thomps: Is community not getting good ratings? It's one of the few network shows that I watch regularly...

It is not. It is a distant third behing the Big Bang Theory (which was moved to Thursdays to compete against it) and the X Factor.

I thing it may be time for some CHANGe at NBC!

This is why I don't watch network television

thomps: Is community not getting good ratings?

There are no "good ratings" anymore. Either you dominate your timeslot or you're gone.

It's one of the few network shows that I watch regularly...

Excuse me. I wasn't aware you bought advertising. Your opinion is irrelevant.

I saw that Whitney show and I can't figure out if it's a comedy show or a show that's a satire of a comedy show with an ironic laugh-track thrown in.

It's nothing but hack comedy that's not original. It's just not good. She's not likeable. She's not hot, and she's not funny.

AAAARGH.

NO.

After seeing this past episode I don't have an issue with this. I've been a fan since the premier but that last episode was just not funny at all.

Cancel community?

NOoooooO!!!

Maybe they should move the show to FX.

/then maybe alison brie and gillian jacobs get naked
//can they do that on fx?
///Best comedy since Scrubs, in my opinion
////Guess I'll just have to watch cougar town instead

I wonder how many more seasns Two and a Half Men continue to go.dletter: But, NBC has basically been content with being the 3rd or 4th place network on Thursday nights with the comedies the last few years.

At this point they are falling behind cable. I think there was a night in the alst few months where USA Network outdid NBC in ratings.

From what I saw, Community isn't even drawing 4 million people anymore. Whitney is actually beating it.

NBC's just following the cold, hard numbers here. Community got too far down on the league table and it's relegation time.

Whitney: On AFTER The Office. Changing the Channel is hard. People just keep watching.

Community, on too early, up against shiat reality singing show #4574456, and overly condescending show with a laugh track.

Switch em around and they might be on to something.

actually... 30 rock - parks and rec- office - community would be a good stretch.

A shame. Season 3 so far isn't quite as strong as the first 2 seasons, but it's still very good.

Ed Willy: I wonder how many more seasns Two and a Half Men continue to go.dletter: But, NBC has basically been content with being the 3rd or 4th place network on Thursday nights with the comedies the last few years.

At this point they are falling behind cable. I think there was a night in the alst few months where USA Network outdid NBC in ratings.

I'm surprised they haven't moved Psyche and Burn Notice over to NBC, it's better than most of the shows they have now.

As of most recent episodes:

Biggest Loser: 6.86 million (2.4 rating)
The Office: 5.96 million (3.0)
Prime Suspect: 4.86 million (1.1)
Up All Night: 4.79 million (1.8)
Whitney: 4.28 million (2.1)
Parks and Recreation: 3.66 million (1.8)
Community: 3.49 million (1.5)
Rock Center with Brian Williams: 3.46 million (1.0)

And that is why Whitney lives while Community dies. And why you should start fretting over Parks and Recreation.

My wife and I really enjoy Community. One of our favorites.

Never seen Whitney. Fark you if you're one of those watching it.

Heres hoping they get to make a couple super bitter "anti network" episodes like the second half of the last season of arrested development.

Gosling: As of most recent episodes:

Biggest Loser: 6.86 million (2.4 rating)
The Office: 5.96 million (3.0)
Prime Suspect: 4.86 million (1.1)
Up All Night: 4.79 million (1.8)
Whitney: 4.28 million (2.1)
Parks and Recreation: 3.66 million (1.8)
Community: 3.49 million (1.5)
Rock Center with Brian Williams: 3.46 million (1.0)

And that is why Whitney lives while Community dies. And why you should start fretting over Parks and Recreation.

I can't believe I live in a world where people choose to watch Whitney over Parks and Rec and Community.

Not cool. Not cool. Not cool. Not cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLmMDbpUjs

Hopefully it gets the NBC-Scrubs-midseason treatment where it comes back season after season . . .

Hopefully.

wiredmaverick: I can't believe I live in a world where people choose to watch Whitney over Parks and Rec and Community.

Not just that. Rock Center only draws 30,000 fewer people than Community does. That is not a show you want to be running even with.

aw fark, Community is one of the few original shows on the air.....and it is funny. Whitney is a suck-fest and I'm guessing she got that gig by engaging in a suck-fest.

suck-fest.

