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Community was renewed, NBC Thursday

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ding12

NBC actually renewed "Community".
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ader-drama-blacklist-20130510,0,3358128.story
While I'm a fan, I was surprised because the show's low ratings.

And the Matthew Perry sitcom "Go On" didn't get renewed, although it aired on Tuesday. Given Perry's stardom, Should NBC have atleast tried, promoted "Go On" and give it sometime on Thursday? I guess we'll see Perry on "The Good Wife" more.

"Parks and Recreation" was also renewed, and it will be in syndication this Fall. However, the series seems to have lost it's edge this season in my opinion. Maybe with the whole marrying off everyone in the department, Tom's business unrealistic (Tom is funny, but his character (Indian guy who dissociated entirely being Indian American) is a little unrealistic) and few other things that aren't funny. I think it peaked Season2/Season3 maybe early Season 4.

While "The Office" was lackluster last year, the last couple episodes are bringing closure and the finale next week should be good.
 
Community, and Parks and Recreation renewed. Jimmy Fallon takes over Tonight. 30 Rock is gone of its own volition but still SNL alum continue to take over prime time.

Meanwhile, Francisco Franco remains dead.
 
Fred Leonard reminds us that: said:
Meanwhile, (onetime Spanish leader) Francisco Franco remains dead.
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This running gag on "Saturday Night Live"'s "Weekend Update" was a parody of how John Chancellor opened up "NBC Nightly News" every evening for a couple of weeks in the Fall of 1975, around the time "SNL" got started.

Franco was near death in a hospital, but held on for weeks. Chancellor led the newscast almost every weeknight during the period with an update on Franco's condition.

Chancellor's constantly leading "Nightly News" with Franco became such a standing joke around NBC that "SNL" parodied it.

I believe once a year, they still get in a Franco joke on "Weekend Update", as in "After over 37 years, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!".
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Fred Leonard reminds us that: said:
Meanwhile, (onetime Spanish leader) Francisco Franco remains dead.
Click to expand...

This running gag on "Saturday Night Live"'s "Weekend Update" was a parody of how John Chancellor opened up "NBC Nightly News" every evening for a couple of weeks in the Fall of 1975, around the time "SNL" got started.

Franco was near death in a hospital, but held on for weeks. Chancellor led the newscast almost every weeknight during the period with an update on Franco's condition.

Chancellor's constantly leading "Nightly News" with Franco became such a standing joke around NBC that "SNL" parodied it.

I believe once a year, they still get in a Franco joke on "Weekend Update", as in "After over 37 years, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!".
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Right. And the "anchor" of Weekend Update then was future Community star Chevy Chase (as in "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not").
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Fred Leonard reminds us that: said:
Meanwhile, (onetime Spanish leader) Francisco Franco remains dead.
Click to expand...
Chancellor's constantly leading "Nightly News" with Franco became such a standing joke around NBC that "SNL" parodied it.

I believe once a year, they still get in a Franco joke on "Weekend Update", as in "After over 37 years, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!".
Click to expand...

One of the few examples that recall the early days of SNL. Another notorious example was the murder of the entertainer Professor Backwards, whose last words, according to SNL, were "pleh, pleh."
 
It's clear that after The Voice airs in the fall and football season is over, NBC will be at the bottom of the pile again.
 
This is unbelievable.

However, I found "Go On" annoying and stuck around mainly because, while I didn't ever watch "Friends", I found Perry's other series to be enjoyable because of him.

It's too bad this man can't get a successful series. "Studio 60" was really good.

I would have missed "Community". I'm not sure why.
 
ding12 said:
NBC actually renewed "Community".
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ader-drama-blacklist-20130510,0,3358128.story
While I'm a fan, I was surprised because the show's low ratings.

And the Matthew Perry sitcom "Go On" didn't get renewed, although it aired on Tuesday. Given Perry's stardom, Should NBC have atleast tried, promoted "Go On" and give it sometime on Thursday? I guess we'll see Perry on "The Good Wife" more.

"Parks and Recreation" was also renewed, and it will be in syndication this Fall. However, the series seems to have lost it's edge this season in my opinion. Maybe with the whole marrying off everyone in the department, Tom's business unrealistic (Tom is funny, but his character (Indian guy who dissociated entirely being Indian American) is a little unrealistic) and few other things that aren't funny. I think it peaked Season2/Season3 maybe early Season 4.

While "The Office" was lackluster last year, the last couple episodes are bringing closure and the finale next week should be good.
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I'll second that Parks & Rec has lost its edge, but thats uncommon for sitcoms, especially single camera, laugh track free sitcoms. I experienced the same diminishing return with the Office and 30 Rock and Scrubs- as the characters become more comfortable and more familiar to us, it loses some of its luster. The rare sitcom that can pull of the opposite feat, which in my opinion includes laugh track comedies Seinfeld and the Big Bang Theory, seem to either expand their universe or go in a more broad, almost slapstick direction to avoid the pitfalls of us tiring of the characters. This is a more difficult direction to go in when you're presenting your comedy in a single camera, documentary style.

New Girl and the Mindy Project are now my favorites of these type of comedies but I imagine they will start to show their age within a few years too.
 
I always remembered that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead, started SNL was preempted in order for NBC to televise his funeral live. Live in our time was 11:30pm on Saturday. From there on out they made fun at NBC televising a funeral of someone that was not quite a significant well known Head of State.
 
Surprised NBC cancelled a lot of shows. I am THRILLED Whitney got canned (she's not funny at all to me) and so did 1600 Penn (the Modern Family comparison ruined the show), but I felt Go On deserved another season. It wasn't terrible at all, though the finale could've been better.
 
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