Dear NBC: Your unfairly maligned sitcom, that is beloved by audiences far larger and respected by critics far greater than some of your other shows currently airing, which you shelved indefinitely for its fourth season, is allegedly set to return to the airwaves on November 9th. Unfortunately, for American audiences the show is airing on [...]
Today was supposed to be the premiere of season four of Community, but, um, yeah, about that. Not going to happen thanks to NBC’s decision to shelve the sitcom until early 2013. The cast got together to film a humorous promo essentially sticking their middle fingers in the air towards NBC for that decision and [...]
I was really disappointed that NBC decided to not go ahead with their planned ‘Munsters’ reboot by Bryan Fuller, but I’m okay with the decision since the network will at least air the pilot as a TV special on Oct. 26. After watching this quick promo, it seems like a good decision. Fuller can do [...]
The central conceit of NBC’s Revolution is that electricity and electronic circuits stop working. Society collapses, militias are formed, and in the future pretty blonds who can wield a bow and arrow will save the United States. Foreign Policy imagines what would happen if such an event occurs in real life, through the prism of [...]
GQ Magazine sat down with just about everyone and anyone who helped make Cheers to ask them the secret to creating one of TV’s funniest and most endearing sitcoms of all-time.
Will Leitch takes the sane approach: There’s a good argument to be made that networks and corporations should pay utmost heed to what their diehard customers want, rather than just be blandly generalist. If you make your most loyal customers happy, they’ll stick with you during down periods, providing you a solid customer base. But [...]
Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC to Comcast: “Today we’re taking on a new name — NBCNews.com. While our name is changing, our commitment is not. In fact, in the weeks and months ahead, we’ll be bringing you more of what you love today, and NBCNews.com will stay true to its mandate of delivering the [...]
Someone on Reddit actually made the video game, Journey To the Center Of Hawkthorne, from the Community episode finale “Digital Estate Planning.” You can download the game and test it out yourself via this Reddit thread; the game is free, available for all operating systems, and being continuously updated with improvements. I’m not surprised this happened, but how quickly it happened [...]
Sony Pictures Television, which produces Community, announced that they are replacing Dan Harmon as the showrunner with David Guarascio and Moses Port. At the very least that duo most recently worked on ABC’s Happy Endings, which is really funny. Still, Harmon has confirmed he was fired. It makes me wonder if fans of Community got more than we bargained [...]
NBC has a new show coming out this fall from producer J.J. Abrams and director John Favreau about what happens 15 years after the entire world loses electricity. The premise for the show is cool, but doesn’t it just feel like this show is going to get cancelled after about five episodes? Maybe it’s that [...]
