Also all the Office regulars save BJ Novak have signed new contracts.

With Parks I see them doing what they're doing with 30 Rock this year – they'll get a fifth season, and then possibly they'll announce a sixth short season afterwards. They likely want to keep Schur and Poehler on board with the studio, just as they want to appease Fey, so they'll probably allow them to take Parks out…

You know, they'd be entirely justified from a business standpoint just canceling them outright.

Actually, Greg Daniels might be back at the helm of The Office. It looks like NBC ultimately passed on Friday Night Dinner, and the deal apparently was that if they pass on that, he and the FND staff will slide over to The Office.

Honestly, both Animal Practice and Go On sound like they have potential. If they end up being quirky, workplace sitcoms they'd be a pretty good fit for NBC's current lineup, though whether that's a good thing from a business perspective is a solid question.

So any word on why Friday Night Dinner didn't get picked up? That was the one NBC pilot I was really pumping for mostly because it had Greg Daniels helming it, plus Alison Janney.

There's a lot of speculation they may basically be trying a cable model – year-round schedules, half-seasons, running shows straight through w/out repeats…

I hope they pick up Greg Daniels' Friday Night Dinner – that's the only pilot I'm really looking forward to seeing, although Deadline makes it sound like its unlikely at this point.

OK, so while it wouldn't be AVClub without people being snarky, nearly all network comedies sound hokey as hell on paper.

OK – so I actually can see a lot of logic to this, if they go this route.

I wouldn't be surprised to see both cancelled, though could also both be renewed. Like I said, I have no idea how accurate these rumors tend to be.

Also, OT, but anybody see the rumors that Cougar Town might move to TBS?

Deadline says that as far as comedies go, NBC is also likely to pick up The New Normal, 1600 Penn, and Guys with Kids (a multicam). Greg Daniels' Friday Night Dinner (the only one I really want to see) seems unlikely. Oh, and Whitney is probably being cancelled.

They've been downplaying that since the first season. Early on, they made it seem like Leslie got the position because of her mother, but by Season 2 they transitioned to making Leslie hyper-accomplished in her own right.

Blame Canada.

I just take it as the characters breaking the fourth wall – not that there is actually a documentary film crew following them around. As it is, they break the rules of documentary film making repeatedly – as in, camera angles will shift in ways that would expose a film crew if one were actually there.

What? Reich? I know two Jewish people with the surname Reich. It's just a German word that means "Nation," "Realm," or "Empire." Unlike terms like "Aryan" or symbols like the Swastika, there isn't much of a taboo over it. Germans still refer to the Roman Empire for example as "Römisches Reich" or France as…

I wouldn't grade it that low, but I agree – I loved last year's Queen of Jordan episode and this one was nowhere near as good.

The problem with this is that Wall-E, Up, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, and Toy Story 2 could all plausibly claim to be the best. And Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and A Bug's Life are all only slightly behind.

Slightly apropos of nothing, several people have pointed out that Sandra Lee as First Lady is shockingly plausible.