‘Community’ booster Ken Jeong longs for movie version

Community cast member Ken Jeong has a new gig on ABC but he’d be glad to see the comedy stay alive.

Yahoo gave the canceled NBC sitcom a sixth season that rolled out this spring, but whether there’s more to come is unclear. In a statement on Tuesday, Yahoo said it and producer Sony Television continue to discuss “future opportunities”.

Jeong, taking part in a Q&A session with TV critics to promote his new family comedy Dr Ken, premiering on October 2 on ABC, said he was “completely in the dark” about the status of Community.

But he would “love to do a movie”, he said, and showered his co-stars with gratitude.

They made him “the actor that I am today. I wouldn’t be here as a lead on my own show,” Jeong said.

Joel McHale, part of the Community cast, offered an optimistic tweet on Tuesday: “Easy sugar-bear, Community is not canceled.”