Sorkin to go to HBO.
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I'll watch any show he works on.
Studio 60 frequently came across to me like Sorkin really wanted to be writing about a news show; there the characters mightn't seem so unintentionally incompetent and pretentious, since the news actually does matter in the way Sorkin seemed to think SNL does.
For me, watching comic writers walking around talking about politics ALL the time, struck me as disingenuous. I used to work at a sketch comedy theater, and the performers/writers were always talking about funny, how to make something funny, what is funny, they were consumed by making people laugh.
Not politics.
Studio 60 wasn't funny. It was too weird and frustrating watching a show about comedy and wishing there was some comedy. That's why 30 Rock is still with us. Also, the characters were pretentious blowhards. If that's what real people doing a comedy show are like, fine, but I don't want to know about it.
I guess I'm just not big on Sorkin's style. I didn't even stick with The West Wing after sampling a few eps.
I might watch this new show if it were about a Fox News style cable show. Imagine the satirical opportunities! You'd barely have to hire writers. Just hire people who used to work there to give you factual information.
I guess I'm just not big on Sorkin's style. I didn't even stick with The West Wing after sampling a few eps.
I might watch this new show if it were about a Fox News style cable show. Imagine the satirical opportunities! You'd barely have to hire writers. Just hire people who used to work there to give you factual information.
Well, I hope the show has actors playing over-the-top versions of themselves, because that's the rage nowadays!
Agreed. The characters in 60 walked around constantly discussing how important their work was; when in reality it was no more than a late night sketch comedy show. A sketch comedy show, BTW, where not one damn one of them was funny. It made the whole show imbalanced, labored, and tiresome. News, where you can forgive characters with puffed up egos believing they’re the center of the world, may work far better.
It was like Sorkin imported the tone of The West Wing wholesale, overlooking the difference in importance between the White House and a sketch comedy show. Even if the comedians had actually been funny (though they weren't, which just made them look even more pretentious), there's still a major disconnect there.
Fantastic news. Like Pere, I'll watch anything he works on (and I'm one of the few big fans of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip). Plus, I'm really excited about the notion of him working on HBO. Hopefully this will allow him the creative room to really stretch out like David Simon and Tom Fontana.
Sorkin talked a little about the new show..and other upcoming projects in this BBC interview:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12250832
I hope the show will be at least as good as West Wing was
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12250832
I hope the show will be at least as good as West Wing was
Remember how in Studio 60 there was a hotshot young writer who wanted to make a show about the UN and the fictional version of Sorkin told him to go to HBO instead?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Remember how in Studio 60 there was a hotshot young writer who wanted to make a show about the UN and the fictional version of Sorkin told him to go to HBO instead?
Yeah.
The circle is complete.
I'd watch that. Sports Night is one of my favourite sit-coms, it really deserved a couple more seasons.
I'm happy they gave it a second, the ratings didn't deserve a second.
I'll watch. I think WW is one of the great pieces of American television (and I'm not American). Studio 60, good but not so much. For me, the female roles were completetly miscast. Amanda Peet as a hard nosed network head? Really? Too doe-like, and getting pregnant so early in it, silly silly silly. And the character of the religious female lead comedian was really hard to like.
Aside from S60, I think this'll be good.
Aside from S60, I think this'll be good.
I liked Studio 60, didn't know it wasn't very highly regarded. I'll probably check this out.
It was cancelled after ...what... 12 episodes? It tanked in the ratings, well, certainly tanked for how expensive it was.
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