"Up All Night" to become even more unwatchable

I guess I don't understand how theyre hoping this can save the show...

I hope they do the same with SVU.

Are the network contracts of Arnett, Applegate, and Rudolph dependent on this show reaching a certain threshold? You might as just get all of these guys a brand new show- which honestly wouldn't be the worst idea with different writers and different premise.

I am putting money on the fact NBC suits saw Applegate and Rudolph returning on SNL in the last year and thinking, 'so this is where they get the laughs!'

It's like when they added the laugh track to SCOOBY DOO.

I love the cast, and wish I found the show more amusing. It's just... not (though I'd gladly take it over, say, Whitney). Is NBC trying to go more for traditional sitcoms due to CBS' recent success with them? I know they have Men with Kids, or whatever it's called, which really sticks out in their lineup. But really, as everyone else has said, this seems like an awful idea, and will just make the show all that much worse.

I think BEN & KATE is really good. I think there's been 4 episodes so far and I've actually cried at the end of maybe 3 of them, I find them really touching.

Yeah, I dunno. I think BEN & KATE has a lot of heart. I look forward to it each week now, so it'll be gone by the new year.

Agreed on Jason Lee. I think the brother is really cute, too, but he just adds nothing to this show and he was on a much funnier show that NBC didn't even try to help succeed.

But once those three cameras are set up and the studio audience arrives, I guess NBC is expecting Big Bang Theory's audience or something?

I've really gotten into Happy Endings. I think the Russo Brothers infusion of wackiness in the second season really won me over since I'm a major Community fan. Plus the whole cast seems game for anything. I hate that it is up against New Girl, which has become okay when it became a more ensemble show, since I fear it will get cancelled.

Ben & Kate has potential. I wish they used the little kid more and Lucy Punch unsurprisingly became my favorite part about the show thus far. It still has the training wheels on though but I still like it more than The Mindy Project, that is much more likely to get picked up, which gave me the false impression Anna Camp was the second banana when she has gotten maybe 2 minutes of screen-time in three episodes. And I only like the Morgan character.

Speaking of BFF and episode burn off, it still amazes me NBC did not give that or Bent a real chance. And both got reasonably good reviews for mid-season replacement shows.

Didn't you say the same thing about Guys with Kids?

You must be so excited that Whitney will be back soon!

I just wish Ben and Kate wasn't a tired old improv class project with Nat Faxon using his patented "idiot expression" based on pretty much every other character he played.

You're not married! You're brother and sister!
Riffing on an inappropriate and/or random subject endlessly with short awkward pauses!
Unison improv of a song by looking at each other!
Deliberate and forced nerdiness deploying the use of buck teeth!
Slutty girl speaks inappropriately to a child!
"Awww" moment at the end!

It's just a Mad Libs series.

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