Just heard...
Aaron Sorkin may be coming back to TV! Yaaaaaaay!
The idea is as follows: Studio 7 on the Sunset Strip would be a behind the scenes look at a SNL-style sketch show.
Sorkin kind of tried this with Sports Night in the late ‘90s – behind the scenes of the SportsCenter-type flagship show on a fictional #3 rated sports channel CSC. Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause played the romanitcally challenged “star” next to his happy-go-luckier co-anchor Josh Charles (of Dead Poet’s Society and S.W.A.T.). Felicity Huffman (Deperate Housewives) played the show’s producer and Krause’s wannabe love interest. Playing co-producers were the lovely Sabrina Lloyd (Sliders, Numb3rs) and Sorkin alum Joshua Malina (who is now looking for work seeing as how his candidate is not THE candidate on West Wing), playing his character as typically brilliant but neurotic. It was a great ensemble cast with predictably outstanding writing. The show was great, but then again, I find most of Aaron Sorkin’s stuff to be way above par.
I mean West Wing, A Few Good Men, and The American President are all his creations along with Sports Night, but after a quick IMDB search I also find he worked on The Rock (I’m now sure some of the snappier dialogue is his and is part of what makes that movie so unabashedly great, Jerry Bruckheimer notwithstanding), Enemy of the State, and was asked by Spielberg to polish Schindler’s List. I’d have the man’s baby if I were a woman and he were more attractive.
So now, how can this new project possibly be better? Matthew Perry. He would play the brilliant comedy writer who’s asked to take charge of the sketch show. He had that short stint on West Wing, so he’s familiar with Sorkin and we all know him from Friends.
This show’s gonna have a ton of potential. I can’t wait!
The idea is as follows: Studio 7 on the Sunset Strip would be a behind the scenes look at a SNL-style sketch show.
Sorkin kind of tried this with Sports Night in the late ‘90s – behind the scenes of the SportsCenter-type flagship show on a fictional #3 rated sports channel CSC. Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause played the romanitcally challenged “star” next to his happy-go-luckier co-anchor Josh Charles (of Dead Poet’s Society and S.W.A.T.). Felicity Huffman (Deperate Housewives) played the show’s producer and Krause’s wannabe love interest. Playing co-producers were the lovely Sabrina Lloyd (Sliders, Numb3rs) and Sorkin alum Joshua Malina (who is now looking for work seeing as how his candidate is not THE candidate on West Wing), playing his character as typically brilliant but neurotic. It was a great ensemble cast with predictably outstanding writing. The show was great, but then again, I find most of Aaron Sorkin’s stuff to be way above par.
I mean West Wing, A Few Good Men, and The American President are all his creations along with Sports Night, but after a quick IMDB search I also find he worked on The Rock (I’m now sure some of the snappier dialogue is his and is part of what makes that movie so unabashedly great, Jerry Bruckheimer notwithstanding), Enemy of the State, and was asked by Spielberg to polish Schindler’s List. I’d have the man’s baby if I were a woman and he were more attractive.
So now, how can this new project possibly be better? Matthew Perry. He would play the brilliant comedy writer who’s asked to take charge of the sketch show. He had that short stint on West Wing, so he’s familiar with Sorkin and we all know him from Friends.
This show’s gonna have a ton of potential. I can’t wait!
posted by Drewby at
10:27 AM
7 Comments:
Actually, Joshua Malina is back on "The West Wing" as the Communications Director since Toby was fired for the NASA leak.
Dangit!
Well, maybe he'll leave when there's a new president and join Matt on Studio 7.
For whatever reason I found Malina annoying on Sports Night
Maybe they can get Felicity Huffman to carry her character from Transamerica over - now that would be breakthrough television.
You didn't like Malina on Sports Night?
"How in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOLE" can you say that?
=D I just wanted to use the quote.
I thought he seemed . . . dark-sided. AAARGH!! Dark-sided, gargyles, pslychics!
I never liked him from his spazzy interview to his effort to design software to choose a restaurant for him and Natalie to how he actually treated her in the relationship. The whole concept of the character seemed off.
Oh, and I do appreciate your quoting The Rock!
I will be watching. Sorkin's a genius, if for no other reason than, "I went to Stanford, you blowhole!"
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home