Sorkin's 'Studio 60' means a lot to NBC, in more ways than one By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | July 22, 2006
PASADENA, Calif. -- It's inevitable, really. You start your inside-the-TV-industry pilot with a character ranting about how TV is corrupting our culture -- particularly those shows about eating worms and emulating millionaires -- and people are going to start wondering. Especially if the pilot is airing on the network that has given the world ``Fear Factor" and ``The Apprentice." In ``Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," his new drama about a sketch-comedy show, ``West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin doesn't hold back his critique of the industry that helped make him famous -- delivered by Judd Hirsch as the chief of a show reminiscent of ``Saturday Night Live." At a television writers' conference here yesterday, NBC president Kevin Reilly feigned innocence about Sorkin's target. ``I don't even know," Reilly said, ``if any of them were aimed specifically at NBC." ... http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2006/07/22/sorkins_studio_60_means_a_lot_to_nbc_in_more_ways_than_one/ Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
