Community - Contracts are up at the end of the month

Gillian Jacobs and Joel McHale were in Monte Carlo to promote Community.

It was their first appearance at the Festival de télévision de Monte Carlo (Joel McHale was supposed to come last year but had to cancel), because it took a while for Community to catch on in France, mostly because it was not on the air until December 2012 on Numéro 23 (a small channel). Subsequently, the first three seasons have aired, seasons 1 & 2 were released on DVD in September 2013 and season 3 in January 2014.

So now that Community has officially reached these shores, they can come and talk about it. They had been announced at the festival before NBC pulled a Britta on the show, but still, they were here to talk about their recently-"cancelled" show.

Apparently Gillian and Joel are really nice (duh doy!) and funny, friendly outside of the interviews and cheeky when they're being questioned, they bounce off the questions, ask questions to one another, do five jokes amidst an answer, etc.



They don't know much about the renewal, other than what's been reported about Sony and Hulu having talks, but they said something of which it is good to be aware: if Hulu really wants to get on the map for original series, they will have to act now by extending the contracts of the cast of Community, because they expire on June 30.

It would get tougher to put the cast together afterwards, and I'm sure we all want the Study Group around the table together instead of having each actor filming his scenes for a few days without the rest of the group, or having 'centrics'. By extending the contracts, Hulu doesn't have to order a sixth season immediately. Contracts have been extended in the past without studios committing to production afterwards, they did so because they wanted to explore the idea.

But it would show that Hulu is serious about it, and they should be if they really want to produce original content and if Community really is one of their top-streaming shows (like Arrested Development was on Netflix), that won Hulu's own Best In Show in 2012 and 2013 — and it finished in third place in 2014, losing against Hannibal, which went on to eat Game of Thrones in the final - and technically it was the gas leak season of Community that was in the running).

Speaking of Alison Brie on the internet, on August 22 Netflix will release a 12-episode animated comedy series called BoJack Boseman, with Will Arnett in the titular role of a has-been horse actor (in a 90s hit show called Horsin' Around) trying to make a comeback :



Also lending his voice to the show is Aaron Paul, playing a guy named Todd (!), Amy Sedaris plays BoJack's agent, Paul F. Tompkins is Mr. Peanutbutter (the dog) and Alison Brie is Mr. Peanutbutter's girlfriend.



Source : Daily Mars.