West Wing season 7 is confirmed

solice

The fantastic news

Just ye know. Martin Sheen is gone so i guess it will either be a republican president. or maybe sam will come back from orange county or maybe cj might be the first female president!

tvnutz

as long as 3rd watch gets nenewed,ill be happy!

banquo

woohoo!!

now riddle me this: what's the season finale going to be called? they seem to be keepnig it a bit of a secret.

Doctor Benway

solice wrote:

Just ye know. Martin Sheen is gone so i guess it will either be a republican president. or maybe sam will come back from orange county or maybe cj might be the first female president!

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Isn't Jimmy Smits going to be the Democratic nominee in this series, running against the Republican Alan Alda?

Telefís

What! Martin Sheen has left???!!

Since when??!

Telefís

By the way, if he dies or something at the end of the current 6th - I don't want to know...!

solice

well sheen has to leave anyway irrespective of any possible pending death. This is his second term, you are only allowed serve two.

Telefís

I thought they'd drag it out a bit

sleepwalker

surely its gonna be sam as president next ?

solice

I dont know, I heard a rumour that the next pres was going to be a republican......I cant imagine it happening as it would require a complete change of cast!

What about the VP? I know he is in the campaign but he doesnt have a major role so i would imagine that he will get shafted

banquo

looks like the title of the last ep is going to be "2162 votes" [hardly worth a spoiler].

hmmm...

aodh_rua

That's great news! I was afraid I'd have to book into somewhere to deal with cold turkey.

It'd be strange if Alan Alda were to win - apparently he was one of the actors originally considered to play Bartlet.

banquo

the 6th season has been pretty ok so far. Third Day Story was pretty good, but there haven't been any really sh**ty episodes like last season. And the word from the states is that, despites a few hiccups, it generally gets better.

I think they've only got two episodes of this series left in the states. There was talk of everyone pitching in and sending one of the new scriptwriters, Ms Deborah Cahn, a 2000-strong bunch of roses

Any word on when Sorkin's new play is premiering here? I know that they've begun work on The Farnsworth Inverntion...

ElNino

banquo wrote:

looks like the title of the last ep is going to be "2162 votes" [hardly worth a spoiler].

hmmm...

That's the number of votes required to get the democratic nomination to run for president. Presidential elections are held in November so the first few episodes of Series 7 will be about the election race.

mycroft

sleepwalker wrote:

surely its gonna be sam as president next ?

No it looks like Alda v that bloke from LA law, v, the VP, verses the ex VP.

A republican president would not just require a complete change of cast, but a complete change of ethos, the writers are moderate democrats, liberals, and it would require complete brain transplants in them to do the switch. Seeing as the show has persistently struck tiny lil digs at every aspect of republican policy for the entire busy administration.

So they're be some new cast, and the new liberal president, I suspect the LA law guy, cause Josh wants to set it up, and the series has gotten much more Josh centric.

solice

mycroft wrote:

A republican president would not just require a complete change of cast, but a complete change of ethos, the writers are moderate democrats, liberals, and it would require complete brain transplants in them to do the switch. Seeing as the show has persistently struck tiny lil digs at every aspect of republican policy for the entire busy administration.

What better way to take something down than to take it down from the inside

mycroft

solice wrote:

What better way to take something down than to take it down from the inside

So it stops taking dramatic licence and becomes satire.

That'd take balls, and it'd just be inconcievable. Consider the office US version, the had to change the Gareth Character from being in the terra's to being a part time deputy sheriff.

You can't make public officials in the US look bad.

The West Wing is actually very patriotic, and twisting it into some perverted satire would have it taken off the air in a heartbeat.

Seriously, when in the West wing has a soldier or a general being protrayed as anything other than noble and righteous.

It will never happen.

iguana

mycroft wrote:

A republican president would not just require a complete change of cast, but a complete change of ethos, the writers are moderate democrats, liberals, and it would require complete brain transplants in them to do the switch. Seeing as the show has persistently struck tiny lil digs at every aspect of republican policy for the entire busy administration.

So they're be some new cast, and the new liberal president, I suspect the LA law guy, cause Josh wants to set it up, and the series has gotten much more Josh centric.

While I'm sure you're right about the way they will go, a republican win wouldn't mean such a change of ethos for the show.

In 2000 when the republicans won in the real world, the West Wing writers considered moving the cast out of office. A sort of
THE DEMOCRATS:
The West Wing, the opposition years.

They decided against it then, they'll probably decide against it now. But maybe not.

solice

iguana wrote:

While I'm sure you're right about the way they will go, a republican win wouldn't mean such a change of ethos for the show.

In 2000 when the republicans won in the real world, the West Wing writers considered moving the cast out of office. A sort of
THE DEMOCRATS:
The West Wing, the opposition years.

They decided against it then, they'll probably decide against it now. But maybe not.

I like the idea, not sure if i would get bored of it though. Imagine 4 years of opposition?