[AbsoluteZero]

I can't take you seriously as long as you include The Office. :)

Sorry, but even though the overall quality may have slipped, I still like most of the characters on The Office.

30 Rock is just horrible by comparison.

[Lone_Prodigy]

Friday night? Well it had a good run.

[beat]

I'm about half way into season 2 and I'm still liking Chuck. Without spoiling anything, can you tell me when it starts to go off the rails? Does it ever come back together?

IMO, Chuck went off the rails in S3. It was semi-watchable the rest of the way, but I constantly bitched about the terrible plotting. I know it was a popcorn show, but the leaps of logic and reliance on artificially stupid characters was really unacceptably lazy writing. The charm of the leads half-salvaged it, though, and there are a couple of good episodes from S3 to S5. Though I, like a lot of people, really hated the main arc of S3 and so S4 seemed like a relief just by comparison.

[AlphaTwo00]

Friday night? Well it had a good run.

I don't think there's a clear answer, and who knows what the drop off is, but if friday night community gets the same viewership, won't that actually be a good thing for longevity?

[Baconsammy]

I don't think there's a clear answer, and who knows what the drop off is, but if friday night community gets the same viewership, won't that actually be a good thing for longevity?

The target audience for a show like Community isn't home on Friday nights. They may register a lot more newer viewers from the audience that is home on Fridays that previously never tuned in on Thursday because of CBS crapola or Idol. If I had to guess, I'd say the show is going to die a miserable death on Fridays, but we'll get our 13 episodes and some closure before it rides off into syndication.

[out0v0rder]

I remember when Fox moved the good guys to a friday night slot. :(

it's gone now.

[gabbo]

I don't think there's a clear answer, and who knows what the drop off is, but if friday night community gets the same viewership, won't that actually be a good thing for longevity?

The only way it could be put on a worse night is if it ended up on Saturday. I would be shocked if Community made a 1.0 on Fridays with Whitney as the lead in. I would love for it to somehow find a larger audience on Friday, I really would, but I have a feeling somebody named Harmon had to fight just to get that renewal for 13. Put 'Stargate' or Battlestar' in the title and it's Friday numbers will soar on that alone.

[big ander]

Nah community won't drastically drop in ratings; its audience is the kind that would follow from slot to slot. I think it'll be the last season but it will do well for friday.

[IceCold]

Look what I just found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt56jutf1vk&#t=0m21s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt56jutf1vk&#t=1m11s

:o

[Baconsammy]

Joel before the hair plugs?

[Lone_Prodigy]

I used to watch Terminator TSCC and Dollhouse. Both were on Friday night. Both had a small, dedicated fanbase. Both lasted two seasons.

[Cindres]

Look what I just found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt56jutf1vk&#t=0m21s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt56jutf1vk&#t=1m11s :o

Was it a different guy in the actual movie? I swear it wasn't Joel, maybe i'm totally wrong :p

[Hot Coldman]

Wow, that's fantastic. Need to rewatch that film.

[OnPoint]

Was it a different guy in the actual movie? I swear it wasn't Joel, maybe i'm totally wrong :p

Listed in his IMDB, so I guess it's real

[Liquidsnake]

What ever night, I am just glad it will be back.

[Sketch_Turntable]

I am gonna guess that the initial ratings will be lower, but when they add in DVR ratings, it will stay about the same.

[Baconsammy]

I am gonna guess that the initial ratings will be lower, but when they add in DVR ratings, it will stay about the same.

Agreed. I dont see this type of showing growing over time in viewers. Probably have lost more than they gained with all the gimmick episodes this season. The solid base will always be there, and will at least sustain the Friday timeslot for 13 episodes. I'm secretly hoping for ever other new comedy on NBC to fail though.

[mclem]

The only way it could be put on a worse night is if it ended up on Saturday. I would be shocked if Community made a 1.0 on Fridays with Whitney as the lead in. I would love for it to somehow find a larger audience on Friday, I really would, but I have a feeling somebody named Harmon had to fight just to get that renewal for 13. Put 'Stargate' or Battlestar' in the title and it's Friday numbers will soar on that alone.

I've never quite understood exactly what the key difference is between the UK and the US in terms of weekend viewing, but for some reason Saturday is generally the biggest television night of the week for us and Friday is often highly-rating too, with comedy doing particularly well.

I get that people go out on those days in the US, but they go out on those days in the UK, too, and yet they're the days which get particularly high ratings over here and just dead over there. Why?

[beat]

It was a cultural shift. A few decades ago, Friday night was big for TV in the US, but over time people stopped watching that night and networks stopped putting anything good that night, two things that probably reinforced each other.

[ezekial45]

Dan Harmon has got a new animated show coming to Adult Swim called Rick & Morty

[gabbo]

I've never quite understood exactly what the key difference is between the UK and the US in terms of weekend viewing, but for some reason Saturday is generally the biggest television night of the week for us and Friday is often highly-rating too, with comedy doing particularly well. I get that people go out on those days in the US, but they go out on those days in the UK, too, and yet they're the days which get particularly high ratings over here and just dead over there. Why?

