Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

By Chris Beaumont This is the show that Aaron Sorkin started after The West Wing ended its run. That was a show I did not watch, never cared for the political stuff. Unfortunately, this only went one season. Fortunately, that leaves us wth 22 episodes ...

By Diane Kristine The Emmy nominations were good to a person whose 2006/07 television season consisted mostly of House, The Office, 30 Rock, and Ugly Betty. Scrubs was in my viewing schedule too, but that had an off year, as did Studio 60, even though I stuck it out to the sappy end.

By Diane Kristine Diane writes, edits, and web geeks for health care by day, obsesses about television, books and other trappings of pop culture by night. She writes an awful lot about House, and also runs a site to promote Canadian television, called TV, Eh? What's Up in Canadian Television.

By Diane Kristine Denis McGrath, a blogger and TV writer, mentioned that critics often review the pilot episode, but what he appreciates is the reconsidered review, when the show has found its footing. It works both ways: sometimes a praised pilot turns into a mess of a series half way through the season (St...

By Tony Figueroa Every fall we still see new "behind the scenes" shows. Some of these shows hit and others miss. My wife pointed out to me that classic situation comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show was more about the life of Mary Richards than a behind the scenes look at a television newsroom. Perhaps we should stud...

By Diane Kristine I started the season loving Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and with mixed feelings about 30 Rock. I'm ending it happy about the news that NBC renewed 30 Rock and mixed feelings about Studio 60.  While I mourn NBC's presumed cancellation of the pre-Christmas Studio 60, I can't summon any sadnes...

By Marlowesbeef I do have to thank NBC for one thing. Thanks boys for freeing up my schedule. Now I have no reason to watch NBC on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. And since Studio 60 was the only thing I watched on Mondays I've got the whole night to devote to my reading. Amazon along with Barnes & Noble thank you.

By Daniel J. Stasiewski It even makes me forget that the show will bump Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip from the NBC lineup. In spite of the electronic music soundtrack, the annoyingly misleading narrator, and a cast made for a CW teen drama, I want to see Tommy ...

By Peter Chakerian NBC so obviously feared Studio 60 would get destroyed by CBS's CSI and ABC's Grey's Anatomy, that execs there decided a reactionary move to Monday nights at 10 PM might just save the show... before they had really tried it elsewhere. Instead of focusing on the show’s star power – Sorkin and the...

By Peter Chakerian A bastard stepchild ensemble dramedy called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, ... and the all-star lineup of Bradley Whitford, ten-year Friend Matthew Perry, ... Globe nominee Sarah Paulson was nominated for her role as Harriet Hayes. ...

By Diane Kristine I waver between love and like of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. ... It’s not The West Wing. It’s not even Sports Night. ... who are not only reveling in Aaron Sorkin’s supposed fall from grace, but hoping to accelerate that fall. ...

By Diane Kristine But, like some of the worst romantic comedies, Studio 60 has veered into stalker fantasy. I was willing to overlook it when Danny told Jordan in the Christmas episode: “You'd better run, because I’m coming after you.” Just a figure of speech, after all.

By Nick Schweitzer Nevada Day is a two part episode which concluded this week, and includes John Goodman as a small town Nevada judge controlling the fate of several Studio 60 actors. The episode begins with Tom Jeeter (Nathan Corddry) and Simon Stiles (D.L. Hughley) sitting in a small sheriff's office waitin...

By Nick Schweitzer The basic conflict set up in the episode is over a quote of Harriet Hayes's (Sarah Paulson) in a magazine where she says that according to the Bible, homosexuality is a sin, but also that "thou shalt not judge lest ye be judged," and ...

By Eric Berlin Studio 60, a drama that goes behind-the-scenes at a Saturday Night Live-esque nationally televised show, is a show held (and which holds itself) to nearly impossible standards: it must reflect the "real world" of live television production, it must be groundbreaking or at least issu...

By Nick Schweitzer While Sports Night was centered on a sports newscast similar to ESPN's Sports Center, Studio 60 centers around an SNL-style sketch comedy show on a network called NBS, which is no doubt an homage to the network paying for Studio 60.

By Tony Figueroa I watched the pilot of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip with my wife and when it was over, she said, "He's back."  "He" being Aaron Sorkin, the Emmy Award-winning executive producer/writer of The West Wing. Sorkin, along with Emmy Award-winning executive producer/director of The West Wing Th...

By Diane Kristine The pilot sets up the premise that Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Danny Tripp (Bradley Whitford) are brought in to save a Saturday Night Live-like show after its producer has an on-air meltdown, railing against the state of television because a sketch called "Crazy Christians" has been...