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Community (season 3 on)

I watched it a couple times, and thought it sucked. SORRY DAN HARMON, DON'T HURT ME.
 
Fuck this life.

This past week, Karen Gillan, who plays the long-running companion Amy Pond on Doctor Who admitted that she adores NBC nerd-king comedy Community and wouldn’t hesitate to do a guest-spot as Amy Pond in the show’s internal Who spoof “Inspector Spacetime.”

Neil Gaiman responded on his Tumblr that he would love to cross the nerd-streams even more and write the bit for the show.

Since then Dan Harmon, the showrunner for Community and obvious all-consuming mind behind its unique style, has been ousted from the show. He posted his side of events early this morning at the above link.

"You know that bit a few days ago where I volunteered to write an Inspector Spacetime bit for Community if they took Karen G up on her offer to guest-Amy-Pond it?

That statement is, I am afraid, no longer operative."

To which Neil Gaiman replied with the above quote on his Tumblr this morning.

And that’s how you kill something awesome, apparently.
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Wow. That's like waking up naked on the street after being mugged and cold-cocked, and then having strangers laughing at your penis size.
 
Community wins a Best Comedy Series award:

Will ‘Community’ and ‘Homeland’ Critics Choice Television Awards Upset Wins Mean Big Things For Emmy?

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 12:55am

“The Emmy win was more like a high school popularity contest. This is from the critics!,” said Julie Bowen, the Critics’ Choice Television Awards’ newly named Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner — who also happens to be the reigning Emmy winner in the same category. But she seemed to be placing more importance on this award than even the Emmy when we talked right after Monday night’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. When I repeated her opinion to her Modern Family co-star and fellow Critics Choice winner — and reigning Emmy winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy — Ty Burrell, he agreed, saying the recognition from the critics has enormous meaning for him.

Of course it doesn’t hurt that these awards, now in their second year, are strategically positioned to happen right smack dab in the middle of Emmy voting, so tonight’s impressive turnout of nominees, winners and presenters was not suprising. Exposure at this crucial time in the process is everything, and unlike movie awards season there aren’t nearly as many opportunities for a photo op or acceptance speech as the Broadcast Critics Association offers with their nascent TV awards.

If attention is as much the prize itself then these awards could not have been better for the Emmy chances of third-season critical favorite Community, which was the big surprise winner over favored Modern Family for Best Comedy Series, and Showtime’s first-season drama Homeland, which won Best Actress in a Drama for Claire Danes and Best Drama Series over favored vets like Mad Men and Breaking Bad. The latter did win Actor in a Drama for three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston and Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for Giancarlo Esposito, while Mad Men’s sole win was for repeat victor Christina Hendricks in Supporting Drama Actress.

Does this relative shocking showing for two new, not widely viewed shows outside of critical circles mean a potential earthquake at the Emmys, where Mad Men has won the Best Drama Series award for all four of its seasons and Modern Family has done the same in the comedy category for its first two years on ABC?

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Almost all the winners in the lead drama and lead comedy categories (Cranston, Danes, Louis C.K., Amy Poehler) were no-shows (save for a spirited Zooey Deschanel, who couldn’t seem to believe her luck in winning — she tied actually with Parks And Recreation‘s Poehler). Still, many winners were there and seemed thrilled by the opportunity to rev up their Emmy speeches in front of this crowd — even though lots of cracks were made about the fact that this doesn’t exactly draw the level of Emmy celebrity participation organizers would like. But hey, it is only their second year, and it has already turned into a seeming must-attend event for Emmy hopefuls. Nevertheless, KTLA’s Sam Rubin opened the show saying, “This is the only awards show that makes the Golden Globes look legitimate.”

No one seemed to care. Winners of Best Animated Series Archer were extremely grateful for their recognition, thanking the critics by saying, “We’d like to thank the TV Critics for being the only ones watching us for two seasons”. Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries winner Julianne Moore (Game Change) also seemed ecstatic and even managed to thank the Republican Party for making her portrayal of Sarah Palin possible.

Hands down the best presenter of the evening was 85-year-old Cloris Leachman, who slowly ran through a history of her own numerous talk show appearances before presenting an absent Jimmy Fallon (who accepted on tape) with his Best Talk Show award.

As for the evening’s big upset — the Best Comedy award to NBC’s weakly rated Community, which just hang on for a half-hearted renewal — it is interesting to note that recently jettisoned creator Dan Harmon was not in attendance for the big award but star Joel McHale called it “vindication”. He went on to thank NBC “for keeping us on the air” (and even Hitler for something or other), ending with the line, “We are proud to be in a room that is way more crowded than the Golden Globes”.

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With Emmy voting continuing until June 28, the 2nd Critics Choice Television Awards just might have a significant impact in pointing Emmy voters to shows they should probably take a look at before they vote. As one of those voters, I can say it’s daunting trying to get through the piles of DVDs sent for consideration. There seem to more every year, and that’s not even taking into account the daily emails form the Academy pointing to shows available online. But it is awards ceremonies like the CCTAs that attempt to trim the field and influence Emmy. We’ll see if this one does. Remember that Homeland is just a first-year show and the quirky, offbeat Community has not been Emmy-nominated to date. Is this the year? Stay tuned.

Full list of winners
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...but, they're also currently pissing off Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin:

Animation Producers Want Emmy “Equal Treatment” -- TV Academy Responds

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday June 18, 2012 @ 4:42pm PDT

Some of Hollywood’s leading animation showrunners are mad as hell at the TV Academy, and today they let them know about it. “Why should there be one rule for Community and another for Family Guy?” says The Simpsons producer Al Jean. “We just want equal treatment.” Written by Jean, the animation gang sent a letter today chastising the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for letting the NBC series be eligible “once again” for consideration in the comedy series, writing, animated program, and short-form animated program categories. Animated shows are not eligible for consideration in non-animated writing categories. Community is a non-animated show but had an episode last season that was animated and has an animated web series featuring the show’s characters.

