Why NBC Is Airing a Live Sitcom Next Season

Undateable will be the first series to be broadcast all-live since Roc in 1992-93

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Undateable is alive—and all-live!

Late Friday night, NBC announced it had renewed its sophomore sitcom starring Chris D'Elia and Bridgit Mendler for a third season and that all of Season 3 will be filmed live.

Launching a live sitcom on the network has been a priority for NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt since the success of The Sound of Music Live! in December 2013. "There's a lot of live things in television," he said last year, "but not in scripted programming. So

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