Is The Newsroom's Aaron Sorkin Done With TV? He's Got An Answer
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Metascore75
- 2006-2007
- 1 season
- NBC
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-14
A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy television show.
- Metascore75
- 2006-2007
- 1 season
- NBC
- Comedy, Drama
- TV-14
A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy television show.
Emmy Watch: Streaming for a Win
Orange Is the New Black could lead to Emmy gold. The Netflix series is poised to become the first Outstanding Comedy nominee from a streaming service, just as House of Cards broke the drama barrier in 2013. (The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has allowed programs from digital services to compete against broadcast and cable series since 2008.) Chances of earning some nods — nominations will be announced on July 10 — might increase, thanks to the buzz and marketing surrounding the launch of Orange's second season, which was released in its entirety on June 6. Netflix has focused much of its "For Your Consideration" Emmy campaign on the prison comedy, which didn't receive a series Golden Globe nomination for its first season but was nominated for Program of the Year and Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association as well as Best Comedy Series by the Critics' Choice Television Awards. House of Cards is expected to secure its second nod for Outstanding Drama Series.
Scoop: Law & Order: SVU Nabs Bradley Whitford, Ann Curry for Guest Roles
Bradley Whitford is returning to his dramatic roots for a guest spot on Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned. The West Wing alum, who currently stars on...
CBS Orders Pilot for Matthew Perry's Odd Couple
CBS has given a pilot order to Matthew Perry's Odd Couple reboot, TVGuide.com has learned. Perry will...
Matthew Perry to Star in Odd Couple Reboot for CBS
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Pilot Season: NBC Orders Drama from West Wing, House Producers
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Studio 60 Reunion! Bradley Whitford to Guest-Star on Go On
Go On will host a Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip reunion next year! Bradley Whitford has landed a guest-starring role on Matthew Perry's NBC sitcom Go On, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Go On spies Covert Affairs' Piper Perabo for multi-episode arc Whitford, who will appear in an episode titled "A Ring and a Miss," will play...
Matthew Perry: Nobody Knew If Go On Was Going to Work
Go On was one of the first three new shows to earn a full-season pickup this fall, and its success comes as big of a surprise to the cast and crew as it may anyone else."Nobody knew whether it was going to work," Matthew Perry told reporters on a conference call. "Nobody knew, really, whether people were going to laugh at these sad situations."Fall TV Popularity Contest: Vote for your favorite new shows!The show's premise reads more like a drama than a comedy: Sportscaster Ryan King (Perry) attends group therapy to deal with his wife's death. But Perry believes the series — or more specifically, creator/executive producer Scott Silveri, with whom he worked on Friends — has managed to find ...
Ask Matt: Glee vs. Grey's, White Collar, Army Wives, Morning TV and More
Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: So you know that Glee is moving to Thursdays at 9/8c, though I haven't the slightest clue why. Anyways, it is going up against my all-time favorite, Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, I know half of TV viewers say the show has run its course, blah blah blah. But I just can't shake it, and I'm just too invested to stop now. My question, actually it's not even a question of Grey's ...
The Newsroom: Aaron Sorkin Takes on the Media
In an early scene of HBO's new Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom, a college student asks the show's hero, Will McAvoy, why the U.S. is the best country in the world.Summer Preview: Check out more must-watch new shows It's a vapid question, to be sure, but Will's mean-spirited answer — he says simply that it isn't, and then rattles off a withering, Sorkinian litany of statistics about literacy, life expectancy and infant mortality that prove his point — is both electrifying and kind of depressing.Will (Jeff Daniels, in his first TV series role) is a moderate Republican cable news anchor whose show, "News Night," has succeeded in the ratings because Will has played it safe, journalistically speaking. (One critic calls him the "Jay Leno of news anchors.") When we first meet him, he's in a rut, and his staff, none too impressed with his very public tantrum, has decided to seek other employment....
The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg Heads to Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom
Jesse Eisenberg will reunite with The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin in his new HBO drama The Newsroom, Entertainment Weekly reports. Eisenberg, who portrayed Mark Zuckerberg in the Oscar nominated film, has landed...
Watch the Trailer for HBO's Aaron Sorkin Series The Newsroom
HBO has released a trailer for Aaron Sorkin's new drama series, The Newsroom.As The West Wing creator has done before with Sports Night and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Sorkin again offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at a television show.
Pilot Season: Friends' Matthew Perry to Star in NBC's Go On Comedy
Matthew Perry is returning to his old stomping grounds after landing a leading role in NBC's Go On pilot. In the comedy...
