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The crazy courtroom won’t be back for the 2025-26 TV season. NBC has cancelled Night Court and any plans for a fourth season. The show’s third season, which aired 18 episodes, ended on a cliffhanger on Tuesday.
A workplace comedy series, the Night Court TV show stars Melissa Rauch, Lacretta, Wendie Malick, Nyambi Nyambi, and John Larroquette. The new story follows Abracadabra “Abby” Stone (Rauch), a judge following in the footsteps of her revered late father, Judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson). She takes on the challenge of overseeing the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court, just as he did. To bring order and dignity to the court, she enlists former night court district attorney Dan Fielding (Larroquette) to serve as the court’s public defender. Others on the court team include new prosecutor Julianne Walters (Malick), a reformed convict and former love interest of Dan; court clerk Wyatt Shaw (Nyambi), a jack of all trades, devoted single dad, and law student; and Donna “Gurgs” Gurganous (Lacretta), the sharp-witted bailiff.
Airing on Tuesday nights, the third season of Night Court averaged a 0.22 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 1.93 million viewers (includes DVR playback through 3:00 AM). Compared to season two, that’s down by 33% in the demo and down by 36% in viewership.
While the show got off to a strong start, the ratings have declined throughout its run. It’s NBC’s lowest-rated comedy of the current season.
Today, NBC also cancelled Found, The Irrational, Lopez Vs Lopez, and Suits LA.
What do you think? Have you kept up with the Night Court series? Were you looking forward to seeing a fourth season on NBC?
We tried to keep up with this one but NBC for whatever reason removed all but the most recent stuff off of Peacock. Why have your own streaming service if you won’t even stream your own shows?
I’m sure I’m not the only one who tried to catch up before season 3 only to find the previous seasons were removed. After that we bailed.
It’s wonderful show with fine actors & great fun. The network should slot it on another day/time before giving up.
Yeah it was so funny & great revival too. I never watched the older seasons though but great cast too. And disappointed with a cliffhanger will never know about that was starting to get interesting. And this show is better than St Denis Medical also. I wasn’t surprised actually after I saw the numbers of viewership it got lately because Will Trent & FBI were competing against it with huge viewership too. Too bad & wish it was on a another streaming platform the most.
Save Night Court!
Why Nightcourt? Why take away harmless innocent fun?
Then why leave it on a frigging cliffhanger …..