“All of our contracts were up after six years”. Unfortunately, according to McHale, the cast’s contracts were up – and because most of the show’s regulars have seen their profiles rise significantly since it debuted in 2009, inking new deals would have been prohibitively expensive. So you’re not going to be able to get Alison Brie or Gillian Jacobs at a normal television salary anymore. “There is just not enough money to be able to pay for the show”, McHale explained.
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But the good news is that the prophecy of “Six Seasons and a Movie” can still be fulfilled. A seventh season of Community will definitely not.
Yahoo! has yet to share viewership numbers for the much-hyped sixth season of Community, so no one knows how popular the latest batch of episodes really were for the website. Yahoo swooped in and renewed the comedy from Dan Harmon. Danny Pudi is developing a comedy with Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island production banner, and Donald Glover, who left the show before season five, has pilot “Altanta” set up at FX.
“I really do think there’ll be a movie”, McHale said to Esquire in a separate interview recently. In addition, Yvette Nicole Brown exited as a series regular and Paget Brewster and Keith David were added. “They wanted to turn around and do a movie immediately, and Yahoo can get it done”. Yahoo was so supportive that I completely self-destructed in season 6. They’re like the NSA.
But as McHale told Metro Weekly, everybody’s scattered to the wind.
In addition to Community, Yahoo unveiled original series Sin City Saints and Other Space earlier this year. Ken star Ken Jeong, but not too busy for a movie, right?
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The Soup airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET on E! and The Comment Section, from executive producer McHale, premieres on Friday, August 7 at 10:30 p.m. on E!
