Night Court is finally returning in the fall 2024 TV schedule , just shy of eight months after the Season 2 finale back in the spring that ended with the reveal that Jake just might be Dan's son. Season 3 will also premiere with former guest star Wendie Malick returning as Dan's once-murderous nemesis Julianne, and she'll be sticking around this time. Malick and John Larroquette opened up about their characters' relationship now that she'll be a series regular, including "bad chemistry" in a very funny, Night Court sort of way.
The Season 2 finale (available streaming with a Peacock subscription ) ended with Olivia on board as the prosecutor opposite Dan; India de Beaufort is out of the cast with Wendie Malick stepping in for the upcoming third season. While that means a sticky situation for Dan, how exactly could jailbird Julianne even become an attorney in Abby's court? At NBC's press junket for Season 3, I asked the Shrinking alum how the premise was pitched to her, and she explained: That was when I first said, 'How can you have a criminally insane person become a lawyer, a regular lawyer in night court?' And they came up with the idea that there's a Project Second Chance for people who have done their time, and Abby decided that that would be the right court for me. So I just thought, 'I haven't done a sitcom in front of a live audience for many years,' but most of my career was spent doing that, and I actually had forgotten how much fun it is to be in front of a live au.