Aaron Sorkin Says ‘The West Wing’ with Donald Trump as President Wouldn’t be Believable
Aaron Sorkin says The West Wing with Donald Trump as president wouldn’t be believable
“Awful!” The West Wing creator says with a laugh. “Well, no, here’s what would happen – I would create that Donald Trump-esque character, but I would have to make some adjustments to the character to make it believable. If I just did Trump as Trump, no-one would buy that as a believable character.” Sorkin adds: “I think that if the characters on The West Wing were watching a TV show about the characters who are running for President right now, they’d say, ‘This is insane! You can’t believe this, this is a silly television show, they should get it closer to real life.'”
Grease: Live gets Ana Gasteyer to play the principal
Gasteyer is joining the Fox live musical as Principal McGee, the role played by Eve Arden in the 1978 film.
Why Scandal’s Olivia Pope is TV’s best anti-hero since Walter White
The Shonda Rhimes drama is more than a guilty pleasure, and should be compared to the best modern cable dramas, says Alan Sepinwall. “Scandal has some soap DNA, but it has plenty of cable anti-hero DNA as well, and always has,” he says.
FX sets winter premiere dates — The Americans returns in March
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Man Seeking Woman return Jan. 6, Zach Galifianakis’ Baskets debuts Jan. 21. American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson bows Feb. 2. And The Americans, which usually premieres in January, will kick off its fourth season in March.
How to Get Away with Murder writers are murdering an entertaining TV show
“As long as ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder has the always riveting Viola Davis as its star, it’s likely to have a pulse,” says Robert Bianco. “But with just two weeks to go before the show’s winter break, that heartbeat is growing increasingly faint, as a once enjoyable if nonsensical pulp mystery has turned into a slow, somber chore. The main cause of this sophomore slump has been the writers’ decision to let the melodrama around Bonnie’s murder of Rebecca carry on throughout the fall.” PLUS: Here are the odds on who shot Annalise.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show releases a 2-1/2 minute director’s cut of the opening credits
This video shows why Colbert needed all those people with balloons in Union Square. PLUS: Colbert’s green room is full of sugary sweets.
Bryan Cranston will appear on Inside the Actor’s Studio
The former Breaking Bad star will look back at his career in an episode airing Nov. 25.
Are the male stars of Gossip Girl cursed?
No one watched Penn Badgley in The Slap, and no one is watching Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick on their respective new series, Blood & Oil and Wicked City.
9.3 million saw Donald Trump’s SNL episode, final numbers show
It was SNL’s biggest episode since a December 21, 2013, when Jimmy Fallon hosted with a special appearance by Justin Timberlake.
Why TV ratings matter more than ever, even in this streaming age
DVR numbers and streaming numbers have made TV metrics more complicated, as Willa Paskin points out: “As ratings have gone down, they have gotten increasingly esoteric, using such complicated measurements that they may as well be spells cast to conjure missing eyeballs.”
Kiernan Shipka can remember all 8 of Mad Men’s Bobby Drapers
Shipka reveals that there was a “Pillow Face Bobby” whose face was never shown on screen, as was the case with “Bucket Head Bobby.”
Penny Dreadful unveils its first look at Season 3
Why is Eva Green’s head on Patti LuPone’s lap?
A Tribe Called Quest is reuniting on Jimmy Fallon
The hip-hop group will perform on The Tonight Show this Friday to mark the 25th anniversary release of their debut album, Peoples’ Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm.
Life Goes On dad is headed to Grey’s Anatomy
Bill Smitrovich will play an “easy, funny, kind, fatherly” therapist.
Jon Snow, the esteemed British anchorman, sits on Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne.
“Winter really MUST be coming!” tweeted Channel 4’s Jon Snow, who once had a stare down with the other Jon Snow.
