In a bid for all the retooling, Up All Night will become a multi-camera sitcom
NBC’s Up All Night underwent some considerable retooling between its first and second seasons, abandoning one of its settings (thus wiping the existence of a “Nick Cannon” from viewers’ minds) in an attempt to alleviate creator Emily Spivey and her writing staff of the feeling they were simultaneously making a highwire workplace sitcom and an even-keeled domestic comedy. Of course, what emerged from that retooling feels like a different show in and of itself—so, by The A.V. Club’s unofficial count, when Up All Night returns this spring as a multi-camera sitcom taped before a live studio audience, that’ll mark the fourth iteration of a fairly low-concept series about a loving husband and wife balancing personal ambitions with raising their first child. And hey, maybe this version will feature a wise-cracking canine, “the original dog from Hell,” if you will. (You mean Cerberus?)
