NBC Withholds ‘Community’ From Viewers Until Further Notice

NBC recently announced that Community  will not premiere on Oct. 19 as planned, reports TVLine.

 “Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in [the] A18-49 [demographic] – we’ve decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows…,” NBC said in a statement issued Monday. 

According to NBC’s thinking, the new fall shows are doing so well that the network would rather keep Community on stand-by to use when one of their new shows stops working. This seems backwards –  Community fans are being punished for already liking a great show, and they won’t get it back until a different NBC shows fails?

It makes sense strategically, but doesn’t seem fair. We guess Community fans will have to make do with Grimm re-runs for now.