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The West Wing cancelled

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NBC Can­cels ‘West Wing’ After 7 Seasons

PASADENA, Calif. — The new pres­id­ent on “The West Wing” will be a real short-timer: NBC announced Sunday it was pulling the plug on the Emmy-winning polit­ical drama in May after seven seasons.

Appar­ently the decision was made before John Spencer’s death, but I’m sure that clinched the deal.

The West Wing was a show I had always been mean­ing to see. I only star­ted watch­ing it last year, but it’s quickly become my favour­ite show. The char­ac­ters are enga­ging, and their flaws make them very real and believ­able. The quick-paced wit littered through­out the scripts also makes it very quot­able. While it’ll be sad to see it go, now seems to be an appro­pri­ate time. Without Aaron Sor­kin, the show hasn’t been able to reach it’s early sea­son glory days.

There’s going to be an hour-long ret­ro­spect­ive, before the series finale. Unfor­tu­nately Sor­kin is not going to be involved in that. The pres­id­en­tial elec­tion takes placed before the end, so I’m guess­ing we’ll fin­ish with a mont­age of Santos/Vinick’s inaug­ur­a­tion as Bart­let and Co look on. We’ll soon know as it should pop up on chan­nel BT soon after May 14.

Mrs. Land­ing­ham Fiderer, what’s next?

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  • Vee
    January 23rd, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    I guess com­mander in chief will super­cede it in that genre. The real ques­tion is when does the ABC start its West Wings tele­cast — I know that they’re start­ing at the start of sea­son 4 but when?

  • deckchair guru
    January 23rd, 2006 at 8:36 pm

    I’m saddened at this news… I have seen every epis­ode to date — Sea­son 7, epis­ode 11 has just aired, and the new sea­son isn’t bad. It does drag a bit — a whole sea­son cov­er­ing an ele­cion gets dull.

    Sor­kin wrote a great series, with enga­ging char­ac­ters and plots that swept you up.

    Sam Seaborn was my avour­ite char­ac­ter, and I still rate his “The Streets of Heaven are too full of Angels tonight” as one of the best speeches not delivered in real life.

    I’m sad… this show has become a staple. I haven’t felt this way since they stopped mak­ing Inspector Gad­get (the first time).

    Go go Gad­get Line-of-Succession!

  • Dan
    January 26th, 2006 at 12:32 am

    It’ll prob­ably start when the rat­ings sea­sons begins again.

    I agree the streets of heaven speech was bril­liant. For a Hol­ly­wood hack, Sor­kin can really write.

  • vee
    February 5th, 2006 at 10:31 pm

    ABC TV is proud to screen the highly-acclaimed US drama series The West Wing Series 4 from Thursday Feb­ru­ary 23 at 9.30pm start­ing with a movie length instal­ment titled 20 Hours in America.

  • Dan
    February 7th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    Cool, thats the double epis­ode with the Streets of heaven speech.

    ‚Ķsecur­ing peace in a time of global con­flict, sus­tain­ing hope in this winter of anxi­ety and fear. More than any time in recent his­tory America’s des­tiny is not of our own choos­ing. We did not seek nor did we pro­voke an assault on our freedoms and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a con­front­a­tion with evil. Yet the true meas­ure of a people’s strength is how they rise to mas­ter that moment when it does arrive.

    Forty four people were killed a couple of hours ago at Ken­neson State Uni­ver­sity. Three swim­mers from the men’s team were killed and two oth­ers are in crit­ical con­di­tion when after hav­ing heard the explo­sion from their prac­tice facil­ity they ran into the fire to help get people out. Ran into the fire. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight. They’re our stu­dents and our teach­ers and our par­ents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight.

    But every time we’ve meas­ured our capa­city to meet a chal­lenge we look up and we’re reminded that that capa­city may well be lim­it­less. This is a time for Amer­ican her­oes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for Amer­ican her­oes and we reach for the stars.

  • Millennial
    February 9th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    I too am dis­ap­poin­ted. I watched quite a few epis­odes of sea­son 1, but then chan­nel nine changed the time slot to a really late time when I had class early the next morn­ing. I will make a point of watch­ing the ABC telecast.

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