'Community' Finally Fulfills The ‘6 Seasons And A Movie’ Prophecy
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Greetings, human beings! It has taken eleven and a half years from when the goal was set, and thirteen years and thirteen days since the series premiere, but the beloved series Community is getting to complete its mission statement. The movie part of “Six seasons and a movie” has officially been greenlit.
That’s right, Community the Movie has been picked up by Peacock. The news about the film began when series star Joel McHale posted an “And a Movie” graphic on his social media. He will be reprising his role as Jeff Winger from the 2009- 2015 series, and will be joined by returning stars Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir, Alison Brie as Annie Edison, Ken Jeong as Ben Chang, and Jim Rash as Dean Pelton. Even though Gillian Anderson was erroneously tagged in the post (she has no connection to the project at all), she is more than happy to be part of it.
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Alas, that tag was meant for Gillian Jacobs, who will be returning as Britta Perry. Former series regulars Donald Glover (Troy Barnes) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley Bennett) are not currently attached to the project, but that has a bigger likelihood of changing than Chevy Chase’s Pierce Hawthorne who left the series during Season 3 due to numerous on-set issues.
Community was created by Dan Harmon, who went on to co-create Rick and Morty. It originally ran on NBC for five seasons from 2009 to 2014. Weeks after its cancellation, the short-lived Yahoo! Screen picked up the series for its sixth season in 2015, which was probably the move that killed the service. The “six seasons and a movie” mantra came about in the second season episode “Paradigms of Human Memory,” born in Abed’s overly-optimistic devotion to the short-lived NBC series The Cape. Never the ratings' darling, the show’s fans took it as their rallying cry. The show took notice during its original run and would fulfill the promise seven years after the show ended.
NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock will be non-exclusively streaming the series’s original 110-episode run. This means fans can still catch the series on Netflix, Hulu, or Prime Video. Network contemporaries Parks and Recreation and The Office currently stream exclusively on Peacock. The service is also not a stranger to movie continuations of television series, having launched with the exclusive second film for the USA Network series Psych, subtitled Lassie Come Home in July 2020. That was then followed up in November 2021 with Psych 3: This Is Gus.
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Source(s): Variety