ROBERT GREENBLATT: Well, I think we’re going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we’d ultimately like, as we go forward. And Community is a show that has been always on the bubble, but we decided to bring it back again and see what a fourth season will do for us. The reason that we did 13 episodes of that, and a couple of our other shows, is because we really wanted to get more comedies on the schedule, and we picked up a number of new comedies for the Fall and mid-season. We just laid out the number of episodes we would need of things, in order to get new shows on, and thought, “Let’s do shorter seasons of these shows,” which isn’t to say that we couldn’t decide, at some point, to extend those seasons longer.
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