Apparently ABC wants to carry it next year.
Personally, I got so fed up with all the scheduling fits and starts over the past couple of years, I'd pretty much made my peace with seeing NBC wrap it up this year. Maybe if ABC can handle it better... It's not as if they have anything else good going in the way of sitcoms.
Janus Films and The Criterion Collection will be releasing The Red Balloon (as part of a double feature with White Mane) on DVD April 29th. The bub and I, however, have already enjoyed it several times on the PC via Netflix's Watch it Now, and he is just as enchanted with it as I was, seeing it for the first (and only, before now) time as an elementary school student.
In fact, we're already considering it a good candidate for a Halloween costume -- just a tight grey turtleneck sweater and pants, brown shoes, a little old schoolbag, and a big red balloon on some kind of wire. Tres facile, non?
I guess at least some of the adults would make the connection...
