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[bryant]

Bravo started airing reruns of West Wing today with a six show marathon, so of course I watched the whole thing. Now I really recognize the vibe Mr. Sterling failed to achieve. Yep, that’s Sorkin, all right.

I liked it OK. Snappy dialogue, noble and honest politicians and staffers. My new theory is that Democratic resentment of Bush arises from his failure to live up to the example set by President Bartlet. (Sure, I’m joking.) But it’s a good show, and I like the impossibly witty characters.

So here’s my million dollar TV show idea. It’s a one hour drama, set in, say, Chicago. It focuses on a few families which are linked in some unlikely fashion; some are rich, some are poor, but all of them are doing something that matters. Oh, I know: it’s a newspaper drama! So you can have the spunky young hungry reporter and her husband and the editor and the owner and so on.

Half an hour of each show is written by Joss Whedon. Half an hour is written by Aaron Sorkin. Whedon owns the teenage kids. Sorkin owns the grownups. They can always throw plot twists at each other; Sorkin has to have the owner react when his daughter is caught smoking pot with the son of the hungry reporter, for example.

Ratings gold. The only problem with it is that David Kelley will be very miffed at being left out.

Comments

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Half an hour of each show is written by Joss Whedon. Half an hour is written by Aaron Sorkin. Whedon owns the teenage kids. Sorkin owns the grownups.

I like it! But I think you should set it in Japan. Then you could call it "Raw & Older".

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Get it? Get it?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Cause Japanese people often switch their Ls and their Rs, see, and young people are “raw” and older people are “older,” right, and there’s already this TV show that’s split into two haves…

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

The post of 3 lies:

That should say "two halfs", and it's not really 3:00 am, and I'm just being a dork.

[bryant]

Horrifyingly, I kind of like that title.

[ogier30.livejournal.com]

Okay, so we get David Kelley to produce and he can handle the casting.

Dick Wolf comes aboard as executive producer. We call it PEN & INK or something.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

so, basically you're talking about "lou grant: the next generation"

also, i think one of the problems gore had in the 2000 elections is that he was running against bush and against bartlett.

[gwenix.livejournal.com]

What's scarier is that there's been quite a bit of mentioning from poll takings that people think that the show, The West Wing, shows the actual White House, and so favor GWB more for it.

When truth is stranger than fiction category.