Post by spike on Sept 25, 2003 12:38:28 GMT
From www.aintitcool.com
“West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin is all over the news, what with the show’s fourth best-drama Emmy in a row, and the show’s first Sorkin-free season set to launch Wednesday.
It’s been almost five months since Sorkin announced he’d be resigning his roles as writer and showrunner, and fans, to judge by our new deluge of emails, are becoming increasingly keen to learn what he’s doing next.
Well, not TV, at least not right away. He revealed at the Museum of Television & Radio about two weeks ago that he was planning a return to series TV, but did not discuss timing or premise.
The New York Daily News reported on Aug. 18, however, that Sorkin’s next TV project would be something similar to Sorkin's old ABC series “Sports Night”: a backstage comedy-drama for Warner Bros. revolving around a fictional “Saturday Night Live”-like show.
Before his return to series TV, Sorkin says, he’ll be writing a play for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and finishing a feature screenplay about Philo Farnsworth, who invented the TV picture tube, and Farnsworth’s lengthy legal battles with RCA’s David Sarnoff.
The first season of “The West Wing” hits DVD Nov. 18.
“West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin is all over the news, what with the show’s fourth best-drama Emmy in a row, and the show’s first Sorkin-free season set to launch Wednesday.
It’s been almost five months since Sorkin announced he’d be resigning his roles as writer and showrunner, and fans, to judge by our new deluge of emails, are becoming increasingly keen to learn what he’s doing next.
Well, not TV, at least not right away. He revealed at the Museum of Television & Radio about two weeks ago that he was planning a return to series TV, but did not discuss timing or premise.
The New York Daily News reported on Aug. 18, however, that Sorkin’s next TV project would be something similar to Sorkin's old ABC series “Sports Night”: a backstage comedy-drama for Warner Bros. revolving around a fictional “Saturday Night Live”-like show.
Before his return to series TV, Sorkin says, he’ll be writing a play for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and finishing a feature screenplay about Philo Farnsworth, who invented the TV picture tube, and Farnsworth’s lengthy legal battles with RCA’s David Sarnoff.
The first season of “The West Wing” hits DVD Nov. 18.