'Community' TV Show Season 5 Premiere Spoilers from Dan Harmon
NBC comedy "Community" starring Joel McHale is set to return to the air in January. The show has been victim to cancelation rumors and staff changes many times, with creator Dan Harmon being fired, and now, asked to come back. See what Harmon has to say about why he was fired and why he came back, along with a few spoilers of the upcoming season.
Dan Harmon recently sat down for an interview with TV Guide where he spoke about why he thought he was fired from the show he created
"There was a whiteboard in the writers' room that had about 10 ideas we never got around to because they posed too difficult a creative challenge," Harmon says. "I was blown away to see [my replacements] were going down that list: doing an Inspector Spacetime convention; having Winger reconcile with his dad; the Pierce haunted house. It was a creative agenda I thought was the reason I got fired," Harmon said.
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The show creator also spoke to TV Guide about why he came back.
"If I did go back, the worst thing that could happen is a bad season of television," he says. "If I didn't go back, the worst thing that could happen is a lifetime of questions. I would have been miserable."
With the new season, Harmon is determined to make the show he originally wanted without letting the network hiring and firing drama play a role.
He wants to "not let the studio, network and the outside world get to me. I let it drive me crazy, and I let it inhibit the quality of my work," he says. "I knew coming into Season 5 that we were already off the schedule, and I had to wake up every morning at peace with the idea that no one might ever see what we were doing. It had to be about the craftsmanship. It had to be about making 13 episodes of television that I would love," Harmon said.
In summation, Harmon believes the success of the show comes down to story telling.
"We needed to get back to basics and we needed to tell a satisfying story about someone coming back to community college, having not been in it," he said to TV Guide.
