Yvette Nicole Brown has called Community co-creator Dan Harmon's return to the show a "monumental" moment in television history.

Harmon was rehired by NBC in June, a year after he was fired from the series amid much controversy.

Brown - who plays Shirley in Community - has since told ET Online that she was thrilled that Harmon had been invited back to the series he created.

"It was like a one-two punch. Dan coming back is precedent-setting," she declared. "I don't think, in television, there's ever been someone brought back after the production company has let them go. That's monumental."

The actress went on to say: "[Dan's rehiring] was a big shock, but a source of real joy - even more than the show coming back, to some degree. But I want to say this, I'm really grateful to David [Guarascio] and Moses [Port] as well. We wouldn't have gotten a fifth season if they didn't carry us through the fourth.

"That needs to be said because we're all so excited for Dan's return, but I don't want to poo-poo the men who carried us through the season when we couldn't have Dan."

Brown went on to express hopes that Community's fifth season will explore Shirley's family.

"I would love to meet Shirley's sister. There were a couple of lines about them not having a good relationship in the first season," she said. "We've met her kids and her husband, but I'd like to see someone who comes from the same stock as Shirley.

"Her sister or her mother or her dad are the people who know who Shirley really is at her core, so we'd really get to see how much of this sunny demeanor is who she really is and how much of it is an act that she's putting on."

It was previously reported that Donald Glover will only appear in five episodes of Community this coming season, in order to focus on his music career.

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