What an embarrassment!
The No. 1 favorite show in TV Guide’s annual reader’s poll is . . . “Community,” the comedy NBC pulled off the air last week.
Some 300,000 people voted in the poll — which won the snarky sitcom a TV Guide cover in the issue due out later this week.
“Because we don’t get nominated for awards, this is our fans’ outlet to tell us that they care,” “Community” star Gillian Jacobs said in a statement. “They may not see us win Emmys or SAG Awards, but they do have the power in something like this to vote, and you see a lot of people care about our show.”
Of course, if the vote had been a fair sampling of opinion, the ratings for the 3-year-old series would be much higher, and NBC wouldn’t have yanked it off the air.
In recent years, the TV Guide poll has become a place where rabid fans go to voice their support for shows that are teetering on the brink.
Last year, fans voted the lightly watched “Supernatural” and “Chuck” Nos. 1 and 2 in the same poll.