Matthew Perry Joins the Cast of The Good Wife
It sounds like The Good Wife's Alicia may have a new frenemy: Matthew Perry.The Friends star has signed on for a recurring role on the legal drama, CBS announced Friday. Perry will play Mike, a charming attorney who's leading the panel that's investigating a suspicious ...
Drop Dead Diva's Josh Stamberg Joins Castle
Drop Dead Diva's Josh Stamberg has signed on for a two-episode arc on ABC's Castle, TVLine.com reports. As TVGuide.com first reported, the two-episode February sweeps event will feature The Chicago Code's Jennifer Beals as a sexy CIA operative who helps Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic) in the search for a fellow CIA agent who has gone rogue and is a suspect in their murder case. Exclusive: Castle books Jennifer Beals for two-parter Stamberg...
Sarah Paulson to Channel Spirits on FX's American Horror Story
American Horror Story has tapped Sarah Paulson to channel other-worldly spirits on the upcoming FX thriller, E! Online reports. Paulson, 35, will recur in...
Ask Matt: Good Wife vs. Body of Proof, ABC Soaps, Upstairs Downstairs More!
Send questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter!Question: I would like to know your opinion about the Kalinda/Peter reveal on The Good Wife. My initial reaction was concern for Kalinda's and Alicia's friendship. However, in the past week, I have become intrigued by the potential fallout. Not only will this revelation shake the Florrick family, but after two years into the series, it could impact characters like Kalinda, Will, Cary and Eli in a way that the original scandal never did. Also, while overall viewership remains strong, Wife's 18-49 demo has been rather low this season. New competition from Body of Proof will probably not help the situation. Should fans of The Good Wife be concerned about potential cancellation or at least be prepared for a scheduling change for season three? — RoseMatt Roush: This twist is what we like to call a bona fide bombshell. Couldn't come at a more advantageous time for the show, which thrives on personal and workplace conflict...
Will Steven Weber Woo Sarah on Parenthood?
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Jeff Daniels in Talks to Star in Aaron Sorkin's HBO Pilot
Jeff Daniels is nearing a deal to star in Aaron Sorkin's HBO pilot set at a cable news show, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Daniels, 56, would play Will McCallister, the host of his own cable news show. The project goes behind the scenes of the show, following him, his...
Amanda Peet Cast in NBC Sitcom Pilot
Amanda Peet has landed the lead in NBC's romantic comedy pilot Bent, TV Line reports. Get more of today's news The single-camera project, from former Scrubs producer Tad Quill, will focus on ...
HBO Orders Aaron Sorkin Cable News Drama
HBO has given a pilot order to Aaron Sorkin's new drama, Deadline reports. Written by The Social Network scribe, the series will focus on...
Steven Weber, D.L. Hughley Join TNT Pilot
Steven Weber and D.L. Hughley have signed on to star in TNT's Allan Loeb pilot, according to Deadline.com. The untitled project, based on The Rabbit Factory novel by Marshall Karp, follows two Los Angeles detectives. Weber, 49, will portray...
Exclusive: D.L. Hughley, Gina Gershon Enroll in TBS' Glory Daze
D.L. Hughley, Gina Gershon and Michael McKean are heading back to college as guest stars on TBS' Glory Daze, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Hughley (The Hughleys, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) will play Coach Franklin, a man desperate to be a father, and McKean (Smallville, Best in Show) will play the quirky and passionate head of campus maintenance. Gershon (Rescue Me, Bound) plays a tough-as-nails military instructor determined to whip her students into fighting machines.Fall TV: Get scoop on more new showsThe trio of guest stars follow Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett and Saturday Night Live's Cheri Oteri, who appear in the pilot.Glory Daze is a 1980s-set college comedy that centers on four freshmen...
Singer Robbie Williams Marries
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Exclusive: Nickelodeon Orders Live-Action Movie Adaptation of The Fairly Oddparents
Nickelodeon has green-lit a live-action TV-movie adaptation of its hit animated series The Fairly Oddparents, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The movie, titled A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner!, will mix live action with CG animation and will follow a now-23-year-old Timmy, to be played by ...
It's a Girl for Amanda Peet!
Amanda Peet welcomed her second daughter a bit earlier than expected. Check out photos of Amanda Peet The actress was scheduled to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday to promote her new film Please Give, but instead, she went into labor late Monday and delivered daughter Molly June Benioff, according to People. Peet and screenwriter husband David Benioff (Troy, 25th Hour), also have a 3-year-old daughter named Frances, who reportedly wanted to name her younger sibling ...
