Unfortunately for Lopez Vs. Lopez, that bubble burst less than an hour later. The show, which the Lopezes created in collaboration with Debby Wolfe, was one of the few multicam broadcast comedies to feature a Latino family. Over its three seasons, the show warmly followed the changing relationship between dad and daughter as the two navigated the tensions of sharing a home. It’s one of the most personal shows the elder Lopez has ever made. “The more truthful or the real the scene is, or the real the situation is, the more comfortable I am,” he told TheWrap mid-season three. “As you get older and you start to lose people, and you start to suffer loss, there’s some things you can’t do or go get back, and there’s some things you can change. I thought … forgiveness, but also regret, were good areas for comedy.”
In a separate interview with TheWrap, Rauch gushed about how much she loved filming Night Court. “I would do this show until Abby Stone was a geriatric judge,” she said. “I’m having the time of my life getting to do it, and I truly feel like a little kid who got to step through my TV screen into a show that I love so much. I’ll do it for as long as they’ll have us. I’m hopeful.”
While that hope unfortunately didn’t hold up in court, Rauch may be right when she says the show has “so many more stories to tell.” Deadline reports that while a push for Night Court to return for a truncated fourth and final season didn’t play out, Warner Bros. Television may shop it elsewhere.
As of this writing, Suits LA, Found, and The Irrational have also been canceled by the network. We’ll see if the axe falls on any other titles as the night goes on.
