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I was looking forward to this and was cheering for it to work. Wow. Talk about a disappointment. (Note the 4 stars.)

The original was a staple in my home - and brilliant! The laughs were consistently rolling by, subtle, smart and witty. Yes, some were slapstick, but not ALL of them were like on the new version.

The new version is a bad copy. Really bad. It takes slapstick to a new level - and that's hard to do, and not at all attractive or appealing.

Then there's the laugh track. PLEASE. OMG! It is singularly AWFUL. The show treats its audience as if we are idiots who don't know when to laugh and need a LOUD massive reminder. We do not.

We are smart, fun loving people who were a built-in audience for this program! And they threw us all away by not providing a quality show. Everyone lost on this one.

Most people reviewing here seem to be honest fans of the original show, and it was indeed funny .... every episode. Harry was a treat, and the surrounding cast played off of his humor very well, and he off of theirs.

The reboot uses the device of his supposed daughter showing up as the new Night Court judge. Harry was funny. She has yet to be.

Olivia, the DA, is simply annoying. Her part is badly written and she responds by going over the top. WAY over the top.

The only saving grace is John Laroquette, but he can't carry the show on his own. He's trying his best, I'll give him that. And the idea of bringing him back as the Public Defender was an interesting touch. I hope the show improves, but already my wife refuses to watch it anymore :-(

The laugh track does NOT help. When the laugh track plays for something you found no humor whatsoever in, that's a bad, bad sign.

I wanted to like this show since I loved the original. I was surprised that the dialog was difficult to follow. Did the writers or director think it would be funnier if most characters talked too fast? No, I do not have a hearing problem.

Half of the characters have shallow personalities but half are well developed. I'll keep watching, hoping it improves.

John Larroquette played the kinky sleazeball perfectly in the original. Currently he just reflects the antics of the other characters. He's almost a straight man!

Harry Anderson portrayed a bizarre but fair judge, strange interests with a heart of gold. Melissa Rauch plays a judge with.awkward half-hidden sexual desires. Not nearly as interesting and a bit of a cliche.

Richard Moll, Markie Post, Marsha Warfield, Charles Robinson, and others played characters so deep they were profound at times, and play the parts well. I hope the new series can develop like that.

I liked the original Night Court pretty well and I am a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory, so I'm willing to give this a chance. However, so much depends on the writers, and these writers really really need a lot of help. I barely made it through episode one, but I will give the next one or two a try. I really wish Internet Movie Database would stop requiring a certain number of characters in a review. I like to be succinct but they are requiring me to be overly loquacious. Even with all this I can't come up with enough words! Gives this show a chance, you might like it. Then again maybe you won't.

Now i love the original 1984-92 night court, it was funny, hilarious and had a lot of style, this one however despite the comeback of john larroquette is truly banal and all over the map, melissa raunch who was hilarious in the big bang theory is wasted here is abby stone, the daughter of judge harry t stone and the rest of the cast is lost too, there's no brent spiner, no marsha warfield, no richard moll, none of that, the teleplay is real boring, the dialogue is ridiculous and what is a laugh track doing in this predicable mess, i know there a few good moments here and there, but this is just a bore, this is a very poor and boring intimidation of the original, rent the original night court instead.

I'm giving it a c-

thumbs down for me on the new version of night court.