The Dramatist: How Aaron Sorkin Made Politics Entertaining
With The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin made it cool to care about politics. Sorkin's band of quippy White House staffers and a president who was hard not to love helped him walk the line between politics and entertainment and score repeated Emmy wins. We chatted with Sorkin, one of the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, about his beloved political drama, why it struck a chord with viewers, and how a similar approach to melding Hollywood and Washington hurt his follow-up, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
D.L. Hughley Is One "Unapologetic" S.O.B.
Last year at this time, comedian D.L. Hughley was on one of the hottest shows on TV. At least that's what everyone thought Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip would be until it slowly faded away into irrelevancy. Nonetheless, Hughley quickly moved on and is now going off in his new HBO stand-up special, "Unapologetic" (airing Saturday at 10 pm/ET). Here, Hughley talks about why he's not looking for forgiveness, the reason he thinks Studio 60 tanked, and whether or not he can take a joke like the victims on his recent BET hidden-camera show, S.O.B. TVGuide.com: Why is the special called "Unapologetic"?D.L. Hughley: Because nowadays when anybody passi
Studio 60, Ugly Betty, the Big Ten and More Short Cuts
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip arrives on DVD Oct. 16 in a six-disc, 22-episode set.... Tonight's the night that ABC's 20/20 sticks its nose in Dateline: To Catch a Predator's business. The sucker punches start at 10 pm/ET.... Marlo Thomas will guest on Ugly Betty this fall as a jewelry company owner with a "thing" for younger men — namely, Daniel.... ABC Family's Lincoln Heights set a series high with its Tuesday Season 2 premiere, drawing 1.6 million total viewers. That's a 14 percent increase over the show's January launch.... EchoStar's Dish Network has agreed to host the Big Ten Network, and just in time for this weekend's college football games, says TV Week.
Men in Trees, Steve Martin and More Short Cuts!
Reminder, tonight at 10 pm/ET marks the series finale of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as well as the return (albeit just repeats) of Men In Trees, starting with the pilot episode.... TNT/TBS have snatched up cable rights to Rush Hour 3, six weeks before it even hits theaters. Per Variety, the price tag will be 12 percent of the domestic gross.... Steve Martin is penning his autobiography, Born Standing Up, to hit stores in November. (I just started Chevy Chase's bio and it's... OK).... Bridge to Terabithia and Ghost Rider topped last week's DVD sales and rental charts, respectively.
Love Notes: Studio 60 Star Delivers, and More!
Amanda Peet had planned to attend a Hollywood luncheon on Wednesday, but instead decided to order one baby girl, to go, the New York Post's Page Six reports. It's the first child for Peet and screenwriter hubby David Benioff. In related news, The Black Donnellys is now pregnant.... Father of the Bride's daughter is a mother. Kimberly Williams-Paisley (According to Jim) welcomed her and husband Brad Paisley's first child, a son, on Thursday, says People.... Nick Cannon wedded on a whim Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks last weekend in Las Vegas, says Us.
Studio 60's Black-out Arrives Early
Having delivered its smallest audience to date this past Monday night, NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will cede its 10 pm time slot to The Black Donnellys a week sooner than planned, starting Feb. 26, reports Variety. The Donnellys' fast-tracked premiere gives it an extra week on the air with a first-run lead-in from Heroes (which lapses into repeats Mar. 12).
Got any Studio 60 scoop?
Question: Got any Studio 60 scoop?Answer: Forgive me if this is already out there, but an upcoming episode will flash back to show the early days of Matt and Harriet's courtship.
Laura Innes Reveals Why She's Leaving the ER
It's goodbye to the last remaining — well, almost — original ER cast member. Tonight Kerry Weaver hangs up her scrubs and leaves Chicago's County General for warmer climes (Florida) to deliver medical news for a prestigious TV station. Laura Innes, who has played the irascibly endearing doc for 11 and a half seasons, gives us the dish on why she needs an abrupt exit, her years on the long-running hit show, and what she's up to next. TVGuide.com: Say it ain't so! After nearly 12 years, Dr. Kerry Weaver's leaving County General for good?Laura Innes: Yeah. There's some talk of her coming back a little bit next year, but we'll see. TVGuide.com: In what way?Innes: There's an idea about integrating her new job on the medical show into a story line. Part of that thinking had t
Since I don't believe it, or ...
