific harm to writers. Read: Variety
The BBC licence fee freak-out is real. The beeb reports a drop of 539,000 Brits paying the fee this year, which is up from 300,000 the year prior. Here in Australia we fund our ABC as part of our tax, which makes a whole lot more sense than this TV license nonsense. Read: The Guardian
Severance star Adam Scott has teamed up with two writers from the show to develop a series for Hulu based on Koren Shadmi’s graphic novel Shifter. Read: Deadline
Trailer Park
The Shards debuts on Hulu August 6. It’s Ryan
FX’s The Shards is a seductive drama series from executive producer Ryan Murphy, based on the acclaimed bestselling novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Set against the vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, the series follows a group of privileged high school seniors at an elite prep school as they navigate identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and the dangers lurking beneath the surface of American adolescence.
The Whisper Man debuts on Netflix August 28. It stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott.
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Alex North. When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as "The Whisper Man."
Mayday debuts on Apple TV Sept 4.
Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh team up in "Mayday," a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head.
Musafir Cafe debuts on Netflix July 24.
Chander feels an undeniable connection with Sudha. Years later, he builds a new life in the hills with Preeti, but memories of the past linger.
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