History Series / UpAllNight

In the first season, Reagan Brinkley (Applegate) has just gone back to work after giving birth to her daughter Amy (played by twins Carly and Delaney Prince). Reagan struggles to [[FamilyVersusCareer balance her work and home life]], with the help of her supportive, stay-at-home husband Chris (Arnett). At work, she is the OnlySaneEmployee at ''Ava'', an ''[[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]''-like TalkShow. She is also the best friend and LivingEmotionalCrutch of Ava herself (Rudolph), a somewhat neurotic and self-centered TV star. The first season cast is rounded out with quirky co-worker Missy (Jennifer Hall).

''Up All Night'' is an Creator/{{NBC}} SitCom starring Creator/ChristinaApplegate, Creator/WillArnett, and Creator/MayaRudolph. It managed to have three {{Retool}}s over the course of its two seasons.

ReTool #1 happened before the show even aired. The pilot was originally filmed with Rudolph in a supporting role, playing Reagan's boss at a PR firm. After the success of ''{{Film/Bridesmaids}}'', it was decided that Rudolph needed a bigger and funnier part. Hence, the pilot was refilmed with the PR firm changed to the ''Ava'' talk show. This resulted in ''Up All Night'' being two shows at once, one a realistic {{Dramedy}} DomCom about new parents and the other a wacky ''Series/ThirtyRock''[=-esque=] WorkCom about show business. Critics and the show's creators felt the tonal dissonance was too much.

Cue ReTool #2. The second season opens with the news that ''Ava'' has been cancelled. With this development, Hall is dropped from the cast, although Rudolph remains, as Ava is still Reagan's best friend. Joining the cast in the second season is Luka Jones as Reagan's lovable loser brother Scott. With his wife now unemployed, Chris goes back to work and, finding his old job soulless, begins a company with Scott as his partner. Essentially, the WorkCom aspects of the show were eliminated and it became a straight DomCom.

Then came ReTool #3, which unraveled the show into oblivion before it could even take effect. NBC decided that ''Up All Night'', which to that point had been done in a single-camera format without a LaughTrack, would switch to a multi-camera format with a StudioAudience because why the hell not. They'd already tried everything else. Some truly nutty ideas were thrown around, such as baby Amy being able to see a portal connecting the single-cam world to the multi-cam world. In the end, they settled for the completely sane concept of having the entire show turn out to be a ShowWithinAShow, and from that point on follow the lives of the fictional actors playing Reagan, Chris, and Ava.[[note]][[http://www.tvguide.com/News/Up-All-Night-Demise-1062227.aspx Seriously, we're not making this up.]][[/note]] Somehow, Applegate was unimpressed and jumped ship, followed by Arnett and Rudolph. The show was dead, but it still took several months before NBC acknowledged defeat and canceled the show officially.

''Up All Night'' is an Creator/{{NBC}} SitCom starring Creator/ChristinaApplegate, Creator/WillArnett, and Creator/MayaRudolph. It managed to have three {{ReTool}}s over the course of its two seasons.

* {{Adorkable}}: Chris and especially Reagan come across this way when they try to prove to people (or even to themselves) that they can be "cool" parents.

''Up All Night'' is an Creator/{{NBC}} SitCom starring Creator/ChristinaApplegate, Will Arnett, and Creator/MayaRudolph. It managed to have three {{ReTool}}s over the course of its two seasons.

* [[AsHimself As Herself]]: StevieNicks is a guest on Ava's show at one point. This leads to an ImagineSpot in which Reagan fantasizes about the two of them singing a duet.

In the first season, Reagan Brinkley (Applegate) has just gone back to work after giving birth to her daughter Amy (played by twins Carly and Delaney Prince). Reagan struggles to [[FamilyVersusCareer balance her work and home life]], with the help of her supportive, stay-at-home husband Chris (Arnett). At work, she is the OnlySaneEmployee at ''Ava'', an ''[[TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]''-like TalkShow. She is also the best friend and LivingEmotionalCrutch of Ava herself (Rudolph), a somewhat neurotic and self-centered TV star. The first season cast is rounded out with quirky co-worker Missy (Jennifer Hall).

* TheAce: StevieNicks is portrayed as an almost Buddha-like figure. She can shush babies and dogs.

Then came ReTool #3, which unraveled the show into oblivion before it could even take effect. NBC decided that ''Up All Night'', which to that point had been done in a single-camera format without a LaughTrack, would switch to a multi-camera format with a StudioAudience because why the hell not. They'd already tried everything else. Some truly nutty ideas were thrown around, such as baby Amy being able to see a portal connecting the single-cam world to the multi-cam world. In the end, they settled for the completely sane concept of having the entire show turn out to be a ShowWithinAShow, and from that point on follow the lives of the fictional actors playing Reagan, Chris, and Ava.[[note]][[http://www.tvguide.com/News/Up-All-Night-Demise-1062227.aspx Seriously,]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer we're not making this up.]][[/note]] Somehow, Applegate was unimpressed and jumped ship, followed by Arnett and Rudolph. The show was dead, but it still took several months before NBC acknowledged defeat and canceled the show officially.

