The TNT adaptation of that short story was pretty bad, but I still think about it sometimes.

In modern TV, it's pretty easy to tell: Look for audience laughter. Now that How I Met Your Mother is dead, nobody's using a laugh track, and it was the only show using the hybrid style (which shot on multiple cameras on standing sets but also used single cameras for more ambitious sequences). So if you hear an…

There can BE only one quirky comedy written and created by women and set in Brooklyn!

But to just say, "Community is completely and totally dead!" or "Community has a great shot at coming back!" would both be inaccurate. This article isn't an opinion piece. It's the facts on the ground.

I assure you it has aired. (Twice now.)

In the past, it's generally maintained The Simpsons' numbers when it's been in that slot. Granted, if the network puts it at 7:30 for years and years, it will probably run out of room. But I suspect it will be back in one of the primo slots soon enough.

LInked to in the article.

Those two clauses don't contradict each other in any way, though? Community's run was terrific, both in length and in quality. And it's all the more impressive it accumulated that long and solid of a run when considering that it was almost canceled several times.

I know! That's why I tried to make the headline a question. I was honestly asking it. But I think a lot of people read it as a statement.

The Voice is one of TV's top 10 shows.

Sports and reality are the big ratings drivers of the present broadcast world, and NBC has both Sunday Night Football and The Voice. They also had the Olympics this year, but they would have been in first even if you removed their Olympics numbers.

Sure. You can reframe the argument that way. I mean, the Ironsides of the world are probably always going to be canceled. But Ironside only got three or four episodes under its belt. Nobody really cared about it. It used to be that if you got to three seasons, you were practically guaranteed a fourth and fifth. I…

Without the previous seasons, Netflix is unlikely to produce a new season. And that deal with Hulu doesn't expire for several years.

Well, you can't fight city hall.

NBC is in first place.

Well, that wasn't really analogous. Buffy was always going to continue. It was just a question of which network would make it a better deal, and that ended up being UPN.

As I said in the article, we'll always have cancellations. But we're moving toward a world where there are fewer of them for shows that devoted cult fanbases care about.

Not really? I mean, clearly the answer to the question in that headline is "Not yet!" but the article wasn't saying "Cancellation is over! Whee!" It was saying that cancellation as a threat will become increasingly less powerful over time and speculating if we'd reached that tipping point yet. It was not about NOW. It…

This is really not the same thing, because resurrecting a canceled show is far harder than keeping a show on the bubble alive. I stand by every word of that original article.

What I should have made more clear in my initial piece was that "fear of cancellation" drops the younger the show is. A critically acclaimed show in its first season with low ratings is a much safer bet for renewal now than a critically acclaimed show in its fifth.