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Tag archive for ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’

“Newsroom” Preview Suggests Sorkin Masterpiece

Aaron Sorkin is an idol of mine—a true wordsmith whose whip-smart writing has exalted Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip on television and A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson’s WarThe Social Network, and Moneyball on film. (And now he’s even getting in the Broadway game, teaming up with Hugh Jackman and Wicked songster Stephen Schwartz for a [...]

The Prime Times: Patriotic Housewives Edition

No need to bother reading as many television blogs as I do. Here’s the news you should know:

  • The Guardian reported that American television shows like Desperate Housewives, Friends, and [...]

2010 Pilot Watch

‘Tis the season for development, and Lynette Rice at EW.com has released a list of the pilots the broadcast networks are considering. (Bear in mind that only a fraction of these shows will make it to the airwaves.) After perusing the [...]

Completist Destiny

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in "The X-Files"

Completist Destiny, as defined by Wikipedia, is the belief that a television addict such as myself is destined—nay, divinely ordained—to watch a series completely and completely chronologically. Fine, I admit: that might just be a dogma of my own creation. But I stick to it. (This is [...]