Question: Since I don't believe it, or understand it, unless it comes from you, can you please tell me what is going on with Studio 60? Is it going to get canceled?Answer: NBC already ordered a full season's worth of episodes, so it would appear to be safe until May. But if the ratings don't improve, I highly doubt it'll see a second year. Stranger things have happened though.
NBC Rocks Writers Guild Nods
With six nominations — including a pair for 30 Rock — NBC has bested the rest going into this year's Writers Guild Awards, to be held Feb. 11, 2007. In the comedy category, 30 Rock's staff of scribes is joined by their peers at The Office, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm and, yes, Arrested Development. On the drama side, it's Grey's Anatomy versus Lost, 24, Deadwood and The Sopranos.Vying for best new series are 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Heroes, Studio 60 and Ugly Betty.
Ratings: Almost 16 Mil Attend Heroes Homecoming
Which milestones were achieved this Monday? Take a look:— Prison Break hit a season high, with 9.58 million total viewers.— Falling juuuust shy of 16 million viewers, Heroes set yet another series high. (And how about Eden goin' all Superman II Ursa on us?)— During the 10 o'clock hour, both Studio 60 (down 480K, to 7.31 mil) and What About Brian (slipping 250,000, to 5.35 million) sank to series lows.
Did the Right Kind of Viewers Save Studio 60?
NBC confirmed on Thursday afternoon that it has ordered nine additional episodes — for a full-season slate of 22 — of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, this despite disappointing ratings for the big-budget drama. But in announcing the pickup, NBC hinted that exactly who fills Studio 60's audience may have been a factor in its good, if surprising, fortune: The series boasts one of prime time's highest concentrations of affluent and college-educated viewers. So all you dirt-poor, high-school dropouts, go ahead and stick with What About Brian.
Studio 60, Smith Find Different Salvations
Not long after TVGuide.com reported on the full-season pickup for ABC's Men in Trees (which will now air after Grey's Anatomy), the Ausiello Report scooped similar good news for fans of NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Mike has more here.... Ray Liotta's Smith, meanwhile, is still dead, done, finito, fork-impaled, but CBS.com is streaming four never-broadcast episodes on its Innertube broadband channel, starting today. Also, a synopsis of how the producers planned to resolve the serialized drama's first season will be posted on the series' site at CBS.com.
NBC Sticks Up for Studio 60, Hides Kidnapped
In a statement to MediaPost, an NBC rep refutes talk — fueled by a recent Fox News report — that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is thisclose to being axed. The missive reiterates that NBC recently ordered three more scripts for the struggling Monday series, and maintains that the show, at this point, still "is profitable." The buzz here in the TV Guide hallways is that NBC will wait to see the numbers for one more Studio 60 airing before making any major decisions, while MediaPost says that a time-slot change, not all-out cancellation, is a more likely first remedy. On a related note, NBC has pulled the already humiliated Kidnapped from its sad Saturday burn-off berth for the duration of November sweeps, replacing it with Law & Order: CI reruns.KIDNAPPED UPDATE: It's just been whispered in my ear that, as we speak, Kidnapped is wrapping production on its 13th and final episode, and that the entire demi-season "is bound to have a life on DVD." As for the broadcast airing...
So, Friday Night Lights is ...
Question: So, Friday Night Lights is now the one show that I absolutely will not miss! Please say A) the ratings were amazing on Monday night, B) you have some news about upcoming story lines and C) you will spend the next month of your life promoting the heck out of it.Answer: A) The ratings weren't amazing, but they were higher than Studio 60's last several telecasts, B) a hottie from Smash's past will resurface later this season, and Lyla will be the target of an Internet smear campaign when word of her infidelity gets out (you hear that, Pam?) and C) done.
I think if Studio 60 isn't ...
Question: I think if Studio 60 isn't "destination" TV for you, it may be time to find a new career. Really, killer stuff on Gilmore Girls, though.Answer: You watch Gilmore Girls!?!? Um, last time I checked, Matt was a boy's name.
Good-ish news for Studio 60, The Nine, Two Others
The Hollywood trades are reporting this morning that additional script orders have been awarded to ABC's The Nine, Men in Trees and Help Me Help You (four each), as well as NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (for three). Traditionally, such script orders are a decent precursor to a full-season pickup, though it must be noted that the "vote of confidence" didn’t work out particularly well for last season's Threshold, E-Ring or Out of Practice. In related news, NBC has ordered an extra, 25th episode of ER for this season, while ABC has snipped its order for the mid-season series Traveler from 13 episodes to eight.
