You actually give Outsourced that long? It looks horrendous. Reading about the premise before I even saw footage I thought it was going to suck. I really hope they cancel it asap and hopefully bring P-Rex back. I love that show, and waiting till January for this new crap is horse shit!
Well a month is 4 episodes and that's the max I would give it. NBC is so dumb sometimes you never can predict what they'll do.
Well a month is 4 episodes and that's the max I would give it. NBC is so dumb sometimes you never can predict what they'll do.
I'm just hoping now that the reign of Zuker is over, NBC can recover and realize what they need to do to make the network successful again. That to me would mean making sure established hits favorites get renewals over terrible new shows they just want to save face with. So for me Chuck, Parks and Recreation and Community must be renewed for next season. Otherwise I am going to continuously lose all interest in the network as a whole and just quit watching anything they put out.
No Blu-ray release for this season which sucks as I was hoping we could start from the beginning of Community on Blu. Box art for season 1 below I like how they did the yearbook signings and stuff on the cover.
That is soooo Annie. I had girls in my class that were like Annie (personality wise) and thats always what they wrote!
Fantastic cover, I love the Abed quote, it's one of my many favorites from the first season. I am really bummed about no blu-ray release though. Major suckage!
Extremely disappointed this won't be coming to Blu-Ray.
Me too. I really think a Blu-ray release would've sold too. Blergh.
I guess I'm the only one that doesn't like the cover. I do like Abed's quote, but other than that, eh. Not sure what I would've liked to see, but...not that.
Me too. I really think a Blu-ray release would've sold too. Blergh.
I guess I'm the only one that doesn't like the cover. I do like Abed's quote, but other than that, eh. Not sure what I would've liked to see, but...not that.
I agree, I think something simpler would have been better. Maybe if that was an inside cover or some sort of pamphlet. The cover is just a little busy and looks cheesy. My newest favorite show though along with Modern Family(Which is getting a BD release!!!!)
I guess I'm the only one that doesn't like the cover. I do like Abed's quote, but other than that, eh. Not sure what I would've liked to see, but...not that.
I think these would have made AWESOME covers.......
The Breakfast Club style poster would be awesome, but it excludes Pierce and Shirley...and Chang, but I don't think he needs to be on the cover
I think they want Chang on the cover because of how he has blown up. People might see the cover in the store and be interested soley based on the fact that hes in the show. I know I watch certain things because of the actors in them.
I think they want Chang on the cover because of how he has blown up. People might see the cover in the store and be interested soley based on the fact that hes in the show. I know I watch certain things because of the actors in them.
Maybe, but I mean Starburns has been on the show more than Chang. So I still don't think Jeong belongs on the cover for season 1. It looks like they will beef up his role quite a bit as a regular this coming season so for season 2 than sure put him on the cover.
In the interest of keeping this thread going, we need to have Community trivia questions. I'll post up the first one and whoever gets it right can ask the next....
Question Number 1: What is the real name of the beloved character, Starburns? Not the actor, but Starburns real name on the show.
In the interest of keeping this thread going, we need to have Community trivia questions. I'll post up the first one and whoever gets it right can ask the next....
Question Number 1: What is the real name of the beloved character, Starburns? Not the actor, but Starburns real name on the show.
I've got some good stuff fellow Community alum...........
Comic-Con: A 'Community' love-fest
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The "Community" panel yesterday afternoon went exactly the way you would hope a show's Comic-Con debut would: a large room, packed with fans so knowledgeable about and in love with the show that they cheered an episode title ("Modern Warfare," of course) and the stars and producers of a terrific but low-rated show getting to experience first-hand just how passionate their small fanbase is.
Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs and Yvette Nicole Brown all paused before answering questions to talk about how overwhelmed they were by the crowd response. Jacobs apologized for her smeared makeup, since she began crying "tears of joy" upon entering the room, and Brown said, "We have never seen so much humanity in one place celebrating our show. Thank you, so much."
I kept running into the cast and producers throughout the afternoon and evening (including for some interviews that will be turning up on the site in the days and weeks ahead), and they were all still floating on that love. And the crowd in turn got to experience one of the most entertaining TV panels of the con, and I'll have details about it after the jump...
