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It was funny to see the actors that were on Sports Night make appearances on West Wing. I'm sure the same thing will happen with Studio 60.

I also noticed there were a lot of lines in Sports Night that made their way into West Wing dialogue. I'm guessing Sorkin thought that since no one watched Sports Night, he could get away with it.

 

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And let me add (post pad) to the chorus of those who loved the show tonight.
Better than what I expected. A little odd to see Bradley Whitford playing a different role, I kept expecting someone to say "Josh."
Sorkin supposedly has the next seven or eight episodes already written, so that's good.
And the casting was excellent. I did a little more googling and I love how Sorkin cast one of the few openly gay actresses in Hollywood in the role of the very religious Christian. I also liked how she put the bitch slap on the guy at the wrap party.
Let the countdown start on Josh Malina's appearance and when the first trifecta makes the script. The trifecta is the same line in Sports Night, West Wing and Studio 60.

 

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Here is my Aaron Sorkin rant and why I am tempering my high hopes for this show (which I DVR'd).

The first season of a Sorkin show is amazing. I would put season 1 of the West Wing against any television show in history. I loved the entire first season of Sports Night. That the first seasons would be so strong in a character-based drama is odd. When you think of your favorite shows, they follow an arc comparable to a Bell Curve. The writers spend the first few seasons developing the character beyond its caricature of the initial episodes and hit their peak around Season 4 or so.

Sorkin starts out with very well-developed characters and adds in the dynamite plots of the first season and you get great television. But as ideas begin to wear thin, his plots get implausible or boring or he is tempted to take the character in a different direction to make a point. Having Jeremy dating a pornstar on SportsNight stretched both plot and character. Or look at his season-ending cliffhangers from WW: an attempted presidential assasination by a fringe white supremicist group, his personal secretary dying in a car accident, ordering a mob-style hit on a foreign defense minister and the first-ever invocation of the 25th Amendment because the president's daughter was kidnapped. No presidential administration has gone through anything close to that and on a series that prided itself on realism, it was pretty out of character.

I am expecting the first season of Studio 60 to kick ever-loving ass...but I don't have my hopes up beyond that.

 

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Fuerte, oldtony and you has me thinking of a new topic: shows that didn't last because it was too smart for the audiences.

 

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Well, Sports Night definitely belongs on THAT list.

 

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freaks and geeks was too good for network tv -- futurama, too

 

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Sorkin definitely isn't afraid to steal from himself. There was the comment about Amanda Peet's character being for real. That was a big concept on "The West Wing," too. That conversation between Matt and Danny had a very similar feel to the one when Josh Lyman recruited Sam Seaborn to join Jed Bartlett's staff.

That said, I'm already liking this show, though I only saw what went on during halftime and commercials of the football game (couldn't stay away even though I was taping.)

 

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shottie, Hoops, I just posted a topic for it: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/31995/

 

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Whoa! Does that mean we'll be seeing Sabrina Lloyd soon? Cool!

As a matter of fact, thinking of her makes me need to go over to the thread about Hollywood people that no one thinks are hot that you think is.

 

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I want to meet the red-blooded American male who doesn't want to do things with Sabrina Lloyd in a motel room that would make Wilt Chamberlain, Joe Namath and every Kennedy male go, "Daaaaamnnn....." The man who doesn't find Sabrina Lloyd either needs to come out of the closet or turn in his genitals, because he obviously doesn't know how to use them.

 

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Wanted to watch it, source phoned me at exactly 9:02 and kept me on the phone until 10:45. Didn't even get a chance to go downstairs and tape.
Any ideas about where I can see it, short of waiting until they rerun it, are welcome.

 

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Bradley Whitford is playing Aaron Sorkin, and Joe Scarborough Matt Perry is playing himself as a writer.

While I don't care for Steven Weber in a serious role, this one was an Adam Dunn-style home run. You knew it was way out of the park as soon as it started. I've already set up the DVR for the rest of the year on this one.

In case you missed it, Bravo appears to be showing the pilot a couple times later this week and USA apparently will air it on Oct. 3.

PS -- Only beef: They should have showed the "Crazy Christians" sketch.