SNL To Get The Sorkin Treatment
Two years after leaving his creation, The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin is back with a show that sounds extremely exciting. His new show will deal with the behind-the-scenes action of a Saturday Night Live-like televion show called Studio 7 On The Sunset Strip. Curiously enough, the show will be on NBC:
The West Wing ticket of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme is in the running again at NBC, which outbid CBS late last week for their very expensive new drama pilot. But instead of probing the corridors of the White House, the hourlong series will be set in what seems a lot like the peacock’s own house.
A draft of Sorkin’s spec script making the rounds in Hollywood last week depicts the behind-the-scenes tumult of a fictional sketch-comedy show in the mold of Saturday Night Live, as well as the corporate culture of a TV network not unlike NBC.
Sounds very interesting. More info at TV.com.
Also of interest: SNL is DOA which offers a little bit of info about the Sorkin project:
like “Larry Sanders,” only if it was about “SNL.” In a viciously clever way, Sorkin’s pilot script pretty much obliterates SNL and everything that happened to the show over the past few years, as well as TV networks and the post-Janet Jackson/FCC Era in general.
Yes, interesting, indeed.
Who wants to bet that Joshus Malina ends up as a cast member at some point?