With the recent news that Wendi McLendon-Covey signed a deal to return to a potential tenth season of ABC’s The Goldbergs, making the renewal of one of the network’s most popular shows more likely and the recent release of Reno 911! Defunded on Roku on February 25, 2022, the comedian has been keeping busy unlike the fictional cops of the 89512. While the real police may have never been defunded, the deputies of the Reno Sheriffs Department indeed were! In an interview with Geek Girl Authority, McLendon-Covey, the actor who plays Deputy Clementine Johnson on Reno 911!, revealed the events depicted in the most recent season, Reno 911! Defunded, was not exactly an act.
McLendon-Covey recounts in the interview that the most recent season of Reno 911! was filmed in 2020 for the streaming service Quibi. Quibi commissioned the Reno deputies to produce short-format episodes for their new service, and the first season order was completed just before the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. When those episodes began to debut on Quibi in April 2020, Quibi ordered another season of Reno 911! to be produced over two weeks. McLendon-Covey explained that she was balancing the filming of The Goldbergs with her time on the Reno 911! set. However, after only a few days of filming Reno 911!, the cast and crew got the kind of news you don’t want to hear when you’re producing a show for a streaming service: Quibi had gone under.
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And indeed, the episodes were subsequently picked up by the Roku streaming service, where they were adapted to a more traditional half-hour format and released as the eleven-episode season Reno 911! Defunded in late February 2022. Roku also provided a new home for the previous season of Reno 911!. Fans can now stream both of the seasons originally commissioned for Quibi for free on Roku.
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However, if you want to watch all the latest antics from the Reno deputies, you’ll need a subscription to Paramount+ too. Not only are the original six seasons of Reno 911! available for streaming through the service, but there’s also the most recent movie, Reno 911!: The Search for QAnon that was released in late December 2021.
However, the movie was released before Reno 911! Defunded, it was filmed afterward, a fact made evident by a reference in dialogue to the events of January 6, 2021, made by Deputy Travis Junior (Robert Ben Garant) early in the film. And McLendon-Covey makes no apologies for the subject matter: “Come on, look. It’s QAnon. People that thought JFK Jr. was going to come back and say hello to everybody in Dallas, you deserve to be made fun of.”
