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Night Court sequel series in development

Amaris said:
Oh, that's right! I never really enjoyed the last season so much, and so don't remember a lot of it.
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Looking back on it now the last season seems kind of mailed in. When you think about the classic moments of the show, you certainly don't think very much of season 9. At least I don't
 
Herbert said:
Looking back on it now the last season seems kind of mailed in. When you think about the classic moments of the show, you certainly don't think very much of season 9. At least I don't
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Yep. I have season 9, but I barely watch it. My favorite stuff happens between seasons 3 through 7 anyway.
 
Not unusual for final seasons to be mediocre. Night Court is one. TNG is another. One final season that rocks though is Seinfeld, other than the crappy finale that is.
 
Herbert said:
Not unusual for final seasons to be mediocre.
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Indeed, it's safe to say it's more common than the alternative, since a mediocre season will lose viewers and will likely lead to the show's cancellation. Only a few shows get lucky enough to choose when to end and to do it on a high note.
 
Christopher said:
It would be hard to capture the same zany style without Reinhold Weege. And as much as the original show made it clear that Dan Fielding's womanizing was a despicable quality, it was still played for laughs more than would be acceptable today, so I'm not sure how they could approach Dan in a way that would work now.




It wasn't just his show. As goofy as Harry Stone was, he was still the relative straight man anchoring an ensemble of colorful weirdos. In many ways, Dan was more the standout character, along with Bull. You could probably find a number of good performers who could fill the anchor role and bring their own personality to it the way Anderson did.

Not to mention that a lot of the show's humor came from the wacky plaintiffs and defendants they dealt with, and the way the leads reacted to them. Though modern TV is more core cast-driven and less guest star-driven.
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Plus we are on a ST forum where we accept Quark so... I used to laugh as a kid but you know it is all fantasy and we know Dan though but the people in the show may not. Well, before they chose to see beyond it later. It's a hard line. Not trivializing sexual harassment. At all.
 
Laughing Dragon said:
Plus we are on a ST forum where we accept Quark so... I used to laugh as a kid but you know it is all fantasy and we know Dan though but the people in the show may not. Well, before they chose to see beyond it later. It's a hard line. Not trivializing sexual harassment. At all.
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Dan gets metoo-ed.

Fired from what ever job progress he's made in the last 40 years.

This is the only job he could get.

Back to Night Court.

(Jesus!)

Call it "Welcome Back Dan!" and the theme song is a variant of Welcome Back Cotter.
 
The Night Court revival is a go at NBC. It'll either be a mid-season replacement or part of next season's lineup.

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Harry's daughter, Abby Stone, will be played by Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory's Bernadette).

The original show survived multiple cast changes with just Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, and Richard Moll being in all 193 episodes.
 
Aragorn said:
The Night Court revival is a go at NBC. It'll either be a mid-season replacement or part of next season's lineup.

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Yes! I was wondering, with all of the recent passings, whether they'd keep to actually making it happen. Wonderful!
 
I am so stoked about this. My favorite sitcom of my teenage years is coming back and with legacy characters and actors.
 
I remember The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Didn't hold a candle to the original. Hopefully, Neo Night Court can do better.
 
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