WEst Wing??? WHY IS it not on??? is bush intimidated by sheen?

[greenbriar]

this last week was premire week and West Wing wasn't on and not on next week either.


what has shrub banned it until after the election???


hell if I were bush, I would be afraid of sheen as well. Even a TV president is better than the real life one

[merh]

1. I was wondering the same thing. Have they worked a deal with

the network to keep WestWing off the air until after the election. Last week the local fox affiliate that using airs syndicated episodes stopped airing them on Saturday afternoons and Sunday evenings. What is up with that?

[VolcanoJen]

2. It's coming back October 20th.

It's going to be a strange season... apparently, it's President Bartlett's last year in the White House, and they're going to introduce new characters as candidates.

In other words, they're probably about to swing to the right... big time. :-(

[briang5000]

3. this show usually premiere's late.

For some reason NBC always debuts this program later in the season.
In fact they may wait until after the World Series.

I think they only do 22 episodes and they try not to run many reruns... the show is difficult to re-run because the story lines carry over from week to week.

They delay the start of the season so they can stretch their 22 episodes through May.
The show will be pre-empted several times for specials and movies... but you'll rarely see a repeat.

In my opinion the program really suffered last year with the departure of Aaron Sorkin.
In fact the Bartlett administration didn't even seem to be the same liberal democrats from season one through 4 in the past year.

Pick up the DVD or watch a rerun from season 1-3 on Bravo. Those first 3 years were fantastic.

[VolcanoJen]

5. Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda are joining the cast this year.

It's Bartlett's last year as President, so they're going to phase him out and set up the show for Season 7.

Apparently, Smits is one of the candidates, a Texas congressman, who will run for the Democratic Party nomination; I hear that Senator (and former VP) Hoynes is going to run as well, which is strange considering the "sex scandal" that brought him down. Wasn't Hoynes from Texas, too?

What's really interesting is that Alan Alda will play a Republican senator running for his party's nomination. :D

Maybe it will be a good season... last season was absolutely horrible; it didn't even seem like the same show.

[MUSTANG_2004]

7. The reason they don't re-run TWW

is that re-runs of Law and Order do better in that timeslot.

Under Sorking the show was starting to slide, but the moment he left it fell off a cliff. The first two years it was "Must See", the 3rd year it was "See if convenient", and when Sorkin left it became "Avoid".

[NYCGirl]

4. Season premiere is October 20th. (eom)

NT

[Democrat 4 Ever]

6. I'm still a West Wingnut - love the show

This past season saw the quality of writing go down from years before. Sorkin was gone and the biting dialog, tight paced action between characters and plot line, etc. just wasn't up to the past.

I have the script books and it is amazing to read the darn things and realize how much more was going on in the show than you were able to catch during the first or even second viewing (or third, or fourth). Have the DVDs, watch the reruns, still thinking about getting the sweatshirt...) Still like the show tho, because even when I know it is fiction it is such a welcome relief to "pretend" that our president is smart and moral and fair and surrounds himself with ethical people and thinks for himself, as to face reality. Guess I am just wishing for the real thing but being forced to settle for the "if onlys." Until the real thing comes along, I'll just have my Bartlett for America crew. And work like the dickens for Kerry.

Like Alda but do not think I could watch the show with a republican president - like I say, sometimes reality bites. And right now it is biting big time. It will take America a lot of time to get over the last four years of Bush and his thugs.

[greenbriar]

8. It would not be the same without Sheen

if he leaves as president, I will no longer watch it

[Democrat 4 Ever]

9. I am reserving judgment

Said I would quit watching every time there was a staff change on M*A*S*H but I was a fan until the bitter end. Still watch the re-runs.

Thought there was no way Trapper John could be replaced but then came BJ, Blake segued into Potter, pompous Burns into even more pompous Winchester. If the writing is good a show can survive cast changes.

I'm hoping that Sorkin gets homesick for his baby, West Wing, and wants another Emmy or two for the mantle.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Yes, Bush had the show banned

He is also responsible for the ending of Friends and Frasier. He wanted to end Cedric The Entertainer, but Fox was plaiinging cancelling that show anyway.