Christina Applegate Is Leaving “Up All Night” **UPDATE** Lisa Won’t Do It

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By Nads | Friday, February 8, 2013 | 2:27 pm | 10 Comments
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Christina Applegate is leaving Up All Night. NBC’s plan on revamping the single-cam comedy to a multi-cam, and supposedly it’s been a mess with the turnover. Anyway, to make it even messier, Christina Applegate has decided she’s leaving the show due to creative differences. She said, “It’s been a great experience working on Up All Night, but the show has taken a different creative direction and I decided it was best for me to move on to other endeavors. Working with Lorne Michaels has been a dream come true and I am grateful he brought me into his TV family.  I will miss the cast, producers and crew, and wish them the best always.” 

Rumor is that they’re eyeing to bring in Lisa Kudrow to replace Christina, but why bother. The show sounds like a fat mess. They should just quit while they’re ahead and put a fork in it. I wonder what happened? It’s sad because they had such a killer cast. See you in Anchorman 2, Christina!

**UPDATE** Lisa Kudrow’s producing partner tweeted that there is no truth to the Lisa rumor.

 

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

10 Comments

  1. 1
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    I really liked the first season of “Up All Night.” In fact, I liked best the very thing that the execs think “didn’t work” — Maya Rudolph’s Ava and her talk show. But they killed that part of the show off and brought in a new character (Christina Applegate’s character’s brother), which is always the sign of a struggling show. And going from a single camera show to a multi-camera-live-studio-audience type of show is pretty darn extreme and incredibly stupid. It’s not going to last. I don’t know why they just didn’t pull the plug.

    I adore Lisa Kudrow, but man, that’s a stupid idea any way you slice it.

    And I kind of hate Will Arnett. He seems like one of the most arrogant people in the universe. We get it, you like to work out, you love your body, go away.

  2. 2
    jarthon jarthon
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 3:10 pm

    Didn’t even realize this show was still on the air. I gave up on it when the Ava show was canceled. Too much changed too fast

  3. 3
    Hantz Down
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    Wonder if it has to do with the blind gossip rumours of an affair between Christina Applegate and Will Arnett?

    Revamping a show by bringing in a new lead is usually a disaster unless the original person was relatively unlikable (Cheers, Two & A Half Men).

  4. 4
    thisbuggs4u
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    I have not heard of this show! Is it CBS, FOX?

    Hypno, are you ever coming back to recap? I miss you!

  5. 5
    Hypnotoad Hypnotoad
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    Oh, thisbuggs4u! I’m so effing flattered. But work is majorly kicking my ass. So. Much. I may do an odd recap or article here and there, but coming back full-time isn’t really an option just right now. I *AM* watching “The Americans” on FX and loving it, though . . .

  6. 6
    CathodeTube CathodeTube
    Posted February 9, 2013 at 3:45 am

    I’ve only ever seen the first 5 minutes of that show because I dvr 30 Rock to run over for that post-credits punchline, and I always think that the writers/producers want me to like it and relate to it, but they’re trying too hard and they end up kind of insulting their target demo. I want to tell the writers, hey, you can be a former partier and a parent but not a dipshit. Am I watching it wrong?

  7. 7
    Cheergirl
    Posted February 9, 2013 at 10:06 am

    I loved the first season. I tried watching the 2nd and it just sucked. Everything changed and they lost what made the show great.

  8. 8
    Amy
    Posted February 10, 2013 at 6:12 am

    I loved the first season, but still enjoyed the second one, too. I am bummed about this news!

  9. 9
    Wills
    Posted February 10, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    I, too, loved the first season because my husband and I had a baby the same age and had experienced similar situations like weird neighbors/stay at home dads etc. But then it just wasn’t funny, Arnett’s character was an idiot, Applegate’s was a shrew and the baby became a footnote. It fell hard and fast.

  10. 10
    Dear Crabby
    Posted February 11, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    Sounds like the Cousin-Olivered it bigtime…what a shame, such a great cast.

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