# Soooo...  What's with NBC pulling 'West Wing' tonight?

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**Created:** [October 16, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-whats-with-nbc-pulling-west-wing-tonight/207703 "2003-10-16T02:00:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oy\_Vey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dbc845/32.png) [@Oy\_Vey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy_Vey)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-whats-with-nbc-pulling-west-wing-tonight/207703/1 "2003-10-16T02:00:01Z")

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> **[The West Wing - NBC.com](https://www.nbc.com/the-west-wing)**
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> A popular political drama that ran for seven seasons, The West Wing follows President Jed Bartlet and his administration.

Looks like tonight’s North Korean defector episode was pulled with no explanation… in the meantime our local affiliate’s tv listings page was borked with ‘server too busy’ messages for a bit.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-whats-with-nbc-pulling-west-wing-tonight/207703/2 "2003-10-16T03:14:24Z")

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I didn’t do it!

- NCB -

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**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-whats-with-nbc-pulling-west-wing-tonight/207703/3 "2003-10-16T07:19:01Z")

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Well, that makes me feel better, since I missed it working late.

Stinking Boss’s Day…y’all take the boss out to eat. DO NOT call the flower shop and take 30 minutes to decide that a goodie basket will be needed because the boss doesn’t like flowers. Flowers we got, goodies we gotta go get.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soooo-whats-with-nbc-pulling-west-wing-tonight/207703/4 "2003-10-18T03:06:44Z")

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NBC pulled new episodes of its Wed. and Thur. shows so they wouldn’t be “wasted” against Fox’s baseball games. The games are drawing big ratings, and thanks to this “brilliant strategy”, they are drawing even bigger ratings.

Logic is not a strong suit of TV execs.

(If it was sweeps month, then deliberately scheduling strong against strong is a plus.)