Yahoo Resurrects ‘Community’ For A Sixth Season
#SixSeasonsandaMovie isn’t yet a dead idea. NBC canceledDan Harmon’s showCommunityearlier this year, but it seemed like there was still a chance that it would end up with a new home. Talks with Hulu didn’t go anywhere, but Yahoo wants a show — and now Yahoo has the sixth (and last?) season of Community. The deal was announced today just hours before the cast’s contract collectively expires. More details of theCommunityYahoo deal are below.
Earlier, Dan Harmon tweeted something that was interpreted by some as a death for the show:
But now we have this:
Yahoo has made a deal with producer Sony Pictures Television to stream a 13-episode sixth season of the show. Harmon will return as showrunner, andtook a little swipe at NBC in his packaged statement about the Yahoo deal:
Vulturesuggests that the move to Yahoo won’t dramatically reduce the budget for this upcoming season. AndChris McKenna is in talks to return as exec producer.
And so the wild tale of Community continues — three solid seasons, followed by Harmon’s ouster, and the limp fourth season, then Harmon’s return for the fifth season. With this move, Community goes to a home with little experience running a show of this size, but which certainly has a long reach. Now we’ll see if any previously departed cast members return, and where talk of a movie goes.
Update:THRtalked to Sony Pictures Television president of programming and productionZack Van Amburg, who said the entire cast is returning, and explained, “We try so hard and have a pretty decent record now of saving and/or rescuing some of our favorite shows, whether it’sDamagesorUnforgettable.” He went on to say,
Finally, the exec joked “there’s no way we’re not making the movie now!” before going on to say,
I’d be lying if I told you that we have not had some very early and preliminary conversations that are very exciting about what a potential movie could be and who might direct it. It’s early but it’s completely in our thought process.
If the film happens, will it be a digital stream, or a theatrical release? That’s a question we can’t answer just yet.
