'Community' and 'Whitney': Is NBC bringing them back?
This week NBC brought good news for fans of their new shows, when they to , and . But now the network has bad news for fans of a couple returning comedy series.
Today the peacock network announced that they would be delaying the season premieres of both and from their original scheduled air date of October 19th, and did not offer alternate return dates.
听has a statement from NBC saying:
Given the success we鈥檝e had for the past four weeks 鈥� including winning the first week of the season in [the] A18-49 [demographic] 鈥� we鈥檝e 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 鈥楥ommunity鈥� and 鈥榃hitney鈥� 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 鈥� 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 鈥榃hitney鈥� and 鈥楥ommunity.鈥�
Now that end part does sound a bit suspicious 鈥� considering the already shortened 4th season of Community and its seemingly inevitable cancellation 鈥� but this might also be good news. Both comedies had been moved to Fridays, which doesn鈥檛 usually work out for shows (Fringe being the most recent exception to the rule). However, this statement seems to indicate that if schedule changes need to be made, likely with low-rated comedies like Animal Practice and Guys with Kids, these two shows could take their place on Wednesdays.
Either way, it鈥檚 sad news that the new semester of Community 鈥� and the second season of Whitney 鈥� won鈥檛 be coming as soon as fans expected.
听However, there鈥檚 good news for Community, as also has word that Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street) will guest star in season 4. Larson will appear in the seventh episode of the season, where Dean Pelton is holding a 鈥淪adie Hawkins鈥� dance at school. However, details on her character are currently being kept secret. Could she cause a love triangle between any of our would-be study group romances? We鈥檒l have to wait and see.
Ethan Anderton blogs at .
