One of my favorite TV critics is Alan Sepinwall, from the Newark
Star-Ledger, which is for all intents and purposes my hometown paper. He and his "All TV" partner, Matt Zoller Seitz, put out an excellent
joint column just about every day in the Ledger, examining not only particular shows but trends in TV, bad
behavior by the networks, and how TV affects society at large. Kind of what we do here, but in a bit longer form. And
with less jokes.
What I didn't know about Sepinwall, though is that he also has a blog. And in his blog, he gets to speculate on things going on in the TV biz that he doesn't get to write about in the paper. It's fairly private; NJ.com doesn't link to the page, and it doesn't show up in many searches for Sepinwall's work. An entry, though, has caught people's attention: Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, the original brains behind The West Wing, are on the list of panelists representing the show on the upcoming critic's press tour. Sepinwall speculates that Sorkin and Schlamme will come back to write and direct either a farewell episode for Leo, played by the late John Spencer, or do the same for the final episode. Hm. Verrrrryyy IN-teresting.
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1-05-2006 @ 5:19PM
Bob Sassone said...
Oh, this would be great. I was hoping for something like this to happen. And if Sorkin comes back, you can pretty much be guaranteed Rob Lowe will too.
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