Guess I have to do everything around here...



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I will not sacrifice Community. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They cancel Firefly and Jericho and we fall back. They give us two or three seasons of brilliance with shows like Arrested Development, or Better Off Ted until finally cancelling them and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!


And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.

Six seasons and a movie!!

Knight of the Woeful Countenance: I will not sacrifice Community. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They cancel Firefly and Jericho and we fall back. They give us two or three seasons of brilliance with shows like Arrested Development, or Better Off Ted until finally cancelling them and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!


And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.

You ain't making anyone pay for shiat, mister. Not you, or I, or any of us. We are not worth one cent toward a national media buy or .000001 of a share point.

Good TV is worth only one thing nowadays: publicity buzz. It wouldn't be there at all except that it functions as a tease to keep viewers hanging around in hopes that that "good TV" aura will carryover to whatever shiat gets shoveled out that will allow both programmers and sponsors to keep their heads well emplaced up their own asses.

In itself, quality TV is a loss leader. Advertisers shy away from it. Programmers don't believe in it. Networks make it pull a freight train to keep its slot, knowing it can't and won't perform miracles, and insuring it can be canceled as soon it generates its buzz. As long as people keep coming back expecting something good - and a little more resigned to watch whatever is even mediocre - nothing else matters.

I'm sorry, I really don't understand the viewing public sometimes. most times, really; Community (and Parks and Rec) are brilliantly funny shows, and are seriously being beat in ratings by the Biggest Loser? and the fairly "meh" and dragging on Office? and that horrible Whitney garbage?! and like someone else has pointed out, Firefly, Arrested Development, and Better off Ted all get killed off within a couple of seasons if that, but stuff like the big bang theory and desperate housewives and grey's anatomy can go on for years and years and years? why?

America has spoken. We want bland TV that doesn't challenge or distract us while we shove pie in our faces.

I really don't get the audience anymore.

This show is about to get canned while tripe like Whitney stays on?

This move doesn't surprise me as it's NBC, they keep Leno and Office past their expiration dates.

Either move the show to USA or next season be it's last for closure sakes.

What do you want America? You want something good or you want dumbassery?

/Friend posted on facebook to stop whining and move on like we did with Arrested Development, should I unfollow him or ignore him?

wiredmaverick: Gosling: As of most recent episodes:

Biggest Loser: 6.86 million (2.4 rating)
The Office: 5.96 million (3.0)
Prime Suspect: 4.86 million (1.1)
Up All Night: 4.79 million (1.8)
Whitney: 4.28 million (2.1)
Parks and Recreation: 3.66 million (1.8)
Community: 3.49 million (1.5)
Rock Center with Brian Williams: 3.46 million (1.0)

And that is why Whitney lives while Community dies. And why you should start fretting over Parks and Recreation.

I can't believe I live in a world where people choose to watch Whitney over Parks and Rec and Community.

I watched the first ep. It was ok. Not LOL funny. Like 30 rock funny. None of your random quotes make sense out of context funny.

seems like the best solution would be to move community to USA as a lead in to psych

browntimmy: America has spoken. We want bland TV that doesn't challenge or distract us while we shove pie in our faces.

You think "we" have dick to do with what we get given for entertainment? That pretense has been played out for decades. We're not the audience; we're the excuse. The machine has been refined to the point where marketers marking to marketers is all it needs to keep itself running.

#OccupyNBC #sixseasonsandamovie

Really disappointed by this development. Knew it wasn't doing hot in the ratings, but never thought they'd take it off the schedule outright.

If When NBC does cancel it, I hope it's able to move to another network (I'm looking at you ABC,) at least for a full, proper final season send off.

Would I love it if it really did go six seasons and a movie? Absolutely. Do I think it should at least get four years and end on its own terms? Even more so.

/(Why NBC Should No Way In Hell Cancel 'Community')

//Save Community

moothemagiccow: I watched the first ep. It was ok. Not LOL funny. Like 30 rock funny. None of your random quotes make sense out of context funny.

It gets better, and fast. The first quarter or so of the first season is the show finding it's feet, after that it's fantastic.

DundieAwardWinner: Guess I have to do everything around here...

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I've never actually watched that show... I will at some point I'm sure. In any case, I've had a stiffy for that babe since Mad Men. I'd drink her dirty bathwater...