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‘Community’ Is Coming Back, Will Dan Harmon Return Too?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 9:34pm PDTTags: Community, Dan Harmon, NBC
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In a repeat from last year, NBC‘s perennial bubble comedy Community just snagged a 13-episode renewal. There have been some significant changes on the show over the past 12 months though. When NBC renewed the show last May, it still had creator Dan Harmon as showrunner and Chevy Chase as co-star. Immediately after the upfronts, Harmon was replaced with David Guarascio and Moses Port. Then in November, Chase too departed. The bitter feud between Chase and Harmon was a major factor in destabilizating of the show for a couple of seasons, leading to public outbursts and profane voice messages. Now that Chase is gone, emotions have cooled down and all sides involved have had time to reflect, there is speculation that Harmon may come back, especially if this turns out to be Community‘s final chapter. (I’d heard that, with the show’s future at NBC in limbo, there were a number of suitors clamoring to pick up Community for a final installment.) There are no deals in place but I hear there certainly is interest in bringing Harmon back in some capacity.

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Adult Swim Picks Up Dan Harmon’s Animated Comedy ‘Rick & Morty’ To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Adult Swim, Dan Harmon
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Rick And Morty Dan Harmon Adult SwimEXCLUSIVE: Community creator Dan Harmon is back on the air with a new series, this time on Adult Swim. The network has given a series order to Rick & … Read More »

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Charlie Kaufman Film Gets Crowdfunding

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday September 18, 2012 @ 3:37am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Charlie Kaufman, Dan Harmon, Kickstarter

Charlie Kaufman and his producing partners — former Community showrunner Dan Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos — do not want to deal with Hollywood, and now at least for one project they don’t have to. A stop-motion animation adaptation of the Kaufman-written play Anomalisa raised $406,237 for the film’s production in 60 days via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. “We want to make Anomalisa without the interference of the typical big-studio process,” according to a pitch video that Harmon and Stamatopoulos’ Starburns Industries put up on the project page. The film raised more than double the money the producers were asking from 5,770 Kickstarter backers. Read More »

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Comic-Con: New ‘Community’ Showrunners Promise Not To Screw It Up

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Community, Dan Harmon, Joel McHale

Community Comic-ConThe Community panel wasted no time in addressing the departure of Dan Harmon this morning.

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“The only thing we care about is keeping it the weird wonderful gem it always has been, said new producer David Guarascio to applause from the packed ballroom. “We’re not going to screw it up,” the other new showrunner Moses Port added later. Guarascio and Port became Community’s showrunners after Harmon was fired by NBC in May. Cast members Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Joel McHale, Yvette Nicole Brown, series writers Megan Ganz, Andy Bobrow and executive producer Russ Krasnoff joined the showrunners on the panel. Chevy Chase, Ken Jeong, Donald Glover and Jim Rash were not there. Read More »

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Comic-Con: ‘Community’s Joel McHale Wanted Ousted Creator Dan Harmon Back

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 10:13am PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Community, Dan Harmon, Joel McHale, NBC

Comic-Con Community“It’s a strange transition time” at Community, series star Joel McHale said this morning on the sidelines of Comic-Con ahead of the NBC show’s panel presentation. The sudden departure of series creator-showrunner Dan Harmon from the comedy … Read More »

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Entire ‘Community’ Cast Coming Back

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 4:18pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Chevy Chase, Community, Dan Harmon, Joel McHale
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EXCLUSIVE: The Greendale Community College gang will be coming back intact in the fall. I have learned that Sony Pictures TV, which produces Community, has picked up the options on all actors from the cult NBC comedy series … Read More »

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Dan Harmon & Steve Levitan React To ‘Community’s Critics Choice Win

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 8:32am PDTTags: Community, Dan Harmon, Steve Levitan
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Community Critics Choice TV AwardsCommunity creator and recently ousted showrunner Dan Harmon took to Twitter to react to the show’s surprise best comedy series win at last night Critics Choice TV Awards and indicated that he … Read More »

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Dan Harmon Reacts To His Dismissal As ‘Community’ Showrunner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 19, 2012 @ 7:47am PDTTags: Community, Dan Harmon
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Shortly after news broke that he will be replaced as showrunner on his NBC comedy Community by David Guarascio and Moses Port while he was becoming executive consultant, Dan Harmon took to his blog to clarify the circumstances around the switch. In brief: he says he was fired and doesn’t mince words about his employers. Here is his post:

HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know.  Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice – actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because they once created a show and cast my good friend Jeff Davis on it, so how bad can they be.

