Syracuse University graduate Aaron Sorkin's recent endeavor, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, has been canned. Sorkin had recent success with the West Wing, but our favorite work of his, is of course Sports Night with an ensemble that included Deseparate Housewife-Felicity Huffman, Benson-Robert Guillaume, that guy in Six Feet Under and Josh Charles. Now Sorkin is known for injecting fast paced and witty dialogue into his programs. Now Studio 60 had that, but a lot of the characters and plots were too weak to carry an hour show. Sorkin also switched the focus of the show midstream, and made it into a romance driven crapfest. But this will not hold down the great and powerful Aaron Sorkin. No, no, no. So SCS thought he'd take a look at some possible ideas for Sorkin's next television endeavor. So we thought, where we would, as the American public, really want to get a better look:
THE BOOTH: A behind the scenes look at a sports announcing team. Possibly for something like Sunday or Monday night football. I'm seeing maybe David Hasselhoff and Tim Meadows, with say, Mario Lopez. Tough to say if this could keep a captive audience. What am I saying?! With Sorkin's behind the wheel it's sure
to be money in the bank! I mean of course the actual announcing would be crap, but the week long meetings with the teams coaches, watching video and practices, would be great television. Just off the top of our heads, some guys that could be cast as coaches, umm, how about Brian Dennehy? Stacy Keach? Carl Weathers? or the White Shadow's Ken Howard? All great thespians in their own rights.THE BAND: Nothing better than a look behind the scenes of an up and coming adult
contemporary band. The name of the band could become the name of the show. Perhaps something like Flutterbug, or Circus Peanuts. The name is still up for grabs. I'm seeing maybe Bruce Campbell as the band manager, with Jared Leto, Matt Long, and perhaps AJ Langer (My So Called Life) or Jenna Van Oy (Six from Blossom) as the band. This might be too young, hip and edgy for Mr. Sorkin, but who knows. I mean life on the road, in the recording studio, public appearance gone awry, it's got People's Choice Award written all over it.TRUE TO LIFE: A real inside look at some reality show. Hit on what's hot. This would be a look at the people who run the and produce the reality show. This could be a Real Wo
rld or a compettion one like American Idol. This might be hard to keep interesting. But we'd watch for a couple of episodes. Inside the constant turmoil of the contestants driving them crazy combined with the inside intertwining relationships amongst the staff, etc. You'd need someone British of course, like maybe a Ricky Gervais type. We're also seeing Tim Daly for this, even though he's due to be in the Grey's Anatomy spin-off. Or maybe Paul Rudd? Or the one and only Michael Ian Black? And they have to get Doug E. Doug. His talent is just out there, untapped. Sounds great, right?Or maybe a show about doctors? Or lawyers? Or maybe investigators, cause we never seen any of those on the ol' boob tube. Just remember Aaron if any of these hit it big, you owe Saul some royalties my friend! I have witnesses, and it's documented right here for all seven of my readers to see. So trust me Sorkin, if you screw me over you'll need more than just a few good men to keep me away!
