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Please, someone tell me when S04 is hitting the shelfs :( I keep singing "Troy and Abed in the morrrrrninggg" everytime I drink my morning tea :(

I'm addicted haha.
 
October 19th.

but when is the 19th of October? ;)


This is suppose to be the last throw of the dice for community they delayed it to give it some more marketting as its on the fine line of being a success or failure... lets hope the marketting team does a good job...

Stelly
 
Eh? :( So it's pushed back then.

In fairness, the acting is pretty bad, but the content is generally really fun and easy to watch. Which is why I like it. Can easily go through 5 pisodes without thinking about it.
 
Eh? :( So it's pushed back then.

In fairness, the acting is pretty bad, but the content is generally really fun and easy to watch. Which is why I like it. Can easily go through 5 pisodes without thinking about it.

Yup its been pushed back BUT for a good reason I think if they were going to cut it they would have but I think that the network see potential and so they are going to give it more of a marketting budget.

Stelly
 
Yup its been pushed back BUT for a good reason I think if they were going to cut it they would have but I think that the network see potential and so they are going to give it more of a marketting budget.

Stelly

Nah exactly, you don't film a who season and then not air it. The expensive bit is filming. Even if they put it on in a horrible timeslot they would make some money back from the advertising. I think it has something to do with 30 Rock.
 
In my opinion, the people who like the show will 'tune in' to see it no matter what time/day it's on - they aren't likely to get many new viewers at this stage. So it doesn't matter how much NBC screw the fans over with the air date, they are still likely to get a similar number of viewing figures. So at the moment they are probably trying to push some of their other shows (eg, like desires says: 30 Rock, or perhaps some of their new shows).
 
I think it's likely that they'll move Community to another day and time slot when they bring it back. Which is good, really.
 
Nah exactly, you don't film a who season and then not air it. The expensive bit is filming. Even if they put it on in a horrible timeslot they would make some money back from the advertising. I think it has something to do with 30 Rock.

You say that, but it happened to Breaking In earlier this year. Got cancelled after the first season, then renewed for a second season, five episodes of thirteen aired and then it was pulled with no intention of ever airing the rest.
 
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Nah exactly, you don't film a who season and then not air it. The expensive bit is filming. Even if they put it on in a horrible timeslot they would make some money back from the advertising. I think it has something to do with 30 Rock.

NBC don't pay for the show, so the cost isn't the issue. The fourth series means that the show will go into syndication, so in the end Sony will make loads of money from worldwide syndication for years to come.

In my view the show's only been renewed so they have enough episodes to put it in worldwide syndication.

Even if NBC don't show it it'll get shown somewhere eventually. Sony will ensure it happens, even if it's some backwater channel somewhere.
 
Shows already been picked up for syndication by one network, and its a shortarse season thats been done so far, only supposed to be 13 eps which makes it a little weak. Either way, the longer a show is the more money it would get from syndication. If comedy network shows it 5 days a week for a few months, its out, if its 5 days a week for a year, then starts again, people will rewatch the same old crap over and over.

However syndication also depends on ratings and how much money its worth, a show that was getting 10mil viewers in its 4th series will sell for a crapload more in syndication than a show barely breaking 2.5(and considering the year on year fall its likely to actually be way under 2 for the final year :( ).

Syndication isn't a guarentee for printing money by any means. I really don't get why the viewing figures for it are so poor, its freaking fantastic, or, it was epic, its still pretty good.

Things like this just tank how well a show can do, people all gearing up to watch it on the 19th and they push it. Networks are run by idiots, uk is even worse for it, I loved NYPD blue but trying to watch it consistently in the uk was a joke, one week it was on at 10pm on a wednesday, then it wouldn't show an ep for 2 weeks, and it was on at 2am on a friday.... utterly ridiculous, missed so many episodes.
 
I can explain the low ratings. The show was always on at the same time as Big Bang Theory. BBT is probably the most popular show in the US right now. Look at its ratings, 15 million viewers each episode. I reckon if you look at any other shows that are on at the same time as BBT, they'll have poor ratings too.

I think that a different timeslot for community would do it a world of good and show us just how popular it actually is.
 
Are tivo recordings counted into the viewers, or would they be null anyway sue to people skipping the adverts?

I do wonder what goes through schedulers heads when they puts a show head to head with a very similar show. In the US Weeds aired at the same time as Breaking Bad, I can't think of a stupider decision tbh.

If Community is head to head with Big Bang Theory then they really do have no chance. I'm not a fan or BBT but I'm smart enough to realise there is a lot more people that are fans.
 
I can explain the low ratings. The show was always on at the same time as Big Bang Theory. BBT is probably the most popular show in the US right now. Look at its ratings, 15 million viewers each episode. I reckon if you look at any other shows that are on at the same time as BBT, they'll have poor ratings too.

I think that a different timeslot for community would do it a world of good and show us just how popular it actually is.

I don't think the problem is the time slot, its the people, lets call people who watch the big bang theory... idiots who have no sense of humour and like laughter sound tracks as clues as to when to find something funny, and people who watch Community, smart people who have a sense of humour.... moving Community to a new time slot won't mean there are more smart americans :p

Meh, I really would like to see if certain shows did really well with internet distribution. A itunes(but not apple) style delivery system where they say, have 13 episodes of community, every episode costs say 5p each, and if they get a certain amount of viewers averaged per ep then they'll do another season, etc, etc. I'm sure the internet downloading viewers would have easily been able to keep Firefly and could keep Community and the like going.

From the UK, I can't watch community(in any serious time frame) without, finding a way to watch it free.. i'd happily pay if given the option but US networks are still stuck in a pre-internet era of distribution. Ratings are pointless, people view tv in a range of different ways, some measurable easily, some not at all.

I mean how clear is it that Firefly was loved by millions upon millions of people, just never really got the chance to see it, and the network(fox? I can't remember) cancelled it when clearly there was huge demand for a crapload more episodes.

yeah, reality tv makes money and costs nothing, doesn't mean they can't make good tv, distribute it online and make EVEN MORE MONEY, lower profit maybe, but there are different markets. I don't and won't watch reality tv, millions, billions of people hate it, and I'll happily pay to watch good tv. Why don't these idiots adapt, make a variety of content and if the viewing figures on tv aren't great, make them available online.
 
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