Comedy Central Lands ‘Community’ Off-Net Rights

Greendale Community College’s most famous study group will have a new member beginning in 2013 as Comedy Central has reached a multi-year deal with Sony Picture Television to license NBC sitcom Community, it was announced today by David Bernath, executive vice president, program strategy and multiplatform programming for Comedy Central, and John Weiser, president, US distribution for Sony Pictures Television. The all-comedy channel will launch the series with three seasons beginning in the fall of 2013.

Currently in its third season on NBC, Community stars Joel McHale as a fast-talking lawyer whose degree has been revoked and who now attends Greendale Community College sitting at the center of a study group composed of a band of misfits who, adventure-by-adventure, learn more about themselves than their course work.

Community is a Krasnoff Foster Entertainment, Harmonious Claptrap, Russo Brothers, Universal Media Studios production, in association with Sony Pictures Television. Russ Krasnoff, Dan Harmon, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Garrett Donovan, Neil Goldman and Gary Foster serve as executive producers.