Dan Harmon to Return as Showrunner for Fifth Season of NBC's COMMUNITY

Dan Harmon is returning as executive producer/showrunner for the NBC comedy "Community." Chris McKenna is also returning as executive producer.

In May, NBC ordered a fifth season of the Sony Pictures Television-produced "Community." No debut date for the new season has been announced.

Community always seems to find itself close to the cutting room floor each year. This season, the network pushed the premiere date back more often than the Greendale study group nearly destroyed their Community college's campus. This season opened to big ratings - and then dropped to the series' lowest. Since then, its weekly numbers have been nearly unpredictable, with ratings constantly fluctuating.

In the fall, Chevy Chase also walked off the set - and in effect, the show. He will not return for the show's fifth season.

"Community" was created by Dan Harmon ("The Sarah Silverman Program") who serves as executive consultant. Russ Krasnoff ("The Soloist") is executive producer, along with Gary Foster ("Sleepless in Seattle"), Moses Port and David Guarascio ("Happy Endings"). Tristram Shapeero ("Nurse Jackie") is executive producer/director. The series is a Krasnoff Foster Entertainment production, in association with Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television.