‘Night Court’ Canceled By NBC After 3 Seasons

[opus]

Ended on a cliffhanger. I wonder if someone will save it.

https://deadline.com/2025/05/night-c...bc-1236391772/

[icecream]

It was a stupid cliffhanger. If Abby really had a husband, that would have come out during her long engagement to another fiance in season 1.

[staytuned]

Although I've never cared about this remake, I do have a question that bothers me a little.

If Abby Stone "claims" that she is supposed to be the "daughter" of Harry T. Stone, then how come she never pulled pranks on her co-workers, does magic tricks or have a huge strange obsession with the late singer Mel Torme?

Despite both of them wearing sneakers under their judge robe, it seems to me that Abby was never like her dad at all.

[Alan Brady's Hair]

or have a huge strange obsession with the late singer Mel Torme?

Cyndi Lauper would have been a good obsession for Abby.

I watched the first season, lost interest during the second. Too much emphasis on narrative, not enough emphasis on laughs. During the time I was watching, there was a curious lack of time spent at the judge's bench, with the whole cast trading one-liners.

[staytuned]

Originally Posted by Alan Brady's Hair

Cyndi Lauper would have been a good obsession for Abby.

I'm assuming Melissa Rauch has never heard of Mel Torme, nor listened or cared about his music that much.

[Adamantium]

I liked this show but it was never super funny to me. I mostly watched it because I love the original, and it was nice to see Dan Fielding at this stage in his life and his relationship to Abby.

However, I figured this might be the last season. Especially with the cancellations of two other short-lived revivals, That '90s Show and Frasier, both of which I watched, liked, but didn't find either all that funny. They're just nice bonus episodes to add to the end of their original series whenever I do a binge.

However again, just like That '90s Show, Night Court ended on a cliffhanger, which is really bugging me. Why would the people making the show end it on a cliffhanger? They had to know they were an on the bubble show. Really unless you're Friends or a massive hit like that, you shouldn't do cliffhanger season finales. There's a 50/50 chance that's your final episode, and THAT'S how you're going to treat your audience? Shameful!

[Adamantium]

Originally Posted by icecream

It was a stupid cliffhanger. If Abby really had a husband, that would have come out during her long engagement to another fiance in season 1.

I had binged the last five episodes today before finding out the show was now cancelled. When it had that cliffhanger, in the moment, I totally forgot she was engaged in the first season. She had made a big deal about her dad not being at her wedding. Now, we find out she already had a husband? I wonder what the writers' plan was for that storyline. Because as it stands, it makes no sense.

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Why Melissa Rauch's Night Court Was Canceled By NBC

BY JEREMY SMITH
MAY 9, 2025 5:02 PM EST



Nostalgia is not, inherently, a bad thing. Classic films like Federico Fellini's "L'Avventura," George Lucas' "American Graffiti," and Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused" pine away for carefree youth, but they're also careful to acknowledge that the end of the party is on the horizon. Those tales are told from a place of melancholy remove. To quote Thomas Wolfe, "Going back home is a real boneheaded idea."

But in our glutted age of entertainment, where the competition for eyeballs is fierce, the old-school networks believe that one of their programming strengths is viewers' wistfulness for a simpler time, when there were three or four major broadcast entities providing the lion's share of original content. ABC, NBC, CBS and the 1980s party crasher Fox have their work cut out for them in 2025. They're held to conservative content standards and archaic scheduling strictures. Decades ago, they still had an edge because people in rural communities or folks who simply couldn't afford a basic cable television package could at least tune in to the networks and their local PBS affiliate. That advantage is gone now, which has led not to innovation but comfort food.

Sitcom revivals have been the rage since the 2018 return of "Roseanne" earned good reviews and finished third in the ratings for that season. It proved to be an outlier, though, because new runs of "Will & Grace," "Mad About You" and "Frasier" have been greeted with muted enthusiasm at best.

And now another sitcom revival has bitten the dust. NBC's newfangled "Night Court" has been dismissed after three seasons.

Melissa Rauch couldn't conjure that Harry Anderson magic



"Night Court" became a network sitcom institution in the 1980s by holding down the 9:30 slot on NBC's unbeatable Thursday night lineup. Created by Reinhold Weege, the series was the ribald link between the fine-tuned screwball fun of "Cheers" and the sexy, sudsy legal drama "L.A. Law." It was unabashedly silly, and got away with its low-aiming antics thanks to a sensational ensemble cast that included Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, Markie Post, Richard Moll and Marsha Warfield.

For this reason, it seemed like "Night Court" could work as a revival. It wasn't tethered to any cultural moment; it was just a goofy show about a judge presiding over evening proceedings in a Manhattan courtroom.

The sequel series cast "The Big Bang Theory" star Melissa Rauch as the daughter of Anderson's Harry Stone, and brought back Larroquette, but the mixture was off. Rauch is a talented comedic performer, but she couldn't get out from under the shadow of Anderson. After a strong start on NBC in 2023, the ratings for nü-"Night Court" plummeted, and that is why, according to Deadline, NBC is pulling the plug on the show after the conclusion of its third season.

All told, three seasons is nothing to sneeze at, especially for a show that was a pale comparison to the original. But consider this another nail in the coffin of the revival sitcom craze. I'm afraid that "Silver Spoons" return ain't happening.

[staytuned]

Although he has mellowed out and changed his ways, giving Dan Fielding his own version of Night Court is like giving Glenn Quagmire or Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy a spinoff of their own show. These characters are dirty minded weirdos and nobody wants to see them on television especially f*******t women.

[bipinbarr]

Terrible show! Not even 1 % as good as the original. A way overdue mercy killing by the network! Long live the original!

[staytuned]

It was imitated bipinbarr, but it can never be duplicated.

Also, I hope and pray that neither NBC nor its streaming service Peacock doesn't even think about or go near having a slimy reboot of My Two Dads with Michael Taylor and Joey Harris being a "couple" trying to raise a "queer" Nicole Bradford.

[TMC]

Others have said and noted that a likely tell-tale sign that this show was in trouble was when they resorted to stunt casting to draw up buzz and attention. In this case, bringing in Melissa Rauch's old co-stars from The Big Bang Theory like Mayim Bialik, Kunal Nayyar, Simon Helberg, and even Big Bang Theory adjacent cast members like Raegan Revord from Young Sheldon. It just reeked of desperation. If you're show is already doing well, then you don't need to resort to those types of tactics to draw in extra viewers.

[staytuned]

I'm not sure if this would've help them in the ratings game but its kind of a sad missed opportunity that they didn't get Richard Moll (R.I.P.) making a cameo apperance as his character Bull Shannon, but then again I'm assuming he had no desire to shave his head bald again LOL!!!

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Original Night Court Actor Shares Emotional Reaction to Reboot Series Cancellation

Night Court was canceled with a major cliffhanger.

[staytuned]

Even the appearances of Harry Anderson, Markie Post and Charlie Robinson in the 30 Rock episode "The One with the Cast of Night Court" from 2008 was way better and memorable than the 2023 Night Court reboot itself.