‘Vampire Academy’ Adds ‘Modern … 
RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Shark Tank’ Finale Up, … 
Friday Box Office: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ … 
Cannes: Worldview Options Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn … 
UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
‘Mike & Molly’ Creator Mark Roberts To … 
Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts Set For … 
Hammond On Cannes: Weinstein Brings Out Stars For 2013 … 
Cannes: Fake Gunshots Interrupt Canal Plus Live Broadcast … 
‘The Great Gatsby’ Starts With $5.4M … 
Cannes: Music Box Snags Competition’s ‘Michael … 
UPDATE: Amazon Studios Begins Pilot Pickups; … 
Bruce Rosenblum Bids Classy Goodbye 
RATINGS RAT RACE UPDATE: ‘American Idol’ Hits … 
UPDATE: ‘Iron Man 3′ Box Office Crosses $1B … 
Upfront Market: Will Auto Makers Subsidize TV … 
Cannes: Thief Makes Off With $1M+ In Chopard Jewelry Meant … 
‘Scandal’ Finale On Small Screen And Onstage At … 
‘Modern Family’ Gets Cable Makeover For Launch … 
Adam Sandler To Leno: “Maybe Go To Fox” 
Anyone Care Who Won ‘American Idol’? 
EXCLUSIVE: As NBC‘s sophomore comedy Up All Night transitions from a single- to multi-camera format, it will do so without the series creator/executive producer Emily Spivey, who has departed the show. There has been a lot of behind-the-scenes turnover on the series starring Christina Applegate, Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph since May when original showruuner Jon Pollack left. He was replaced by Tucker Cawley who, in turn, was replaced by Linda Wallem when NBC decided to revamp Up All Night as a multi-camera comedy after 11 softly rated episodes of Season 2. Along with the format switch, Up All Night will undergo creative changes, including in the balance between family and workplace comedy, that are still being worked out. In its original incarnation, Up All Night was a family comedy about new parents played by Applegate and Arnett, which was inspired by Spivey’s real-life experiences of going back to work soon after giving birth. The workplace element was expanded when Rudolph was cast as Applegate’s boss.
TV Editor Nellie Andreeva - tip her here.
Loading ...
I loved this show but it’s way past time to put a fork in it. These constant revamps are just a distraction.
There is no hope for this show. So much wasted talent.
well said. it’s a shame, really. on paper it looked to be good stuff. it felt ‘off’ from the get-go. and the ‘workplace element’ never worked one bit. time to move on.
Everything about this has been a disaster. Poor Spivey. This isn’t her show anymore.
This is great news for,the show! It will be much funnier without Spivey’s “comedy”.
Good for Emily. She’s a smart, funny, great writer and didn’t deserve any of the crap that’s happened to her creation. All the network meddling has really just made thing exponentially worse… They should’ve left well enough alone. And this new concept I’ve heard bandied about: Wallem watching and commenting MST3K-style sounds like total dogballs. So glad Emily is blowing dodge. Now if only Will and Maya can extricate themselves…
The problem with “her creation” was that very few viewers liked it. It always was too hip for the room..
The revamp just smacks of more failure, although Spivey’s departure is a blessing for it’s future. Having written on the show’s first season, I can say it was as badly run as any show I’ve been around. A tentative showrunner,a clueless line producer, and a disloyal non-writing EP assured it’s lesser quality. I appreciate NBC’s bold move to give it a new life, but for everyone who quit or was fired (which has turned into a rather large, prestigious group), it’s all for the best. Really.
Amen.
Another problem might have been the show’s writers not knowing how “its” works.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The first season was fine enough–they just needed to tone down the Rudolph character. The introduction of Steven Pasquale was great. When the show returned in the fall … with the brother character … it became unwatchable.
Yep. It’s another case of our leads suck so let’s keep adding more and more cast members in an effort to distract everyone from that fact. Christina Applegate is fine is small doses as she was on Married With Children but she’s atrocious when it comes to playing the lead. She just doesn’t have the level of talent or charisma required and, I hate to say this, but she’s looking very worse for wear as well.
