NBC Delays the Return of COMMUNITY and WHITNEY
October 8, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
The Friday television landscape is going to be a little less crowded than anticipated — sources confirm that COMMUNITY and WHITNEY will not have their season premieres on Friday, October 19th as originally planned. GRIMM reruns will take their place for the foreseeable future.
Vulture was first to report that the NBC comedies wouldn’t bow as scheduled, and also has a statement from NBC about their reasons behind the delay: “Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in A18-49 – we’ve decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are scheduled Monday through Wednesday and have therefore decided to hold Community and Whitney from their previously announced premieres of October 19th. Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week — plus we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule changes on those nights. When we have a better idea of viewing patterns in the next few weeks, we will announce new season premieres of Whitney and Community.”
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“Plus we have those comedies in our back pocket” – At least they could have had the decency to say “our back burner,” instead of admitting that Community exists only to be sat and farted on, then absentmindedly tossed away.