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A look back at The West Wing: Entertainment Weekly in 60 seconds

by Bob Sassone, posted May 7th 2006 2:54PM
  • Helen Hunt, Paul ReiserNBC might have canceled its West Wing retrospective for next Sunday, but EW gathers the cast and crew and goes down memory lane. Among the tidbits: Sidney Poitier was the first person talked about to play the President; producers offered Bradley Whitford the role of Sam, but he wanted to play Josh; John Spencer was the first person cast, but Sorkin had originally seen Judd Hirsch as Leo and had to rewrite the character for Spencer; Eugene Levy auditioned to play Toby; CCH Pounder auditioned to play C.J., as did Janel Moloney; and NBC bought the West Wing only if John Wells agreed to also do Third Watch.
  • Paris Bennett says "Don't be sad."
  • Gillian Flynn answers the question: what is the worst show to have a long run?
  • New DVDs: they give a B+ to the first and second season DVD set of The Facts of Life, and an A- for the Scrubs third season set.
  • Funny review of 7th Heaven by Ken Tucker, calling the series finale flashback "creepy."
  • Bruce Campbell gives a guest review of Supernatural. He says it's fun, but it's scare factor is too conservative and the lead actors pose too much.
  • A look at the new Lost tie-in book, Bad Twin.

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wilma

Why did they cancel the West Wing Retrospective...was it too boring??? Will it ever be aired??

May 07 2006 at 9:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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