Community Renewed For Sixth Season

We'll try to keep this brief, mostly so we don't electrify ourselves on account of all the TEARS OF JOY on the keyboard - beloved cult sitcom Community has been renewed for a sixth season. That's right - Yahoo saved Greendale.

Not a crappy season-four imitation Greendale either - creator Dan Harmon, the full season five cast, and veteran showrunners Chris McKenna, Russ Krasnoff and Gary Foster are all back for the final academic year at everyone's favourite terrible community college.

The show has been renewed for a 13-episode run to round out its small-screen life, which should come as incredibly pleasing news to anyone who felt slightly empty at the teasingly unresolved nature of its fifth season.

“I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo,” Harmon said in a statement. “I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online. I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, Big Bang Theory. Look out, Bang Bus!”

Community star Joel McHale was brief on Twitter, but elaborated on his gratitude to fans - and curse words - in a statement of his own: “'The reports of our cancelation have been greatly exaggerated.' —Mark Twain (The other version of this quote has been wrong for years). # SixSeasonsAndaMovie is real. Thank you Sony. Thank you Yahoo. Thank you Dan Harmon. And thank you to the greatest f%$#ing fans in the history of the human race. It's the Internet. We can swear now.”

Co-star Gillian Jacobs was similarly succinct:

The internet was sent into a spiral of despair following its cancellation on TV-land D-Day back in May, with Community fans holding fast to the hope that maybe the show would reach its long-stated goal of completing six seasons (and a movie) with help from an online platform such as Netflix or Amazon.

Although Harmon was variably pessimistic and enthusiastic about the prospects of the show's smoking wick being re-ignited - "I will confess ... that when Sony called me on Friday with the [cancellation] news, there was brief discussion at the end of the call about the concept of the show living elsewhere, and I was definitely in the 'eh' column," he wrote at the time - at the core of things, his reticence was less with his creative baby living on than it was with the inevitable way fans would be treated in the process.

"If you want to know the God's honest truth, part of my 'eh' was coming from the unsettling thought of your passion for campaigns being once again exploited by this rather unfair, somewhat backward system, one that now treats you like it's your responsibility to keep a show alive, like a corporation is doing you a favor by feeding you low grade opiate through a regulated tube," he wrote, conceding that he would not "be standing in the way".

It's a good thing, too, because now that it's in Yahoo's hands, it doesn't seem like the online giant will be doing that, either.

“Yahoo is all about connecting the best creators to the audiences who love their work,” Yahoo CMO Kathy Savitt said in a statement. “Community has an incredibly passionate and loyal fan base who have fought hard to keep this amazing show alive. We couldn't be more excited to work with Dan, Joel, and the entire cast, as well as Sony, to deliver a great season six.”

Prepare to bear down for mid-terms once more, Human Beings, and GO, GREENDALE!