A couple of interesting TV-related tidbits were announced today. First up, good/strange news for Up All Night fans. NBC has extended the comedy’s season two order to 16 episodes, but the network is switching the show’s 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. It’s an odd move halfway through the show’s second season, but it’s 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 Rudolph’s 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 Harmon’s new projects has been picked up. Harmon was ousted as Community showrunner following the show’s 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 Harmon’s production company Starburns Industries broke the news on Twitter:
Rick and Morty! 10 half hours!Watch it sometime in late 2013 on adult swim!
— Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) October 27, 2012
Huge congrats to Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland for the pick up on Rick and Morty. Thanks Mike Lazzo and everyone at Adult Swim.
— Starburns Industries (@StarburnsInd) October 27, 2012
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.
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