Yesterday afternoon NBC announced that it was giving a full season order to comedies 'Community' and 'Mercy' as well as freshman drama 'Mercy'. The back-nine order for 'Community' doesn't surprise me at all. 'Community' has held its own in a tough Thursday time-slot and fits in nicely with NBC's "Comedy Night Done Right". 'Parks & Recreation' has improved in ratings and quality from last year so I fully expected it to get a full season order from the beginning. Plus, even if it sucked NBC probably still would have picked it up because they don't want to screw up their relationship with Greg Daniels, who is also the creator of NBC's 'The Office'.
The surprise for me was 'Mercy'. The show pulls in decent ratings (for NBC) but in terms of quality it doesn't seem to be anything special.
Angela Bromstad, NBC President of Prime-time Entertainment, said of the announcement: "we're confident [it] can be a strong player for NBC". In my opinion, that's code for "'Mercy' is cheaper to produce than other freshman medical show, 'Trauma', and we can't cancel it because we have nothing else to put on the air".
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