“I don’t expect them to change the rules this year, but I hope that next year everyone would be able to do what Community did this year,” says Jean. The letter (see below) was signed by Jean and 51 others, including Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Simpsons producer James L. Brooks, American Dad and Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and Futurama’s David X. Cohen. Jean put the letter together last week before sending it around to his fellow animation showrunners. Here’s the letter sent to TV Academy chair Bruce Rosenblum:
To Whom It May Concern:

Television Academy

We the undersigned animation showrunners and writers desire to address what we have regarded as a pernicious and unfair ruling by the Academy for the past 20 years, which we believe now, more than ever, should be redressed.

We have been told that animated program writers could not also submit their work for writing Emmys, for reasons we never understood, but supposedly pertaining to the purity of the branches.

This is why no one was more startled than we when last year “Community” was able to submit for comedy series, writing, and animated program, in the face of everything we had been told for two decades. We were told that for some reason, a one-time waiver was granted.

Imagine our surprise when this year we see “Community” once again eligible for comedy series, writing, animated program, and short-form animated program. This letter is in no way intended to be a slight on the terrific show “Community” but a request from us to enjoy the very same rights they now do. Clearly the Academy’s ban on submitting in multiple categories is being enforced in an arbitrary and unfair manner. We therefore request that we also be able to submit our programs for both animation and comedy series as well as in the writing category.

Respectfully,

Richard Appel, Mike Barker, Kit Boss, James L. Brooks, Stewart Burns, Steve Callaghan, Brett Cawley, Joe Chandler, David X. Cohen, Joel Cohen, Jim Dautrieve, John Frink, Tom Gammill, Valentina Garza, Stephanie Gillis, David A. Goodman, Dan Greaney, Matt Groening, Michael Henry, Mark Hentemann, Eric Horsted, Al Jean, Artie Johann, Stephen Kane, Ken Keeler, Brian Kelley, Jon Kern, Rob LaZebnik, Tim Long, Robert Maitia, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Marmel, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Patrick Meighan, Wendy Molyneux, Bill Odenkirk, Carolyn Omine, Don Payne, Michael Price, Eric Rogers, Michael Rowe, Jon Schroeder, Brian Scully, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, Rick Singer, Patric M. Verrone, Ali Waller, Josh Weinstein, Matt Weitzman, Jeff Westbrook, Marc Wilmore.
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TV Academy's Response here
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I'm fine with the The Simpsons being nominated for something along with Community and LOSING because The Simpsons is shit now!
 
Dan Harmon & Steve Levitan React To ‘Community’s Critics Choice Win

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 8:32am PDT

Community Critics Choice TV AwardsCommunity creator and recently ousted showrunner Dan Harmon took to Twitter to react to the show’s surprise best comedy series win at last night Critics Choice TV Awards and indicated that he was not invited to the ceremony. “Congrats, Community, and thank you, critics,” he wrote. “Sorry I was unable to have been invited!” Harmon was acknowledged onstage by Community star Joel McHale, who accepted the series’ first major award. “I want to thank Dan Harmon, who created the greatest show on television,” McHale said.

Also last night, Harmon and McHale got a shoutout from Steve Levitan, co-creator of awards juggernaut Modern Family, which won the best comedy prize last year and had been favored to repeat. “A big congrats to @danharmon, @joelmchale and everyone from Community for their big win tonight! Thrilled for them!!” Levitan tweeted. Replied Harmon: “@SteveLevitan thank you, sir. Now it’s official, by one metric, we are equally successful.”
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Hollywood is a shit town, if they can't even think to invite Harmon to the awards.
 
Entire ‘Community’ Cast Coming Back

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 4:18pm PDTTags: Chevy Chase,

EXCLUSIVE: The Greendale Community College gang will be coming back intact in the fall. I have learned that Sony Pictures TV, which produces Community, has picked up the options on all actors from the cult NBC comedy series for next season. That includes co-star Chevy Chase, who seemed noncommittal about his future on the show in the spring. “I probably won’t be around that much longer,” he said in an interview with the Huffington Post in April, around the time we broke the story about his feud with Community creator-executive producer Dan Harmon.

Following Community‘s renewal by NBC for a fourth season last month, Harmon was replaced with new showrunners, David Guarascio and Moses Port. When a Community Comic-Con panel was announced yesterday, confirmed to appear were Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs and Danny Pudi. The list doesn’t not include Chase as well as fellow original regular cast member Donald Glover. It turns out Chase is out of town for the convention but will be back to work when Community starts production on Season 4 as will be all other regulars, McHale, Jacobs, Brown, Brie, Glover, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong.

The series is riding high after scoring its first major award at the recent Critics Choice Television Awards, where it won best comedy series. More good news for the show came out of San Diego, where Community was moved up to the convention center this year
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PLUS, STAR-BURNS IS ALIVE!!!111
 
The switch to the convention center is quite meaningful. When I went to the SDCC (have I mentioned that I went to the SDCC before?). When I went to the SDCC the Community panel was tucked away in a distant corner, forgotten, like part of a pillow fort with a damp spot.

Chevy Chase can surely be in it purely for the money at this stage, unless he thinks he can convince the new writers to put his kind of comedy in there?
 
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HEY A GILLIAN JACOBS INTERVIEW. She gives good face, and STUFF. Also, she is adorable.
 
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