A couple of interesting TV-related tidbits were announced today. First up, good/strange news for Up All Night fans. NBC has extended the comedyâs season two order to 16 episodes, but the network is switching the showâs format to multi-camera. Per Deadline, when the Christina Applegate and Will Arnett-fronted show returns in the spring it will be with a live audience and laugh track in tow. Itâs an odd move halfway through the showâs second season, but itâs not unprecedented. Happy Days was a single-camera series until it switched to three cameras in its third season.Hit the jump for more, including news on a new series from ex-Community showrunner Dan Harmon.Production on Up All Night will take a three-month hiatus to convert the sets to a multi-camera stage with an audience. The idea for the change apparently came from executive producer Lorne Michaels, who believes Applegate and co-star Maya Rudolphâs strong live-audience background on SNL will be put to good use with the swap. Following the December finale, the multi-camera debut will kick-off April or May with the 5 additional episodes that have been ordered. Though the show is still struggling to break out in a big way, the comedy has showed a promising ratings rise in the past couple of weeks.Additionally, one of Dan Harmonâs new projects has been picked up. Harmon was ousted as Community showrunner following the showâs third season, but Adult Swim has now picked up his new animated comedy Rick and Morty. The show centers on an evil genius and his not-so-evil genius grandson, and Adult Swim has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the series co-created by Harmon and Justin Roiland. Roiland and Harmonâs production company Starburns Industries broke the news on Twitter:[EMBED_TWITTER]https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/262038369083723777[/EMBED_TWITTER] [EMBED_TWITTER]https://twitter.com/StarburnsInd/status/261999129792741376[/EMBED_TWITTER] In addition to Rick and Morty, Harmon is also developing pilots at CBS and Fox and a stop-motion feature film based on a script by Charlie Kaufman.
TV News: NBC Orders More UP ALL NIGHT and Switches Format to Multi-Camera; Dan Harmon’s RICK AND MORTY Picked Up by Adult Swim
NBC Switches UP ALL NIGHT Format to Multi-Camera; Dan Harmon's RICK AND MORTY Picked Up by Adult Swim. Up All Night stars Christina Applegate.