Modified On February 6, 2009
Doesn’t look good. (By that we mean that it looks like it’s not returning… some folks might interpret “Doesn’t look good” to mean that it is returning, so we must clarify.)
The auditions haven’t been announced on the NBC website. (And if they want to hold auditions in bitterly cold temperatures and freeze an aspiring comic or two, in places like Toronto or New York, they had better step on it!)
The forum on the NBC site (where shut-ins and stalkers and pre-teens get to ruminate on the show) has moved the LCS forum to The Vault, which is the chat-board ghetto that contains all fora dedicated to cancelled shows. (Or shows that are on hiatus… or temporarily suspended… or just not on the schedule at the moment.)
Back in April of last year, we posted that the network was telling advertisers at the upfronts that the show would return on the Summer ’09 schedule. That seems unlikely.
We called the offices of Barry Katz (one of the producers of the show) and the voice on the other end of the line said, “I don’t think it’s continuing,” then “I don’t know… I don’t know.” Then we got switched to the offices of Peter Engel (one of the other producers of the show), and all we heard was a garbled, digitized version of the theme song from Saved By The Bell and an outgoing message asking us to leave a message. Which we did. The moment we hear from them, we’ll let you know.