Bad News Community Fans: NBC has decided to pull the plug on the October 19 debut of the fourth season of Community (Whitney too) and has not scheduled a new premiere date at this time. “Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in A18-49 – we’ve decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are scheduled Monday through Wednesday,” explained NBC in a statement, adding, “Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week.” (Photo via Gawker) source
Reddit user Britta-Bot has set to work recreating “Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne”, the 8-bit title featured on NBC sitcom Community’s season finale. While the title is in it’s early stages, featuring little more than a handful of maps and characters seen on the show, Britta-Bot plans to introduce health and inventory systems, new maps, and more in future releases. Community fans, this is definitely something worth checking in on from time to time. (thanks to LaughterKey for the tip) source
We are unashamedly addicted to TV. More importantly, we think it’s important to pay attention to what TV execs do to their lineups; it’s a vicious cycle, our media. They tell us what to watch and we watch it (and then blog about it). Here’s what you need to know about this fall’s NBC schedule, fellow TV nerds:
» Switching networks for a sec: We’d also like to point out that true American staple “CSI: Miami” has been cancelled by CBS, after a surprisingly fast-moving decade on the air. David Caruso’s gravy train just sailed away. *sigh*
Exclamation points!!!
A certain corner of the internet, largely on Tumblr and Twitter, just had a gasm.
Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, is known in the rap world for his smart lyrics that hide obscure pop culture references. In “Eat Your Vegetables,” a just-released track, he isn’t so subtle. The first verse ends with “Man I die for my hood, Trayvon.” Rap songs are time capsules, and with a verse like that, “Vegetables” is no exception. But that doesn’t mean Gambino’s afraid of throwing a joke into the tune. Example:
“(Like when someone is like, ‘what happened to Chris?’ And you turn around and there’s a fat guy that kind of looks like Chris And you like, “oh shit” and laughing and shit)”
No word yet if there’s a new album on the way; “Camp” only dropped in November. — Sami @ SFB
Pitchfork tears apart Childish Gambino: A few weeks ago, we noted how weird it was that Pitchfork basically ignored Donald Glover’s turn as Childish Gambino — to the point where if you only read Pitchfork, you’d be blissfully unaware that the “Community” star was a rapper. We suggested that what was likely to happen was that they would bury the review a few weeks later and rip the album apart. Hence, this review. 1.6. Accusations of “hashtag rap.” Suggestions that he’s only inspired by Kanye. Sounds about right. The words would’ve sounded braver if they had reviewed it the day after it came out, like they did with Lulu.
What’s nice about Tumblr at this moment is what was nice about Twitter in mid-2007:
There’s a neat sense of community among those of us on Tumblr at this very early stage (well, it’s been around since 2007 but only recently has it started to take off). There’s only a handful of journalists on Tumblr who seriously use it for everyday purposes, and most of us know each other (for instance, I know soupsoup, rubenfeld, pantslessprogressive, apsies and a few others — and most of them know each other, and most of the larger networks on Tumblr like ABC World News and NBC Local follow us as well). And as long as you’re willing to contribute to the conversation in a serious way, we’re very accepting of new people with interesting, independent voices, ideas and perspectives.
I dread the day that the social marketers (sorry, “social media experts”) take over Tumblr and ruin this nice sense of community as they’ve done with Twitter and Facebook. I guess we’ll all go to Posterous then.
I’ve noticed the same thing with Twitter. There was a serious sense of diminishing returns with that site, and it seemed clear around early 2010. It was easy to find cool people when I started the blog in 2009. Now, it’s just impossible to have a cool conversation with people because everyone’s trying to advertise themselves rather than do cool things. That’s why Tumblr’s been such a great outlet – it works better as a conversation than a promotional tool. If you just throw links on Tumblr, you’re doing it wrong. But with Twitter, it just feels like you’re seeing more broadcasting than conversation, which is a shame, because it’s the conversation that made it worthwhile. With Tumblr, that sort of low-barrier entry just doesn’t work very well.
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