This was a huge panel, with everyone in the cast but Ken Jeong, plus creator Dan Harmon, writing producers Neil Goldman and Garret Donovan and directing producers Joe and Anthony Russo. Moderator Todd VanDerWerff - who did a great job, and kindly recapped the "Chuck" panel that Fienberg and I were on stage for(*) - called this "the first of hopefully many appearances of Community at Comic-Con," then let Harmon talk a bit about the season 1 DVD set (audience members were given a Greendale student ID card to get a $5 discount on it), which comes out on Sept. 21 (season 2 launches two nights later).
(*) Quick digression on "Chuck": thus far, everyone we talked to who was in that room, be they "Chuck" actors or reporters or just fans, said they had a great time in spite of the weird ending, so I've set aside my guilt about that. Still, there was a point midway through the "Community" panel where I began thinking, "Throw it to the audience, Todd! Throw it to the audience! Don't be like me!" Fortunately, Todd got plenty of audience Q&A in, so I was glad to have been a cautionary tale.
Harmon said he hoped fans would buy the DVD (which contains a small Kick-Puncher comic book, drawn by Jim Mahfood and "written by Troy Barnes") rather than BitTorrent the episodes so they'd have a physical copy of the show. "It's the last thing you have when you die on your death bed," he suggested, before acknowledging that family and friends might be there, too. We also got a sneak peek at one DVD special feature, and all I will say is that you will never look at Britta the same way again afterwards.
Todd asked the cast and Harmon if they could tell newcomers why they should watch the show in five words or less. Their answers:
Joel McHale: "Because there's nothing better on."
Alison Brie: "Witty banter, Betty White."
Donald Glover: "Troy, Abed, love tri... angle?" (Danny Pudi high-fived that.)
Gillian Jacobs: "Dan Harmon is really funny."
Chevy Chase: "I am really... gay."
Danny Pudi: "Amazing comedic ensemble, and tags."
Yvette Nicole Brown: "Because we love you lots."
Dan Harmon: "Episode 4: 'Apollo 13' homage."
Talk of the "Apollo 13" episode (which Harmon later promised would not take the characters into orbit, but might come close) inevitably led to discussion of "Modern Warfare," and Harmon's love of "Die Hard," and McHale and everyone else complimenting the work of director Justin Lin.
"The NBC directors were trying to burn down our sets, because it was costing so much money," said McHale, since the episode shot over 8 days instead of the show's usual five.
Glover and Pudi were asked about being in "TV's greatest bromance," and Glover said he realized he and Pudi were going to be great friends when Pudi offered to help him move not long after meeting. This led to some imagery about the two of them wearing short-shorts and visors in an alley in LA that may or may not have been true, and then the two of them reprising their performance of "Donde. Esta. La biblioteca" to a huge ovation.
There were a lot of acoustic issues in the room that often kept the panelists from being able to hear Todd or each other, which ultimately led Chevy Chase to trot out his failed microphone gag (from "Spies Like Us") on several occasions.
Brie (who got perhaps the loudest response of any castmember) was asked for her feelings about the Jeff/Annie sexual tension, and she said, "It was really interesting to read fanfiction online about Annie and Jeff having sex. So that put me to bed some nights... No, I'm kidding. But it was an exciting turn of events for Annie, and myself." (Joe Russo confirmed that the cast has, indeed, seen various Jeff/Annie fanfic sites.)
Jacobs talked about how similar Britta is to herself. "I have a kinship with Britta. I recognize her desire to be a good person, and sometimes her intentions go awry. She ends up causing more harm than good.
"I hope that I'm not humorless and a buzzkill," she added. "I've never been told that in my real life."
The other actors talked about how Glover does read, R-rated characters on set, and he performed one of them - a homeless man who claims aliens are coming as an excuse to perform oral sex on straight men - then said, "I am so sorry to the parents in the room."
Pudi raved about getting to play Abed: "I am the luckiest person on the planet to be doing this role. To have a voice like this kind of character, you just don't see that this often."
A fan asked about the possibility of a "Community" soundtrack, featuring both cool songs used on the show and things performed by the cast like "Oh, Christmas Troy" and "Pierce, You're a B." Harmon said their music supervisors have wanted to try that for a while, but speculated that at best they could put together an iTunes playlist.
