Night Court has cast its new lead. Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory), who is also executive producing the project, will star in the pilot for the potential NBC sequel series. She will be joined by John Larroquette, who starred in the original comedy series for the network.
Rauch and husband Winston Rauch are executive producing via their After January production company, which is based at Warner Bros. Television. She approached WBTV (which produced Big Bang) about creating a new series because she’d been a fan of the original, which was led by Harry Anderson, and thought it could work today.
Deadline revealed the following about the plot of the possible NBC series:
“Written/executive produced by Dan Rubin based on the original series created by Reinhold Weege, the multi-camera Night Court centers on the unapologetic optimist judge Abby Stone (Rauch), daughter of the late Harry Stone, who follows in her father’s footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (Larroquette).”
The original series aired for eight seasons between 1984-1992. NBC is still deciding on whether or not to order this series.
What do you think? Were you a fan of the original Night Court on NBC? Do you want to see the new Night Court sequel?
I for one am ready to revisit Night Court, casting will be everything, though.
Yes! Really enjoyed Night Court.
We sure would love to see a re-boot, hope they get really good comedian’s together for this. It really was a great show, loved the judge. All innocent great comedy, bring it on.
I loved the original and still watch random episodes. I am hopeful about a spinquel.
I would love to see the remake of Night Court! And I usually hate remakes.
this could be good ,ESPECIALLY since they got back Mr . Larroquette, would be nice to see other former cast members as well, like Bull
Loved the show & John L. Will miss Harry A but inserting Rauch as his daughter is a reasonable premise. Just do NOT make her too cloying an optimist.
It would be nice if they came up with something original instead of basically another retread.
One of the best comedies ever on tv. Yes, bring it back please.
I would love to see a remake ESPECIALLY if some of the original cast are part of of the show.
Seems remakes never ate that good, probably because I seem to compare to the originals which were entertaining. I would watch the remake to see if it’s a GO !
The key to Night Court was that they had a great ensemble cast. Obviously Harry Anderson won’t be part of any reboot. If John Larroquette is the only original cast member involved, it’s going to be a big assumption to think you could re-create what made the show great in the first place.
Get a pilot ready and send it to Hell. I’ll give it a shot.
Loved the show would like to see this happen
Please do the reboot! It sounds great.
Night Court was great, and Melissa Rauch is fab. I really wish I could believe that means this is guaranteed to be good, but TV has let me down waaaay too often for that.