Great talent wasted on this show and its sad because it started out ok, it just never got better
I feel like the only person in the world who was enjoying this show. There’s not nearly enough hype about it. I think it was pretty well written, especially once Maya Rudolph’s character toned down and became more like a real person.
I applaud the revamp. Rather than canceling or settling for mediocrity they’re trying to fix it and/or drum up more ratings. Spivey has been there from the beginning and its just not working so its best she move on.
This show sounds like a real winner.
Didn’t the first pilot have Rudolph and Applegate both as Public Relations agents? Who’s idea was it to change the workplace element to an Oprah type talk show? Was that a Spivey or network decision?
Christina is funny.
Emily Spivey is probably one of the funniest people I’ve ever been in a room with. Those of you knocking her are either crazy or clueless. I hope I get to be a part of whatever she does next because it will be awesome/hilarious.
Well, just be sure to tell her you are Person when you climb out of her butt.
Seems like a lot to save a show that was weak to begin with. But hey, it’s NBC’s money.
Loved the show’s first season, but the second season isn’t working. Maya’s character isn’t funny when she’s powerless. The brother is a stereotype – slacker – clueless, but with a good heart. We don’t need another of those characters. The original premise worked. Original leads are enormous talents. I hope it gets fixed.
@Person – “one of the funniest people I’ve ever been in a room with” – ?? So you’re a mortician?
What is this obsession with networks to make shows about parents raising children? Believe it or not lots of us don’t have kids and don’t want them. Has there ever been a SUCCESSFUL show that didn’t rely on babies or annoying children? Let’s see…
Cheers
Barney Miller
The Honeymooners
Taxi
Mary Tyler Moore
Friends
And one you may have heard of called
SEINFELD
to name a few
Most of us don’t have superpowers or catch serial killers either, but that’s pretty heavily represented on TV too.
Your sense of entitlement is astounding. But I guess it’s what happens when every single Hollywood movie has to star a young white male, so that everyone EXCEPT young white males grow up imaging constantly what it’s like to be a different kind of person. It wouldn’t hurt you to watch shows about people who aren’t stand-ins for you personally.
I think the point is that when children are in the mix it limits what you can “realistically” have the characters do without making them seem like bad parents. “I Love Lucy” introduced Mrs. Trumball once Little Ricky was born and Lucy’s mother came along with them to California and took care of him while they were in Europe. This allowed Lucy the freedom to still be Lucy without seemingly like a bad or neglectful mother.
Old trick the network uses not to lose/renegotiate with the talent on their deals by not changing the name of the show. D-Girls want shows about what D-Girls are going through. They’re finally off of someone’s desk, got the big promotion and the clock is ticking. I am sick of all these shows. Oh, and maybe they’re addicted to something, too.
The show doesn’t know which direction to head in.
Nothing an inter-dimensional portal won’t fix.
Part of the problem is Will Arnett, who is not leading man material. A little of him goes a long way. Plus the fact that he seems to think he’s really handsome (he’s constantly going shirtless in the show), and he’s average at best.
I had no idea there was that much turnover on this show. It explains why it went down hill after the first five episodes or so. It started out great and then it changed. Now I know it’s the classic too many cooks in the kitchen. I don’t blame her for saying bye bye.
I’m just sick of television shows about television. Attention TV execs and studios: We are not as interested in shows about your own lives as you seem to think we are.
And especially since comedically, the peak has been reached with The Larry Sanders Show.
Not sure what kind of frankenshow they’ll be left with after all the retooling, but season 2 has underwhelmed so far. Sad to see all these changes after the show finished strong at the end of Season 1. The three leads are terrific; they don’t need the brother character who replaced Jason Lee; the dopey neighbors get a little too much screentime for what they’re worth; no one remotely as square as those two would exist within a six mile radius of downtown LA. They would have succumbed to the hipster tsunami years ago.
Amen, HappyFeet.