Let’s start with some good-ish news. NBC’s Community, which was put on hiatus at the end of last year, will definitely be back, says NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. “I wanted to dispel any notion that it’s quietly disappearing from the schedule,” he told journalists at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The network said as much back in November, so the news isn’t so much a surprise as it is a welcome confirmation, but hey, it’s a start.
The series’ return date has yet to be determined, though it seems unlikely that it’ll return to the same 8 PM Thursdays slot it vacated last month. “I don’t know if it makes sense to ask it to start off the night again,” he said. Greenblatt also wouldn’t offer any hints about whether the show might return for a fourth season, saying only that the network would “look at the success of what pilots yield, what the scheduling needs are and make that decision closer to the upfront [in May].” There’s reason to be optimistic, as Vulture points out, but for now all fans can do is wait. That, and keep begging anyone with a Nielsen box to actually watch the series whenever it returns. [AV Club, TV Line]
On a less nebulous, more upbeat note, AMC has finally set a return date for Mad Men. StarJon Hamm let slip during an appearance on Doug Benson’s “Doug Loves Movies” podcast that the period drama would return for its fifth season Sunday, March 25, with an episode that marks Hamm’s first time in the director’s chair. I have nothing more to say about this, other than “freakin’ finally!” [TheWrap]
Speaking of season premieres, Showtime has posted the Season 5 premiere ofCalifornication and the Season 2 premiere of Shameless in their entirety online — though as usual, the episodes have been “edited from its original form” for nudity, language, etc. When they originally aired Sunday, Shameless drew 61% more viewers than it did in its series premiere last January, while Californication was down 11% compared to last season’s premiere.
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