joshEH
Senior HTF Member
Returns on Tuesday, March 17th, with two brand-new episodes, on Yahoo! Screen. Following this, subsequent episodes will appear one during each Tuesday for the rest of the season.
A new video starring the cast and Dan Harmon (that is not directly embeddable):
http://screen.yahoo.com/community-cast-announces-season-6-162500604.html
Some highlights revealed during the TCA Press Tour:
A new video starring the cast and Dan Harmon (that is not directly embeddable):
http://screen.yahoo.com/community-cast-announces-season-6-162500604.html
Some highlights revealed during the TCA Press Tour:
- A clip shows Annie attempting to talk Chang through an audition for a stage adaptation of The Karate Kid.
- Dan Harmon says that the show was "literally hours" away from not being renewed, and that when the deal came in, Harmon and Chris McKenna had just hours to pick up any writers' options.
- Harmon had a 40-minute phone conversation with a Yahoo! executive that "turned me 180 degrees" in favor of going there. He had been expecting to wind up at Hulu, instead.
- Chevy Chase might make a reappearance some time during this season, but Harmon is keeping schtum for now ("If something like that were to happen -- if you were to take a man and bring him back to life like that -- I would keep it a secret. I wouldn't reveal it in a hotel in Pasadena.")
- Harmon says there was never any discussion about a "binge-release" for the new season. He doesn't care how the show gets released and marketed, only about the content.
- The show is now shooting on a new soundstage, the CBS Radford lot, where Parks and Recreation filmed, and the show now has basically twice the size available to them compared to their old stages on the Paramount lot.
- The budget is now bigger than it was at NBC, and they're shooting outdoors again for the first time in years (around Season 2, from my estimation). Harmon explained that they also took some of the money that they no longer had to spend on Chevy and other departed cast members, and reinvested it back into the show.
- Creative differences are practically gone now, compared to dealing wth NBC -- there's no longer any pressure to reach a certain ratings-number ("The corset loosens a little bit," Harmon said. "There's a tiny bit more British-ness to the humor").
- Episode running-length is likewise no longer a factor -- some might end up going 30 minutes or longer, depending. Also, McKenna mentioned that they might not have to run credits over the episode tags either, necessarily.
- We'll be seeing lots more of Jeff as a teacher this season, which received great feedback last year, but (in Harmon's words) they "got distracted" by other things, including Donald Glover's farewell, etc. "It is going to be a very grounded season. [Greendale] has bills to pay. It's becoming Dunder-Mifflin, which you can believe exists."
- Yvette Nicole Brown left the show for "very personal" reasons, but Harmon is leaving the door wide open for her if she ever wants to return.