It’s the other way around. The B-story of the 30 Rock episode was a Night Court reunion. A 30 Rock character was unhappy with how Night Court ended, so the actors played themselves filming an alternate final episode of Night Court.
If they’d like to give the younger Stone a talented but hopelessly unfashionable musician to have an overriding obsession with the way the elder stone idolized Mel Torme, I think Phil Collins would be a great call. I’m picturing the pilot episode ending with her rocking out to “Sussudio.”
I read on I think TV Tropes that Richard Moll didn’t like how Bull was turned into more and more of a joke character. He and John Laroquette didn’t get along at all, and since JL and Harry Anderson were good friends there was a lot of tension between him and Anderson too.
It amazes me how none of that showed up on camera. True professionals there!
Better yet if it’s a musician who will agree to appear in the show as him or herself, as Mel Torme did.
Oh, that’s too bad. I loved Bull a lot.
(ETA: Phil Collins is unfashionable?)
Certainly Phil Collins isn’t contemporary (meaning present-day) music, much as how Mel Tormé’s music was old-fashioned when the original show aired.
I hope it’s Mack and Quon Lee’s daughter.
I know it isn’t likely, but I’d like to see Harry and Christine’s marriage on 30 Rock become canon and Markie Post be a guest on the show.
I loved Night Court and The John Laroquette Show. I think it would make more sense to do a new original sitcom rather than a sequel to Night Court.
Loved Night Court but would rather see them do something more like how they spun off Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore show. Let it be its own show and not a retread of Night Court.
Update - Melissa Rauch to start as Abby Stone, Harry’s daughter.
Brent Spiner could guest as Bob Wheeler. He might be willing to appear a couple times. He turned down a recurring role on Night Court for Star Trek.
Trying to figure out why I always wanted to absolutely crush and destroy Harry Stone.
Without finesse.
So, do you see him (Wheeler) as still down on his luck or as a unlikely billionaire?
John Larroquette is a talented actor. But I’d rather see him in a good original series than a remake of a show he was in forty years ago.
It’s great that they got John Larroquette, but at the risk of turning it into a reunion show, I really hope they manage to get at least Markie Post or Richard Moll.
Moll is a definite No Fucking Way.
Yeah, that might be hard voodoo.