Okay so you know how NBC moved
Community to Friday? And fired Dan Harmon? Yeah, that wasn't quite enough for them. Now they've moved the season 4 premiere to
some future date that hasn't been decided yet which is exactly what you do if you want to kill a show:
Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning
the first week of the season in A18-49 – we’ve decided to continue to
concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are
scheduled Monday through Wednesday and have therefore decided to hold Community and Whitney
from their previously announced premieres of October 19th. Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time,
we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week — plus we will
have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule
changes on those nights. When we have a better idea of viewing patterns
in the next few weeks, we will announce new season premieres of Whitney and Community.
Not good, not good at all.
And judging from this
Q & A with the new writers, there's no reason to think things'll get any better:
Q. Were there any initial conversations with Sony or NBC about what they expected from you on the show?
A. Guarascio A
little bit. Mostly, it was thank you for doing this. When we started to
pitch our stories, they had that first [reaction]: Well, maybe now that
we’re in a new place, it could it be more like this instead of that. So
we did have to dig in a little bit and say, look, we didn’t come on to
make that into this. We came on to keep doing this. We did have to draw a
couple lines in the sand.
