, which is distributed by Sony TV,, which starred Alison Brie, Donald Glover, John Oliver, Joel McHale, Ken Jeong, Jonathan Banks, as well as Gillian Jacobs and Chevy Chase, is being taken out by the studio in the coming weeks.
Exclusive global rights to all six seasons, which initially ran on NBC from 2009, before moving to Yahoo! Screen, are available from May 2021 with both streaming and linear rights available. The show, which is based on Harmon’s own experience at community college, currently airs on SVOD on Hulu in the U.S. and via Amazon in Canada, Australia and the UK and Netflix in Ireland and New Zealand as well as on a number of SVOD services such as C4-backed All4 and Australia’s Stan.
Sony likely will be hoping that the show, which consists of 110 episodes, can attract attention at a time when the rights to classic scripted comedies from the past couple of decades is at an all-time high. HBO Max recently won the rights to streamfrom next spring, while the WarnerMedia service is thought to have paid around $425M for Friends and NBCUniversal paid north of $500M forfrom Sony Pictures Television, which will be looking a similarly off-the-wall comedy likeWarner Bros.
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