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COMMUNITY Season 6 OKAY

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SAUSAGEMAN said:
Oh Community is still cancelled okay.
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Community lives! Internet giant Yahoo, which made it clear last spring that it wanted to jump into the same original programming waters as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, has struck a deal with producer Sony Pictures Television to stream a 13-episode, sixth, and almost certainly final season of the Dan Harmon comedy. And yes, Harmon will be back as showrunner. "I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo,” Harmon said in a release announcing the deal. “I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online. I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, Big Bang Theory. Look out, Bang Bus!" Community was canceled by NBC in May, but lead production studio Sony Pictures Television has been working relentlessly to find a new home for the show ever since. The studio engaged in serious conversations with Hulu about a deal, with the internet streamer seriously interested in acquiring exclusive rights to season six (it already syndicates past seasons). The two sides couldn’t make the economics work, however, people familiar with the discussions said. By contrast, Yahoo, eager to land a show with a built-in audience and flush with cash, didn’t have a problem figuring out the financial details. Indeed, Vulture hears the production budget for Community’s sixth season will not be dramatically different than the most recent NBC season of the show.
In addition to Harmon returning as showrunner, Community vet Chris McKenna is also in talks to return as exec producer and Harmon's top lieutenant. And while the six seasons part of #SixSeasonsAndAMovie has come true, there’s nothing official — yet— about the feature film part. Industry insiders, however, say there have been discussions about how that might still happen, too. NBCUniversal-owned Universal Televison, meanwhile, blessed Sony's talks with Yahoo and will remain as a co-producer on the show (though Sony, as it always has, will remain lead studio in day-to-day production of the show.)
The Yahoo deal represents an amazing reprieve for Community, which many Hollywood types considered to be well and truly dead after NBC's axing and after various cable nets passed on the show. But Sony execs, as they have in the past with many shows on their roster, continued to explore all options to keep the show alive. (The studio has developed something of a rep for not accepting network cancellations as final verdicts, having previously resurrected Damages, Rules of Engagement and Unforgettable. Sony is now hoping to secure a second season of NBC's The Night Shift, which had been assumed to be a summer burn-off but has so far performed well for the Peacock.) Timing also worked to Sony's benefit, since Community's free agency happened around the same time as Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer's plan to jump into first-run programming. The Internet giant wants to find new ways to attract advertisers beyond print content and short-form web series. And while outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Variety have reported Yahoo has been talking to agents about finding new material their clients might produce for Yahoo, picking up Community will let Yahoo quickly get into the first-run, full-length series game.
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Community Moving to Yahoo for 6th Season -- Vulture
 
Yup looks like it's for real. It will probably only go one season and then Yahoo will realize they know nothing about business and forgot to figure out how to make money off the deal. Then Dan Harmon will have to go begging again to get the movie made, BECAUSE FULFILLING THE PROPHETIC HASHTAG IS ALL THAT IS IMPORTANT HERE!

‘Community’ Revived To Air On Yahoo In Fall With 13 Episodes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 30, 2014 @ 2:47pm PDTTags: Community, Sony Pictures TV, Yahoo

Community has done it, beating the odds and overcoming a cancellation to score a sixth-season order. After a couple of weeks of negotiations, series producer Sony Pictures TV has closed a deal with Yahoo for 13 new episodes to air this fall on Yahoo Screen. Talks went down to the wire as the options on the cast were set to expire today. Ever since NBC canceled Community last month, there had been interest from multiple outlets in continuing the cult comedy. I hear the list of possible suitors also included rebranded cable network Esquire; streaming service Hulu, which already has off-network rights to the series; and the Sony-owned Crackle.

Dan Harmon created Community and is returning as executive producer with Russ Krasnoff, Gary Foster and Chris McKenna. “I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo,” Harmon said in the announcement of the deal. “I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online. I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, Big Bang Theory. Look out, Bang Bus!”

With its devoted following by a core group of passionate fans, Community is the type of show digital platforms crave. Complicating the series’ options was the fact that it has a digital syndication deal in place with Hulu, in addition to a cable off-network pact with Comedy Central.

“The fans spoke and we listened. Thanks to Yahoo, and the amazing team that makes Community great, we’ve avoided the Darkest Timeline yet again and plan to deliver a fantastic season,” said Zack Van Amburg, president of programming and production at SPT. Adds Jamie Erlicht, president of programming and production: “You can’t get to six seasons and a movie without a 6th season. Yahoo is the perfect home for the continuation of this journey.”

What wasn’t immediately clear was how Yahoo plans to make money from continuing the cult show online. Reviving Arrested Development for another season, and bankrolling award-winning originals such as House Of Cards and Orange Is The New Black helped cement Netflix as a go-to place for all kinds of shows. Amazon followed a similar if not quite so high-profile path as it has built up its Amazon Prime offerings. In both cases, the companies used the owned content to drive subscriptions, where they make their real money. Yahoo has also invested in original content, signing deals with Katie Couric and former New York Times tech columnist David Pogue to create original programming that could draw in regular viewers. But unlike Netflix and Amazon, Yahoo has been betting on advertising to generate most of the revenues for its programming of all kinds.

“Yahoo is all about connecting the best creators to the audiences who love their work,” said Kathy Savitt, CMO of Yahoo. Community has an incredibly passionate and loyal fan base who have fought hard to keep this amazing show alive. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Dan, [star] Joel [McHale], and the entire cast, as well as Sony, to deliver a great Season 6.”

Sony TV’s efforts to revive Community had the blessing of Harmon, who confessed on his blog that he had warmed to the possibility of continuing the show elsewhere, changing his stance on finding a new home from “eh” when Sony TV called him with the news of the series’ cancellation by NBC to “sure, let’s talk” two days later. Said Harmon, “I’m not going to be the guy that re-cancels cancelled Community.”

The deal for Community extends Sony TV’s strong track record in bringing back cancelled series. The studio previously brokered a deal to move acclaimed drama Damages to DirecTV after it was cancelled by FX, and found a way to bring back on their original networks cancelled series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime and Unforgettable on CBS. All three series have gone to air multiple seasons post-cancellation.
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Yay! Now they can finally give it a proper ending. Until the TV movie, which will be an hour and a half long Jeff speech.
 
Saying the show will appear on Yahoo! to me is like saying the show will air on CompuServe.

Yahoo seems like such a dated internet brand -- I guess they live off ad clicks on their news and webmail pages.
 
Will they get Troy back?

Anyway, I'm chuffed to bits. I'm a huge Community fan and it can easily go for a sixth season without turning to shit. A movie will happen as well, by hook or crook. It will probably end up being kick-started similar to how Veronica Mars was.
 
I think Dong Lover said he's open to appearing again but I guess he won't be a regular. I don't think Mike from Breaking Bad will be in season six either.
 
YAHOOOOOOOO!! I clicked on a news article today, maybe that will pay for an episode!
 
Nothing trumps an ailing father.

Sounds like she can still pop up here and there, and if it goes another season, I bet she'll be back. Because The Odd Couple remake is certain to fail. It always does.
 
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