In the AMA someone asked Harmon about a storyline he had wanted to do, but didn't get a chance. He mentioned that he wanted to bring in Richard Ayoade to play an Inspector Spacetime fan who befriends Abed online.
Ayoade directed the "My Dinner with Andre" episode of Community, but is best known for playing Moss on the British sitcom, The IT Crowd. Oddly enough, Ayoade reprised his role of Moss in the pilot for the US adaptation of The IT Crowd that NBC ordered in 2007. In that pilot, Joel McHale played the role of Roy, the other IT nerd, and it was produced by Moses Port and David Guarascio, who are the new show-runners of Community.
Community Premiere: Oct. 19, 8:30 p.m., NBC Showrunners: David Guarascio, Moses Port Stars: Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Ken Jeong, Jim Rash
What To Expect This Season: The season premiere offers up a Hunger Games parody, as Jeff partakes in a cutthroat competition to enroll in a class. Later, the study group will take a history class taught by a ''brash'' professor played by...Malcolm McDowell.
McHale says: ''[McDowell's character is] at Greendale because of some past transgressions, and he is just funny and really great. It's freakin' Malcolm McDowell! I was just like, 'There's Malcolm McDowell right there in front of me, and I'm acting with him! I mean, this is the guy that killed Captain Kirk!''' —Dan Snierson
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Technically, unless he is a "Nielson Family" he isn't.
Ratings are calculated by monitoring what a small group of households watch. Only houses that have the monitoring device installed (about 5,000 - 10,000 households in the US) are counted. Then those stats are projected for the whole population.
Thats why the system is horrible in this day and age.
Well thanks to all the talk of the show on this site, I started watching Community last weekend on Netflix.....And haven't really stopped. Awesome, awesome show. Ahbed as Batman killed me.
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Well thanks to all the talk of the show on this site, I started watching Community last weekend on Netflix.....And haven't really stopped. Awesome, awesome show. Ahbed as Batman killed me.
Here's some outtakes if you haven't seen them yet.
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Well thanks to all the talk of the show on this site, I started watching Community last weekend on Netflix.....And haven't really stopped. Awesome, awesome show. Ahbed as Batman killed me.
Keep watching, lets just say there may or may not be more Batman Abed.
Technically, unless he is a "Nielson Family" he isn't.
Ratings are calculated by monitoring what a small group of households watch. Only houses that have the monitoring device installed (about 5,000 - 10,000 households in the US) are counted. Then those stats are projected for the whole population.
Thats why the system is horrible in this day and age.
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So then how can tsn, CBC, rds, whoever say there were x million viewers of the Stanley cup, grey cup Olympics, etc? Canadian shows still have ratings, and Nielsen boxes don't exist here.
So then how can tsn, CBC, rds, whoever say there were x million viewers of the Stanley cup, grey cup Olympics, etc? Canadian shows still have ratings, and Nielsen boxes don't exist here.
But I don't think Canadian ratings will have much of an impact as to whether or not a show on an American network, catering to American advertisers will be considered successful of not.
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But I don't think Canadian ratings will have much of an impact as to whether or not a show on an American network, catering to American advertisers will be considered successful of not.
Wasn't insinuating that it would make a difference. I just didn't realize there was a similar Canadian version.
This has probably been discussed already ... but I've just discovered Community and this thread. AWESOME!
Anyway ... to save me wading through countless pages ... can someone explain to me this apparent rift between Harmon and Chevy Chase? Or the whole 'Chevy Chase maybe leaving' drama?
Thanks!
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This has probably been discussed already ... but I've just discovered Community and this thread. AWESOME!
Anyway ... to save me wading through countless pages ... can someone explain to me this apparent rift between Harmon and Chevy Chase? Or the whole 'Chevy Chase maybe leaving' drama?
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.”
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.
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Well at least it might return to a Thursday timeslot which would be awesome. NBC is a mess, which is so unfortunate because in my opinion, they've produced the best TV of any of the major networks. 30 rock, Chuck, The Office, Parks and Rec, Community all make up my favorite shows of the last 5 years. Sadly outside of the Office, for some reason each show gets killed in the ratings every week. The Nielsen ratings are such a joke thay networks still view them as a viable way to measure a shows success, and Americans have truly awful taste. Fox doesn't have a funny show on tv. ABC has Modern family and that's it. CBS might be the worst, as each one of their comedies is studio audience, broad, and the most formula driven sitcom crap.
