Guest starring the lovely Allison Janney.
Get 'em while you can…NBC didn’t renew the series. 
10p Eastern on NBC.
I liked this show better than most, but gone are the days where I’m willing to stay up to 11:00pm to watch it. When the show comes out on DVD, I’ll Netflix those episodes I haven’t seen.
I’ll tape it to watch it later.
Knowing it’s a dead fish kills any interest I may have had to see it. NBC has lost my trust by killing off so many of the shows I had begun to like: Raines, Kidnapped, Studio 60 to name three. I still watch and enjoy Medium but I doubt I’ll get sucked into any new shows this fall. CBS and ABC are close to that same thing, and Fox had better not fuck with House and Bones or I may just quit watching network series unless I DVR them first to get past the 20+ minutes of commercials each hour.
I’m watching it for the closure. I’m hoping these shows were written after Sorkin knew the show was going away, so maybe there’s a zinger, a la *Sports Night * on ABC.
I didn’t get to see that zinger (I think I was in Japan at the time.) Please spoil it for me.
The network that aired Sports Night was up for sale. Dana kept running into this guy in the bar and he kept giving her inside tips on why this company or that wouldn’t buy the network. They all turned out to be true. Then she put two and two together, and figured out Bar Guy is a multi-zillionaire who was buying the company. She asked about her show, and he said, “Anyone who can’t make money off Sports Night needs to get out of the money-making business.”
So, take that, ABC!
Of course, in that case it was seriously true. God, I loved that show.
“You’re wearing my shirt, Gordon.”
I watched it all on DVD last summer. I got the DVDs from zip (which is like Netflix), and every time one would arrive, I’d sit down and watch all 8 episodes start to finish and then send it back the same day. I really did love Sports Night.
Hey, thanks for the Studio 60 alert. I probably would have missed it otherwise.
Yeah, that was pretty brutal.
I also loved Jeremy’s job interview rant…vintage Sorkin.
Uh, no, his statement was more general:"Anyone who can’t make money off sports should get out of the money-making business."Emphasis mine. He wasn’t just talking about Dana’s show (Or Sorkin’s).
No, ivylass got the quote right.
It was about the show(s) specifically.
Was that episode supposed to be a zany, madcap, comic relief-type show?
If it was, it didn’t work. If it wasn’t, then what was it supposed to be?
Just out of curiosity, did anyone miss Matt and/or Danny?
It was odd that they weren’t there.
The Simon Styles trip to Hawaii plot was out of a 50s sitcom. Really awful. And the romance between Matt and Harriet is no longer particularly interesting.
The show could have been better. Allison Janney especially was made to be an idiot. When the wallet had no money, all she has to do is pretend to put the bills into the other guys hands. That sort of ad libbing should be natural.
It was working too hard to be wacky, and didn’t come off.
That said, some of the individual lines were quite funny and I wasn’t quite tempted to shut it off. It’s just trying way too hard.
Hell NO!
Decent show, except for the Harry and Simon sub-plots which were tiresome. And I agree, Allison freakin’ Janney should have had more improv chops at this point in her career.
The squibs going off in the wrong sketch after we had seen Janney changing costumes is typical of the kind of stuff they would do wrong for a laugh or to make a point and didn’t think non-Hollywood types would notice.
I hate being wrong enough to dig out my DVD and double-check. I see now I was wrong.
But I wish I was right. As “sports” it’s a possibly true point one could legitimately argue. As “Sports Night” it’s just Sorkin being self-important.
Also, I’d always thought it was a vodka that Dana mistook for water. Now on re-viewing I see it’s a gin and tonic.
What, I’m Leonard Shelby now?
I had the exact same thought. That kind of shit drives me up the wall.
Especially since it’s well-known (at least to West Wings fans) that Allison Janney has near-perfect recall of scripts. She would generally read them once on that show and know all of her lines.
I liked this episode a lot. I thought that if this one showed up earlier in the season, more people would have kept watching. I thought that the “madcap, zany” style worked. And I loved how Janney kept putting people on her list.