Dan Harmon returns; series joins Yahoo originals Other Space and Sin City Saints.

NBC's decision to cancel its cult-hit comedy series Community a couple of months ago didn't enrage or depress legions of fans, mostly because they assumed the show was far from dead. Unlike the TV landscape of even a few years ago, streaming services—and their rabid competition for unique, quality content—have amped up negotiations for beloved, canceled series (evidenced by Netflix's deal to air new episodes of Arrested Development in 2013).

Since then, platforms like Hulu, Xbox Live, and Amazon have begun jostling for series of their own, but none of them managed to make the phrase "six seasons and a movie" come closer to reality. That honor instead belongs to Yahoo, who signed a deal with Sony Pictures Television on Monday to produce Community's next (and possibly final) 13-episode season. Fans, breathe easy: off-kilter series creator Dan Harmon will serve as its showrunner.

“I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online," Harmon said in a statement (assumedly joking, since over-the-air and cable viewership numbers still soundly beat streaming views on average). "I vow to dominate our new competition. Rest easy, Big Bang Theory. Look out, Bang Bus!"

No date has yet been attached to Community's sixth season premiere; the report is so preliminary, in fact, that longtime executive producer Chris McKenna has yet to ink a contract for the season. Still, the move sees Yahoo moving far beyond its small-scale video-streaming efforts of years past, which were mostly notable for securing the streaming rights to Saturday Night Live's archives. Yahoo may hope to tie Community's debut close to the launch of its two other impending original TV series—Other Space, produced by Freaks & Geeks co-creator Paul Feig, and Sin City Saints, created by CW veteran Mike Tollin—set to debut by the end of 2015.

Best of all, Yahoo confirmed that Community's current cast will return in its entirety. That had been cast into doubt when Gillian Jacobs landed a role on HBO's Girls a few weeks ago. The only holdouts are regular guest star John Oliver (himself another recent HBO hire) and former full-timer Donald Glover (who left in the middle of Community's fifth season). Series star Joel McHale pointed to one major content change fans can expect from a streaming version of Community: "Thank you to the greatest f%$#ing fans in the history of the human race. It’s the Internet. We can swear now."