Related: David Guarascio And Moses Port To Run ‘Community’, Replacing Creator Dan Harmon

Why’d Sony want me gone?  I can’t answer that because I’ve been in as much contact with them as you have.  They literally haven’t called me since the season four pickup, so their reasons for replacing me are clearly none of my business.  Community is their property, I only own ten percent of it, and I kind of don’t want to hear what their complaints are because I’m sure it would hurt my feelings even more now that I’d be listening for free.

I do want to correct a couple points of spin, now that I’m free to do so:

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UPDATE: ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon Apologizes For Playing Chevy Chase’s VM

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 3, 2012 @ 6:34pm PDTTags: Chevy Chase, Community, Dan Harmon
Nellie Andreeva

On Saturday, I posted a story about the feud between Community creator Dan Harmon and co-star Chevy Chase, which included a recording of a profanity-laced Chase voicemail to Harmon, which Harmon had played at a show he does at a comic book store. This afternoon, Harmon addressed the incident. In a blog post, which I’ve reposted in its entirety below, Harmon apologized to Community fans for playing the voicemail publicly without Chase’s consent, something he now calls “a dumb, unclassy, inconsiderate move on my part.” However, he doesn’t address the rift between the two or the action that allegedly prompted the voicemail, Harmon doing a “Fuck you, Chevy” speech at Community‘s wrap party last month in front of Chase, his wife and his daughter after Chase had walked off the set of the show without filming his scene.

Related: Chevy Chase In Feud With ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon

Not That it Helps, But:

I’m really not supposed to be commenting on the situation, which I think is great advice, because anything I say will extend the story’s life and cause more fans discomfort. But as a guy who blogs or tweets every time he wipes his butt, hugs his cat or hurts his girlfriend, it’s conspicuously weird of me to say nothing at all about the giant fart with my name on it that you’ve been inhaling. It feels dishonest not to acknowledge it, it feels rude to the caring fans of the show, people who are tweeting me their concerns that I’ve jeopardized something they fight to protect, those are the sentiments that are [rightfully] the most painful because every choice I make, I try to make for the good of the show, and the show is not an expression of my ego or entitlement, it’s an expression of my desire to make strangers happy. When that’s not happening, when I’ve done something that hurts an audience, it’s always an accident. So I have to just acknowledge my mistake and apologize for it to the fans. Even the people that hate the show that are tweeting heckles at me are right, I’m a selfish baby and a rude asshole and not a person to trust with your feelings.

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Chevy Chase In Feud With ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday March 31, 2012 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Chevy Chase, Community, Dan Harmon
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UPDATE SUNDAY: Since I posted the story yesterday, several people working on the show have come forward to confirm Chase’s version of the events. One noted that the show indeed was “suffering through a ‘non-script day’” when Chase walked off. Another claimed that most of the cast and … Read More »

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EMMYS: Deadline/TVline Comedy Races

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday June 18, 2011 @ 8:42pm PDTTags: 30 Rock, Christopher Lloyd, Community, Dan Harmon, Emmy Lead Comedy Actor, Emmy Lead Comedy Actress, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Jenny Bicks, Joel McHale, Linda Wallem, Liz Brixius, Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem Nurse Jackie, Michael Schur, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie, Parks and Recreation, Raising Hope, Steve Carell, The Big Bang Theory, The Big C, The Middle, The Office, Ty Burrell

Here’s is the Deadline/TVline assessment of 2011 Emmy comedy races:

Deadline/TVline: 2011 Comedy Series Overview
Competition for Emmy nominations among this year’s Outstanding Comedy Series contestants is no laughing matter. The showdown between two 20th Century TV hits … Read More »

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EMMYS: ‘Community’s Dan Harmon

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 18, 2011 @ 5:25pm PDTTags: Dan Harmon, NBC Community

Dan Harmon, creator and showrunner for NBC’s Community, has a lengthy resume as a sketch comedy writer, performer, comic book author, and essayist on mythologist Joseph Campbell. He also was a founder (with Rob Schrab) of Channel 101 and co-creator of Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman … Read More »

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