News –19.MAY.13

COMMUNITY GETS SEASON 5

It really couldn’t have been a more down to the wire decision, but NBC have decided to renew sitcom Community for a fifth season. It’s been quite a year for the show, with actor Chevy Chase and ex-show-runner and creator Dan Harmon leaving after quite a dispute. Perhaps because of this, the show continued to have low ratings this year, but it didn’t look so bad compared to the rest of NBC’s struggling schedule (including The Office and 30 Rock). Despite all of this, yesterday (Friday 10th May) Community was renewed for a fifth 13-episode season. Just minutes after the announcement, US fans trended #LongLiveCommunity on social networking site Twitter.
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DAN HARMON COULD RETURN TO COMMUNITY

While on the subject, a new report has suggested series creator Dan Harmon could potentially return to his position of show-runner for Community. I wouldn’t get too excited yet, as no official news has been announced, but www.deadline.com speculates about the possibilities of his return. Now that season 4 has ended, emotions have calmed down between Harmon and Chase (who left this year), so there is certainly a good chance, especially if this is Community’s final season (which hasn’t been announced, but is pretty likely). Deadline are a good source of reliable information, so their information must be coming from someone in-the-know, but for now it’s just a wait and see moment.
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STAR WARS EPISODE VII FILMED IN UK

Star Wars producer LucasFilm says the latest instalment is to be made in the UK. The seventh movie in the series is due to start production next year, and the release date is scheduled to be 2015. “Star Wars is finally going back to its roots, where it started all those years ago in 1976”, says actor Warwick Davis who played an Ewok in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. LucasFilm has not confirmed exactly where the film is going to be shot, but fan website JediNews has speculated that Pinewood Studios may be one of their sites. The Sun also reported that scenes would be shot in the Highlands and the Isle of Skye.
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EMERGENCY IN SPACE

On the 8th May 2013, two astronauts living and working on the international space station (ISS) reported to ground control about seeing flakes flying from part of the craft that NASA later discovered was an ammonia leak on board the space craft. The ground control then went in to hyperactivity and managed to organise a space walk within 3 days and on 11th May, 2 astronauts headed out on a space walk to fix the problem which was eventually solved after 4½ hours.

OKAY GLASS…

Google’s brand new product to be released to the market at the end of the year has been announced as a pair of glasses...
These glasses have a special feature though... They not only include changeable lenses, but a computer system built into the glasses allowing the user to do things such as take a photo or search for something online by using the trigger phrase 'okay glass'. Quite remarkable!