Community (season 6), on Yahoo! Screen
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Community aired on NBC for five seasons before being cancelled (and really, it was kind of amazing that it lasted as long as it did, because in spite of critical praise and a devoted fan base, it never got great ratings). However, Yahoo! Screen then picked it up for a 13-episode sixth season. ...And I need to mention that in a season two episode, Abed had a line "six seasons and a movie" (referring to his hopes for The Cape), which Community's fan base turned into a rallying cry for this show. Over the years, it often seemed incredibly unlikely that Community would last that long, but here we are. Season six. (Note: the following review assumes you are aware of characters and events from the first five seasons.)

Troy is still gone, and this season Shirley is also absent, having taken a job elsewhere. (We do see her briefly, in the season premiere's end tag, and in some imagined scenes in the season finale.) We also won't see either Professor Hickey or Professor Duncan this season. However, a couple of new characters join the Save Greendale committee: an efficiency consultant named Francesca "Frankie" Dart (Paget Brewster), and an inventor named Elroy Patashnik (Keith David, who previously appeared on "The Cape"), who becomes Greendale's new IT guy. (Frankie and Elroy are often amusingly and understandably confused by references to the many oddities of the previous seasons.) Jeff is still teaching a class. Britta moves in with Annie and Abed. And she starts bartending at a speakeasy that's in the school's basement, or something. And we see her parents, in a couple of episodes. And I'm not sure if Abed is still dating Rachel, but we don't see her, anyway. And lots of other random stuff happens, including some brilliant end tags. As always, the show remains hilarious and meta and self-aware and awesome. In the finale, all the characters try to imagine a seventh season of the show (as per Abed's comparing their lives to a TV show). And in the end, a few characters leave, for various reasons. Which is, of course, bittersweet for everyone, especially Jeff (who has come to dearly love all his friends, as well as fearing that he'll never be able to leave Greendale, himself).

Anyway... there was no seventh season. (Unfortunately, it seems Yahoo! lost a lot of money on this one, which helped lead to the end of Yahoo! Screen.) But the season six finale works very well as a series finale. (Still have my fingers crossed for a movie, though. Someday.)