Forget the Cheerleader — Save NBC
NBC jumped the shark in 2004.The Apprentice was the hottest show on television. We're talking absolute must see TV that was oozing buzz. NBC tried to capitalize on the show's success and put all their eggs in the Donald's reality basket.I said it then, and I'm saying it now — moving The Apprentice to anchor Thursday nights sent the network right over the fin. ABC learned its lesson with Millionaire. CBS always had CSI and Everybody Loves Raymond to go with Survivor and The Amazing Race.Thursday nights belonged to NBC. It lost Friends and Frasier (which had jumped the shark years ago) and had nothing in the pipeline. First to fourth wasn't an "if", it was a "when".I understand how tempting it is to lead off each night with a game show or reality show (i.e. inexpensive show). It's also another big mistake. Deal or No Deal is getting pummeled into the ground as I type as the contestants get more and more "wacky".So you're Jeff Zucker... what do you do? Glad you asked.1. Pluck C...
Ratings: What About... Studio 60?
Monday's juiciest ratings stories: — 8 pm titan Deal or No Deal surged with 2 million viewers to achieve a new season-best audience of 17.27 mil.— The Class simmered down a bit from its new time-slot premiere high (to 8.7 mil).— The CW's first Monday batch of fresh Chris-All of Us-Girlfriends-The Game episodes averaged 2.9 million for the night. That's 230,000 fewer than were watching 7th Heaven-Runaway, but a 400,000 bump from the quartet's most recent Sunday numbers.— And last, but not by any means least noteworthy: What About Brian (up 1.2 mil, to 8.3) bested Studio 60 (down a mil, to 7.76) to claim 10 o'clock's No. 2 spot. Aaron Sorkin, you're buying J.J. Abrams dinner.
Smallville spoilers, please?
Question: Smallville spoilers, please?Answer: Here's a spoiler wrapped in a riddle: Smallville has four couples now — Lana and Lex; Lois and Oliver/Green Arrow; Chloe and Jimmy; Martha and Lionel. Which one will be expecting by Thanksgiving? Place your bets now!
Can you give me a yes or no, ...
Question: Can you give me a yes or no, in your opinion, as to whether the following new shows will make it? The Class, Studio 60, Jericho, Men in Trees, Ugly Betty and The Nine?Answer: Yes, no, yes, yes, frak yeah and maybe.
Ratings: Two Million More Show Up for Class
CBS sure looked smart this week as The Class, in its new 8:30 pm time slot, drew an additional two million viewers (for a total of 10 mil). Paired with How I Met Your Mother (9.7 mil) in the 8 o'clock hour, the sitcombo placed second behind Deal or No Deal (15.2 mil).At 9 pm, the big week-to-week gainers were Two and a Half Men (up 1.1 million to 17.1 mil), which ruled the hour with Old Christine (13.7 mil) and NBC's Heroes (13.3 mil, up 700,000). At 10, CSI: Miami found yet another 600,000 heads, bringing its unbeatable tally to just shy of 18 million. Placing a distant second and third were Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (8.75 mil, down 300,000) and the season premiere of What About Brian, which with 7.05 million lost a full mil of lead-in The Bachelor's audience.As for the CW's own schedule shuffle, let's grade it "Incomplete," as the network rebroadcast the premieres of former Sunday occupants Chris, All of Us, Girlfriends and The Game — all of which lost to Fox's own repeat...
Amazing Race Cheerleaders Are D! O! N! E!
Kellie and Jamie had hoped to be the first female team to win The Amazing Race. They wanted to joke with Phil [Keoghan], see Madagascar or Vietnam, and maybe spend some of the cash they slyly made off their looks during the first leg (more on that later). But, as is always the case in a globe-trotting contest, you don't always get what you want. And, after they made a wrong turn during the second leg's detour, the cheerleaders from South Carolina became the third team eliminated from The Amazing Race 10. TV Guide.com: How many vaccination shots did you have to get before you started the race?Kellie: Oh gosh, it was a lot.Jamie: Seven or eight. TVGuide.com: What was the weirdest?Kellie: We had
Please give us die-hard ...
Question: Please give us die-hard Sorkinites scoop on Studio 60!Answer: Even though the ratings cooled off a bit this week, there's promising news from our friends over at TiVo. The show currently ranks No. 12 on their most-requested Season Pass list, ahead of The Office, ER, Boston Legal, Nip/Tuck, Dancing with the Stars, etc. Hey, you gotta to take the good news where you can get it.
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