Then came ReTool #3, which unraveled the show into oblivion before it could even take effect. NBC decided that ''Up All Night'', which to that point had been done in a single-camera format without a LaughTrack, would switch to a multi-camera format with a StudioAudience because why the hell not. They'd already tried everything else. Some truly nutty ideas were thrown around, such as baby Amy being able to see a portal connecting the single-cam world to the multi-cam world. In the end, they settled for the completely sane concept of having the entire show turn out to be a ShowWithinAShow, and from that point on follow the lives of the fictional actors playing Reagan, Chris, and Ava.[[note]][[http://www.tvguide.com/News/Up-All-Night-Demise-1062227.aspx Seriously, we're not making this up.]][[/note]] Somehow, Applegate was unimpressed and jumped ship, followed by Arnett and Rudolph. The show was dead, but it still took several months before NBC acknowledged defeat and canceled the show officially.

* ActorAllusion: Episode 17 has Will Arnett's character make the same chicken sound as when he played [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Gob]].
** It could be a coincidence, but the daughter of Will Arnett's character has the same name as [[Creator/AmyPoehler Will Arnett's wife.]]
** Another episode has Arnett's character give some of his daughter's baby clothes to a friend, then change his mind. His excuse: [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment "I've made a huge mistake."]]
** A huge reference to Will Arnett's [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment most famous role]] is made when Chris meets the dentist who has been hitting on Reagan. He greets him with, "What's up, my brother?" The dentist is played by Tony Hale.
** One episode guest stars Megan Mullally as Shayna, who hosts a talk show rivaling Ava's. Mullally actually did briefly host her own talk show.
** AlanisMorissette guest stars as a former bandmate of Ava's.
** A YouTube "flashback" to the 1990s of Ava fighting with her boyfriend B-Ro in public shows Reagan trying to intervene, and looking remarkably like [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Kelly Bundy]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: [[ReTool Hoo boy.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: Will Arnett playing a loving, caring husband and father is far removed from the [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment selfish]] [[Series/ThirtyRock jerks]] he normally is known to play.

''Up All Night'' is an Creator/{{NBC}} SitCom starring Christina Applegate, Will Arnett, and Creator/MayaRudolph. It managed to have three {{ReTool}}s over the course of its two seasons.

''Up All Night'' is an Creator/{{NBC}} SitCom starring Christina Applegate, Will Arnett, and MayaRudolph. It managed to have three {{ReTool}}s over the course of its two seasons.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ava = Oprah (denied by MayaRudolph, however)

(Not to be confused with the '90s Creator/USANetwork series hosted by GilbertGottfried and Rhonda Shear that presented cheesy [[{{BMovie}} B-Movie]]s mixed in with even cheesier comedy sketches.)

Not to be confused with the '90s Creator/USANetwork series hosted by GilbertGottfried and Rhonda Shear that presented cheesy [[{{BMovie}} B-Movie]]s mixed in with even cheesier comedy sketches.

Not to be confused with the '90s Creator/USANetwork series hosted by GilbertGottfried Rhonda Shear and showing cheesy [[{{BMovie}} B-Movie]]s mixed in with even cheesier comedy sketches.

** It could be a coincidence, but the daughter of Will Arnett's character has the same name as [[AmyPoehler Will Arnett's wife.]]

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: An embarrassing "romantic" duet with Ava and B-Ro from the 1990s, although Ava seems incapable of shame. And even more embarrassing public fight between Ava and B-Ro, with Reagan trying to intervene. Again, no same on Ava's part.

* ArtifactTitle: Potentially, if the show goes on for two or three seasons and they don't have another child.

** Somewhat bafflingly, NBC has plans to convert the show to multi-cam format and film it in front of a live audience starting with the last few episodes of Season 2.

* LaughTrack: One of a number of current NBC series that doesn't have one.
** Sadly, this will no longer be the case after the mid-Season 2 hiatus. (It'll have a studio audience. Not a laugh track. The effect on the home viewers is generally the same, though.)

Then came ReTool #3, which unraveled the show into oblivion before it could even take effect. NBC decided that ''Up All Night'', which to that point had been done in a single-camera format without a LaughTrack, would switch to a multi-camera format with a StudioAudience because why the hell not. They'd already tried everything else. Some truly nutty ideas were thrown around, such as baby Amy being able to see a portal connecting the single-cam world to the multi-cam world. In the end, they settled for the completely sane concept of having the entire show turn out to be a ShowWithinAShow, and from that point on follow the lives of the fictional actors playing Reagan, Chris, and Ava. Somehow, Applegate was unimpressed and jumped ship, followed by Arnett and Rudolph. The show was dead, but it still took several months before NBC acknowledged defeat and canceled the show officially.

Then came ReTool #3, which unraveled the show into oblivion before it could even take effect. NBC decided that ''Up All Night'', which to that point had been done in a single-camera format without a LaughTrack, would switch to a multi-camera format with a StudioAudience because why the hell not. They'd already tried everything else. Some truly nutty ideas were thrown around, such as baby Amy being able to see a portal connecting the single-cam world to the multi-cam world. In the end, they settled for the completely sane concept of having the entire show turn out to be a ShowWithinAShow, and from that point on follow the lives on the fictional actors playing Reagan, Chris, and Ava. Somehow, Applegate was unimpressed and jumped ship, followed by Arnett and Rudolph. The show was dead, but it still took several months before NBC acknowledged defeat and canceled the show officially.