When the Greendale Glee Club is unexpectedly sidelined, the school's effervescent choir director Cory Radison sets about recruiting the study group members to fill in. Skeptical at first, they eventually fall under his hypnotic spell - one-by-one - singing and dancing their way to the annual Christmas Pageant.
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one of the best episodes ever, IMO...
Loving Community! :')
@ColeFrost Awesome. Thanks for all the info!
@HansPB
Stopping production on a show that has been going for more than a couple of years is rare. I believe they will show them all. They may even push some to next year and give it a reduced order. I don't think Whitney will do well down the stretch (After they move it) and new stuff on NBC is always more likely to be bad, so I think it will find its way back and might have enough fall in front of it, to save it. Kind of the whole you only have to outrun the slowest person and not the thing chasing you, saying.
Glee isn't that relevant, but it still has nice ratings and they do a lot of tours. The younger people still show up and it is slowly getting better. I agree that it was late to the party, I mean they made fun of it in the past, but they should have done that episode back when it was first starting. It felt a bit out of place.
@ColeFrost It seems Bonermaster already did the math for me :p I presume that not all of those 12 episodes are finished already, but they definitely won't stop production on them?
Btw, Glee isn't that relevant anymore, is it? Ratings have gone dooooown. One could say that Community is kinda late to the party with this awesome parody. I blame Glee though :p I like the show, but it only seems to get worse and worse now (and therefore less popular).
@ColeFrost Big thanks for info man! So community will probably get a fourth season and if the show getts sold good then it might even keep going! Lets hope for the best and prepare for the worst, atleast we have 12 episodes left to look forward too! Thx!
@HansPB
There are 22 episodes in this season. This was episode 10, so I'll let you do the math. :)
A good resource for specific show information that isn't user updated (Since they get it wrong all the time at other places), is TheFutonCritic.
Here is the Community Page
Also, I agree with the hating the singing thing. It was meant to be both funny and a burn on Glee. I like both shows, so I got a kick out of what they were doing.
@ColeFrost Wow, you're thorough! And I guess I have been misunderstanding some things. Remaining episodes.. How many are there? Or does nobody know yet?
And I can't believe I'm seeing comments about not liking the songs/singing. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!? :p
Skipped through pretty much half of the show. Damn the singing sucks.
@Bonermaster
Syndication is when a show is sold to another network, for airing during other hours. Studios can make a lot of money off from it, so they like to let shows reach a certain point, so they can be sold. It is usually like 88 episodes, but it can be more or less depending on the show. Cable and premium channel shows have less episodes, so they don't use the same measuring stick.
So what does that all mean? Well, basically, if a show makes it to three seasons, it usually gets a forth. Once shows are sold, networks that buy them can freely show the repeats of them. They basically pay for the rights to air repeats.
Sometimes, a show signs a really good syndication deal and stays on the air because of how much profit they make off it. Lets say that Community comes back next year and does about what it is doing now, but someone pays a lot, per episode, to air repeats. NBC might be more inclined to pay for another season, knowing they have additional revenue coming back from it.
Now things are more complicated than just that, like how sometimes the studio that produces a show isn't owned by the network or things like that. That is just the basic version of how things work.
A good resource is TV By The Numbers.