May I recommend the upcoming Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
Mondays starting Sept. 18 on NBC; if you have Netflix, you can get the pilot now on DVD, as we did.
The show is from the original West Wing team of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme. Here’s the setup: A writing/directing team (Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry) are brought back to save a Saturday-Night-Live-like show – four years after they were fired from that same show. The chairman of the network, who fired them before, still hates them, but he’s setting up the new head of programming to fail. It’s much better than I describe it here, including Judd Hirsch in a meltdown right out of Network, and a nice cameo by Ed Asner.
One minor difficulty with the DVD: Chris and I are both somewhat dependent on closed-captioning, and this preview DVD isn’t captioned.