The actors were asked how much improvisation was in each episode. Glover called the scripts "tightly-written," and said sometimes the improv was less about changing the dialogue then in delivering it, like a long bit of physical business Brie did when Annie said "the gravy train is leaving the station." McHale mentioned that Glover ad-libbed the line about his cousin's funeral at the end of the Bert and Ernie tag, and Glover pointed out that having Abed and Troy play Bert and Ernie was itself Brown's idea. The tag from the Halloween episode was also improvised, since the scripted idea had to be thrown out at the last minute for legal reasons, so Glover and Pudi were told to just talk and see what happened.
A fan asked again about Jeff and Annie, and whether the writers have a long-term plan or go episode-to-episode. Harmon said that while producers on some shows shut themselves off from audience feedback - "That's not a good or a bad thing," he added, "that's a choice" - he is acutely aware of how the audience is responding and often makes story decisions accordingly.
"This is a special kind of show, and it's supposed to make you feel good, and you have to know if that's happening," he said.
Harmon and Garret Donovan then elaborated that while fans have "nudged the show in certain directions," they're not slavish about following the whims of their audience.
"It's not just, 'Oh, everyone likes cookies, so let's put more cookies in the show,'" said Harmon, who compared the viewing experience to riding a roller coaster, where you want to be surprised by the loops and turns and not have control of them. Sometimes, the writers even purposely antagonize the audience to keep viewers on their toes.
"It's about paying attention, especially with the relationships," he said. "That is so fed back into by the audience, whereas we can come up with good stories and characters and jokes. That's our job. And then we go onto the Internet and go, 'Look at these knuckleheads. They really want Troy to have sex with a fire hydrant.'"
The panel closed on an audience member asking Glover and Pudi to reprise their performance of "Somewhere Out There." The two struggled to remember all the words (at one point they were singing two different verses at once), but found their harmony and the crowd loved it.
John Oliver gets a promotion
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As mentioned in my recap of the "Community" panel at Comic-Con, afterwards I did several interviews with the cast and creative team. Most of those probably won't get published until I'm done with Comic-Con and then the TV critics press tour, but I should have a video interview with Donald Glover and Danny Pudi up tomorrow, and right now I wanted to immediately share one piece of news from a long interview I did with creator Dan Harmon, coming right up (note there are some small spoilers for the season premiere, but the usually spoiler-averse Harmon wasn't bothered to reveal them, so neither am I)...
Near the end of last season, Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) was fired from his job as Spanish teacher when it was revealed he had no real training for it. Chang became a student, and as the study group finished their first year at Greendale, they all agreed to take an anthropology class the next year so they'd have an excuse to stick together.
For similar reasons, Harmon said he wanted to put the characters into a new class for season two, since the study room in the library is "like your 'Star Trek' bridge or your 'Cheers' bar."
In the season premiere, the anthropology professor will be played by the ubiquitous Betty White, but her character will be suspended by the school for her behavior in the premiere.
"Which means she might come back at any time," said Harmon, "And I would leave that up to Ms. White, pretty much. I'm a big fan."
So who will become the group's new teacher? Look no further than John Oliver as Professor Ian Duncan, whose specialty is psychology, but who will be temporarily filling in for White's character.
Harmon said Oliver was "one of my favorite things about the first season, even though you never ever get to see him, and he's one of the funniest guys I've ever worked with. I wanted to see what it might be like, just to see it, if he in fact was the so-called Chang and Chang was one of the students. Whether or not that makes Chang part of the study group, I won't address, but I wanted to see John Oliver in front of our ensemble, teaching some kind of class. The nice way to do it is to have him filling in for a suspended Betty White."
And why did Harmon decide to demote Chang from professor to student?
"I don't want people to get tired of anything," he said. "Ken Jeong is a funny dude. And the position of teacher - guy assigning homework and giving tests and being the ironically crazy authority figure - it was good for exactly one season, in my opinion... There would be a shelf life there. Ken Jeong is funny in very, very specific ways, and is a very well-received flavor in the show. I think that him as a student is going to create more opportunities for a really memorable character. I think we did enough with him standing in front of the classroom teaching bad Spanish."
In the third episode of the new season of "Community," Drew Carey will portray Ted, a good-natured --but much feared patriarch -- at Jeff's (Joel McHale) old law firm. Meanwhile, Rob Corddry will play Alan, Jeff's best friend at his old law firm who bumps into him on the Greendale campus and lures Jeff back into his old life back at the prestigious firm.
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