Five Possible Settings For Aaron Sorkin's Secret New TV Show About a TV Show
5. Behind The Scenes Of A Show About The Bossest, Cake-Making Ace On Basic Cable
Aaron Sorkin Repertory Players Involved: Gary Cole, Peter Krause, Kristen Chenowith
Two men rush through the hallway between the kitchen and the banquet hall.
"It's angel-food."
"What's angel-food?"
"The cake is angel-food."
"I know that. I made the cake. I brought the cake. Angel-food is delicious."
"Angel-food is incredibly delicious. I won't argue that."
"So delicious."
"But they didn't want angel-food delicious."
"Why don't they want delicious? Everyone loves delicious."
"They wanted German chocolate delicious."
"They don't know what they want."
"They want German chocolate, they were pretty clear about what they want."
"German chocolate is the cake of the defeated. It's a Panzer rolling over your taste buds."
"So you just unilaterally went angel-food?"
"I unilaterally went delicious."
"The bride is freaking about the angel-food."
"Let the bride freak. She's getting angel-food. Angel-food is already on the table."
"They're getting ready to cut the cake. And she's freaking."
"She'll cut the cake and her husband will feed her a little bit of the cake and she'll say to herself, my God, angel-food is goddamn delicious."
"She's already said she's not cutting anything but German chocolate."
"There's no German chocolate. I didn't bring German chocolate. She'll cut what's on the table. Which is angel-food."
"She's not going to cut it, that's what she said."
"She'll cut it."
They arrive in the banquet hall. The bride is cutting the cake.
"Delicious."
Off-camera, the director yells, "Cut!" then enters the frame.
"You're hitting 'delicious' a little too hard."
"Gotcha."
"Angel-food's good, though."
"Great."
"Let's go again, people!"
"Hey, one thing"
"Hold everything, people! OK, hit me."
"You think maybe this is a little overscripted? I mean, I make cakes for a living. I'm good at that. Great at that. The boss of that. Can't I just say what comes to me in the moment? It's supposed to be reality, you know?"
"I don't tell you how to put plastic cats in tuxedos on the top of your garish sugar-mountains, you don't tell me how to make great TV. Got it?"
"Got it."
"Let's go again, people!"
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I don't think he's actually worked with Smits before. Sorkin was long gone by the time that character appeared on West Wing.
I would bet a jillion dollars that it will star Peter Krause and be the behind the scenes of news show. The fox idea is great but Sorkin has never and will never write conservatives as the main characters. It will either be like a network evening news, Meet the Press, or Olbermann/Maddow. I would bet on it being the network evening news. The pitch is: Broadcast News meets Sports Night!
no on all of them. it will be a behind the scenes about the making of a reality show about a couple with 10 kids. with a shrew of a wife and a playboy wanna be husband that, even though he's 30, is still living in his good old college frat house days.
I agree with Charli...personally, I think Sorkin's missing a bet by not doing a show about a Salon-style web-based news magazine...the possibilities are endless. Josh Malina as the insecure but brilliant tech guy, Richard Schiff as the harried executive editor, Allison Janney as the ball-bashing feminist who runs the women's section with an iron fist, Sarah Paulson as the flaky movie critic, etc. Make your own list...
The advantage is that you could set up a tight core of regulars, but bring in guest stars to write story lines around everything from politics to food trends and everything in between. One advantage is that the 24-hour constant deadlines would make for an incredibly fast-paced and frenzied show.
Now THAT I'd like to see.
I too say none of the above. He's gonna expose a "Hills" type show as the scripted, multiple take directed sham inhabited by dead eyed zombies that it is.
First off I don't think Mr. Sorkin is really doing a tv show so soon. He has quite a few movies lined up (ie..Moneyball, The Challenge). Also, he has said he would want to do a behind the scenes of an Olberman countdown type show. Thirdly, many of the actors mentioned wouldn't be available if it were done now.
No matter what he makes, I'm sure it will be overhyped as "brilliant" and canceled before it's time.
I would actually pay money to see John Laroquette as a Keith Olbermann type with Bradley Whitford as his hapless producer with Allison Janney and Kristin Chenoweth as a regular panelist. Please, oh, please, let this please happen.
Actually since AS has said "M*A*S*H" was a major influence on his writing when he was growing up, I think a medical show would be interesting. I would be interested in seeing a show about medics, Doctors and Nurses, etc..in the military. Hell, anything AS writes will be gold.
Thanks for the good read. Where would we be without TV...
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