Good news/bad news day for Community today:
http://tvline.com/2012/10/08/communi...dates-changed/
Good news: It won't be airing in the death slot of Fridays this fall.
Bad news: It won't be returning next week.
NBC has pulled Community and Whitney from their lineup for the immediate future.
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“Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in [the] A18-49 [demographic] – 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,” the network said in a statement. “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.”
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Speculation is that unless their rating change significantly in the next couple of weeks, Animal Practice and Guys with Kids will get pulled from the schedule and Whitney and Community will either replace them directly, or they'll return to a re-jiggered schedule for November sweeps.
I could see them moving Up All Night back to Wednesdays with Whitney, like they were last season, and putting Community back on Thursdays.