Okay West Wing Fans - Aaron Sorkin is back and while Studio 60 is no West Wing its still pretty interesting - at least on the first viewing. I taped it (Aimee - do you need me to save these tapes?) and watched the opening with the mute/slow down and repeat controls in my hand.
Sorkin likes to keep using characters from show to show to movie and back again (Martin Sheen as Chief of Staff in American President? Nahh, didn't work) so its a little odd to see Danny the Reporter now the director in the booth (like right, he was going to get fired?). Josh is still Josh even if they changed his name and his hair a bit, and hes not so manic but I kept thinking - where is Donna? And I watched friends for way too long to be able to accept Matthew Perry as a different person but hey, time will ease these confusions. *
Okay - the fact that I'm writing about this clearly means I have just a little too much time on my hands this morning but under the theory that if we only posted to the blog when something big is happening we'll hardly ever post I'm going to prattle on a bit more.
Opening scene has the director of studio 60 doing a Network rant - interrupting a comedy sketch ala Saturday Night Live that was set in the Oval Office - ummmm, any references to West Wing here? Any rants a certain producer who was fired for caring too much about scripts and writing might have wanted to get off his chest? Poooleease - setting this rant with the white house oval office as the backdrop was just a little bit obvious – and amusing.
*speaking of crossing TV worlds, the good guy Secret Service head dude on WW played a corrupted evil congress person on Gena Davis's Presidential show and that was just wrong.
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Yes, Anitra, I'd love to have the tapes of this new show...and anyone out there with Tivo could do DVDs and send them along to Switzerland...(you could send tapes, too, but they're bulkier and thus more expensive)... :)
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