Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

This is very interesting news and completely surprised me! I like Richard Schiff an I think he was great on the West Wing but I didn't expect to see any more Wingers on the show! If he is joining the cast, he must be replacing Weber's character as he is the only one avaiable spot now. Well, I think it would be a terrible decision to add Joshua Malina to the cast soon as well as it would be completely West Wing. Nonetheless, this is good news and good for Richard Schiff!
 

Wait a second....is this an April's Fools Joke? Cause I haven't heard it anywhere else....btw when u said: "Steven Weber, long-rumored to no longer be cast as NBS President Jack Rudolph, has been officially revealed to no longer be off the project." Does that mean he is on the project or off? Your wording is a bit confusing. Anyways, if this was an April's Fools, curse u!
 

no way. gotta be april fools.
 

Chris, you do realise that in some parts of the world that it isn't April Fools any more... [Grin]
 

Haha, well then, Ozzy, in those parts of the world I guess I'm just a liar.

APRIL FOOL'S!
 

Even if I'm 13 minutes late...

you're still a meanie :P
 

Good joke, but Schiff made this seem too obvious as the april fool's joke it was. Going with the Sorkin connection, maybe instead if you had said Josh Charles. Or if you want to tweak the WW fans, maybe if you had said Moira Kelly....
 

At the time of the morning I'm reading this, I'm now very sad.

But mainly because I want the West Wing to live forever as it did in Season 4.
 

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Oh, Chris, you stink....

But, a gal can dream, no?
 

Damn . too bad this is just an April Fool's Joke because I honestly think the addition of Richard Schiff would add a truly neat dimension to this show--even if he's not replacing Steven Weber. I also think that the TV world has become devoid of truly smart women since Allison Janney has been off the air. I think she'd make a more believable network president than the kittenish character Amanda Peet created in Jordan McDeere. But that would make it too much West Wing goes Hollywood.

Face it--we loved West Wing. .otherwise we wouldn't have jumped on this so fast. Studio 60 grows on you, but it was the additions of Bradley Whitford, Tim Busfield, and Mathew Perry (yes, he was on Friends, but it was his West Wing appearance that earned him the role of Matt Albie)that drew us to this show to begin with.

So, if the Studio 60 ship sinks (and I really hope it doesn't--just return re-tooled); what arena do you hope Aaron Sorkin tries next? Since the field is over saturated with medical and crime dramas--how about: the airline industry (think LAX, but intelligent), Congress (get out of the White House but stick with something that worked), storm chasers (ala the Weather Channel meets Twister); talk radio; movie studio--hey, as long as Snuffy Walden does the theme music (hopefully for longer than S60s opening credits--I love that theme wish I could hear more of it!) I think we'd have something we all like.

Meanwhile, finger crossed that the only fools will be the ones that counted s60 out too soon. Sadly, it's not looking that way.