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TV Bits: ‘Community’ Gets Benched, Plus: ‘Mad Men’, ‘Luck’, ‘Weeds’, ‘House of Lies’, and More (slashfilm)

[1] There's plenty of good stuff in today's TV Bits, including new trailers
for HBO's Luck and Showtime's House of Lies, which I'm hoping will help the
one bit of really bad news go down a bit easier: NBC's benching its highly
praised but under-watched Community. After the jump: NBC puts Community on
hiatus and picks up new show Legends HBO's Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman and
Nick Nolte, gets a trailer Showrunner Matthew Weiner reveals how he wants
AMC's Mad Men to end Showtime renews Weeds and drops a teaser for House of
Lies First, let's get the bad news over with. Perhaps the biggest news (at
least for us pop culture nerds) to come out of NBC's recent announcement of
its mid-season lineup is the benching of Community, which has always struggled
ratings-wise despite getting glowing reviews. The network stresses that the
comedy is not cancelled and will be back on air soon, with the remaining
episodes of the current third season airing sometime next year -- but still,
this does not bode well for the show's future. Replacing Community in its
Thursdays 8 PM timeslot will be 30 Rock, which has been ...

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