Tonight at 8p, Night Court is back in session on NBC. Unfortunately, Harry Stone (Harry Anderson) is no longer with us, but his daughter is about to take over his judge’s chair.
Melissa Rauch plays Abby (wait until you hear what Abby is short for) Stone, and she is a new judge. She is just like her dad, and not everyone is going to like it. So she loses her public defender and decides to ask the recently widowed Dan Fielding if he wants to do it.
At first, he says no. But eventually, he gives in. He is not the same man we knew back in the ’80s. He has grown up, and he is a mentor to the people in the Night Court.
Olivia Moore (India de Beaufort) is the ADA. She is good at her job but has a lot to learn. Thankfully, Dan is there to help her.
And he is also there for Neil (India de Beaufort), who is the clerk. He is so a work in progress. And each week, we will see him getting a little bit stronger.
Finally, there is Gorgs (Lacretta), the bailiff. She is the perfect mix of Bull and Roz.
I grew up with Night Court, and it is one of my favorite shows. I like the sequel, but I don’t love it. I can tell it will grow on me, but after six episodes, I know I am going to need the season.
My biggest problem is Rauch is trying too hard to be like Harry Anderson. And no one can step into his clown shoes.
The other problem is they castrated Dan Fielding. He was a womanizer, but that is what made him so lovable. To take away such a big part of the character takes away from the character.
If you enjoyed the original, then you will like this version. You just have to stay with it.
Then at 9p, New Amsterdam says goodbye with a two-hour series finale. The first episode is your average one. However, the second one starts out with Max (Ryan Eggold) saying his goodbye to the hospital.
In his farewell speech to everyone, he tells them to remember the moment that they chose to be doctors. And throughout the episode, we will see that moment for Iggy (Tayler Labine), Bloom (Janet Montgomery), Reynolds (Jocko Sims), and Wilder (Sandra Mae Frank).
Back to Max leaving, he says his goodbye so that he could spend the day with his daughter. But a rare case comes in, and he is the only doctor who has successfully saved someone who had it. So, he comes back in, and everyone that we love will work with him to try to save her life.
Will they be able to do it? All I will say is the series gets a perfect ending.
I will miss New Amsterdam. Unfortunately, it went off course when they sent him to London. But it was back this season with lots of heartwarming moments. And no medical show did as good of a job as they did.
Because of that, I want to thank everyone who worked on the show for five years. You brought the heart back to medical dramas.
Before Melissa Rauch was all about being married to Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory, she had her ways of dealing with men that dumped her on Kath & Kim. She looks the same now as she did when she was 29 in that 2009 episode.
I bet when you read the headline, you were like who is Benji Gregory? He played ALF’s best friend Brian Tanner on the ’80s sitcom. And, like many child stars, his career didn’t follow him through adulthood.
Even though he is no longer acting, he still has a lot of fans, and they would like him to autograph the photos they have of him. And he has a message for them.
“Of course, I say this with peace and love; but to any and all fans throughout this beautiful globe,” he wrote. “Please stop sending me pictures looking for autographs. As of Feb 15 2023, all fan mail will be escorted to nearby landfill. 👇”
I have several friends who are former child stars. If any of them treated their fans like that, then they wouldn’t be my friend anymore.
For example, Randolph Mantooth is 77, and he welcomes people sending him fan mail. He starred in Emergency in the ’70s and did some Soap Opera work, so he gets lots of snail mail. How much could Gregory get that he turned into such an asshole about it?
We know that Only Murders in the Building is shifting focus for season three. They are leaving the building and heading down the Great White Way. If you are going to Broadway, you are going to need some big stars, and they have them.
We knew that Selena Gomez and Steve Martin Short were going to be joined by Paul Rudd on the Hulu comedy. And today, we learned who will be sharing the spotlight with them. That person is the legendary Meryl Streep!
If Only Murders doesn’t sweep the award shows next year, then those voters need to be taught what funny is. Sorry Abbott Elementary and Ted Lasso, but they Streeped you!
