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Just one week after hearing that the October 19th season premieres of Whitney and Community on NBC had been delayed, one of these shows now has a official premiere date.

Today, NBC announced their first cancellation of the season by giving Animal Practice the axe after the ratings didn鈥檛 impress executives enough to keep it around. Whitney will air in the now vacant Wednesday time slot at 8pm starting on Wednesday, November 14th.

This isn鈥檛 immensely surprising as we previously predicted that a canceled show might allow for Whitney and/or Community to escape their dreaded Friday night time slots. After all, NBC did say, 鈥�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�鈥�

But we鈥檙e still not sure what this means for Community. Now the series 鈥� coming into a shortened 15-episode season 4 鈥� might be all by itself on Friday unless Guys with Kids, NBC鈥檚 other low-rated freshman comedy series, gets canceled, too.

Honestly, I think the best option would be to put Community on Tuesdays with Go On and toss The New Normal over to the Thursday night line-up when 30 Rock finishes its 15-episode final season. That means we鈥檇 have to wait a little bit longer for the return of Community, but it might be worth it so the show has a fighting chance at surviving.

Either way, this game NBC seems to be playing with Community fans isn鈥檛 good for the show as the average viewer doesn鈥檛 know what鈥檚 going on behind the scenes. If anything, this shows that NBC doesn鈥檛 care about Community, and I鈥檓 not sure they鈥檙e invested in the series lasting, even through a full season 4.

Ethan Anderton blogs at Screen Rant.