# The West Wing??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 13, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153 "2003-03-13T19:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![gvsantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@gvsantos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gvsantos)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153/1 "2003-03-13T19:11:18Z")

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Anyone know what happend to TWW last night? They were supposed to be showing a new episode but instead they ran a Law and Order rerun. I hope this doesn’t have anything to do with Martin Sheen and his speaking out against a war in Iraq. I heard that NBC was ticked at him.

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**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153/2 "2003-03-13T20:01:46Z")

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TWW was scheduled to be a rerun last night. No one knows why NBC decided to pull the West Wing rerun and replace it with a Law & Order rerun, although West Wing episodes are serialized and therefore traditionally do poorly in reruns, while Law & Order is apparently infinitely rewatchable.

There are four pages of discussion on this topic at [Television without Pity](http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ijsbb/forum.cgi?a=list&f=31&d=10&t=656917&n=50,1#n), including speculation about NBC’s possible political motivations, but no conclusion has been reached.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153/3 "2003-03-13T21:39:35Z")

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Hmm. I wondered about this myself.

I literally had to ask out loud “today’s Wednesday, isn’t it?” I thought maybe I was off a day, as has been known to happen with great frequency.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-west-wing/161153/4 "2003-03-13T22:49:10Z")

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What was really annoying was that it was the second half of a two part episode. For what it’s worth, CTV also pre-empted the episode.