Having good programming air on Friday/Saturday would certainly help, but none of the major broadcast networks even try anymore. Friday is a burial ground for dying shows, was a hotbed for sci-fi at one time, and Saturday is for reruns and Saturday Night Live.

[AniHawk]

It was a cultural shift. A few decades ago, Friday night was big for TV in the US, but over time people stopped watching that night and networks stopped putting anything good that night, two things that probably reinforced each other.

the last big thing on fridays i remember was the x-files. i think friday night tv died when that moved.

[Tuck]

Fridays at 830? *Groans* I'm about half way into season 2 and I'm still liking Chuck. Without spoiling anything, can you tell me when it starts to go off the rails? Does it ever come back together?

Season 3.

Season 1 and 2 had a very strong narrative arc. Season 3 never delivers on the promised resolution on that arc. It closes the story from those first two seasons, but does so very poorly. Season 4 was better, but it was a complete tangent from the over arcing story of season 1-3.

Season 5 is basically a bunch of random stuff. Pretty good. At the end they make you think they would go back and give the season 1-3 storyline a proper ending, but they don't.

[zychi]

Does anyone know where I can find a bigger/ 1920x1080 resolution of this picture? Or if anyone is willing to turn it into a background via photo shopping here out and changing the background?

[Manmademan]

the last big thing on fridays i remember was the x-files. i think friday night tv died when that moved.

TGIF was huge for a while- no idea why that died out

[Man-is-Obsolete]

It was a cultural shift. A few decades ago, Friday night was big for TV in the US, but over time people stopped watching that night and networks stopped putting anything good that night, two things that probably reinforced each other.

OH man I remember TGIF!! LOL that was good times. Family Matters rocked.

[Lijik]

Does anyone know where I can find a bigger/ 1920x1080 resolution of this picture? Or if anyone is willing to turn it into a background via photo shopping here out and changing the background?

Here

[Baconsammy]

Friday and Saturdays in the US have pretty much become bar nights in regard to content. In other words sports.

[GBONZZZZ]

Here

Ohhh my.

[Quick]

I'll just leave this here.

[Harry Potter]

There's three new episodes this Thursday?

[snesfreak]

I'll just leave this here.

Yeah I saw that, they need to get on that and make it happen.

There's three new episodes this Thursday?

Yep.
8, 9 and 9:30.

[PushTheButtonMax]

Does anyone know where I can find a bigger/ 1920x1080 resolution of this picture? Or if anyone is willing to turn it into a background via photo shopping here out and changing the background?

I can't do any of the things you asked, but thanks for the new avatar!

[Hot Coldman]

I'll just leave this here.

Fire Chevy, hire her

[GBONZZZZ]

I can't do any of the things you asked, but thanks for the new avatar!

Really good pic of her.

[gabbo]

I'll just leave this here.

It's already established in IS lore (tvtropes) that Arthur Darvill/Rory exists in the universe, now get Amy in the Dreamatorium asap! She can be anothe student if need be, whatever it takes.

[rinker]

So I was watching some old parks and rec episodes, and in the season 3 finale, Tom refers to the office of entertainment 720 as the "dreamatorium"

[Quick]

It's already established in IS lore (tvtropes) that Arthur Darvill/Rory exists in the universe, now get Amy in the Dreamatorium asap! She can be anothe student if need be, whatever it takes.

Greendale exchange student from Greenshire community college.

[OnPoint]

Been slowly marching through season 2, watched the Valentine's Dance/Party at Winger's episode last night and forgot how awesome it was when Abed and Troy were trying to get the librarian's attention, so he yelled "BOOKS!" at her.

God that librarian was cute haha

[Baconsammy]

Taco briefcase.

[gabbo]

Greendale exchange student from Greenshire community college.

YES

[ezekial45]

I'll just leave this here.

It looked like she was reading off cue cards.

[Lone_Prodigy]

Community could use some redheads.

[Nappuccino]

Community could use some redheads.

Bring back the librarian!

[mj1108]

Oh...wow....

Clip of 8-bit Community.

Linky

[Rafa=FedKilla]

It looked like she was reading off cue cards.

That's just how she talks during interviews and such brah.

[XeroSauce]

Oh...wow.... Clip of 8-bit Community. Linky

NO WAY

This looks FANTASTIC

[Baconsammy]

Oh...wow.... Clip of 8-bit Community. Linky

Haha, murdering Annie is better than doing nothing.

[AbsoluteZero]

I'll just leave this here.

Why does it look like she's reading that from a prepared script?

Also, ripping my season 2 DVD into iTunes.

[Quick]

Oh...wow.... Clip of 8-bit Community. Linky