Oct 19 2005
Lost Remote Agonizes Over West Wing
The insufferable Cory Bergman over at Lost Remote whines:
NBC’s The West Wing has dropped 30 percent in the ratings after the network moved it to Sunday night. I love the show — TiVo it religiously — but it’s a bad fit for Sunday night, especially when you consider ABC’s juggernaut (although you could argue Wednesday night against Lost was worse). Bottom line, the ratings drop may get the show canceled.
Hmmm… A supposedly brilliant show that everyone supposedly loves that can’t compete against another show. Guess people don’t love it enough to watch it instead of Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, eh?
If The West Wing was such a great show that everyone loved, it would slaughter a simplistic touchy feely feel good reality show. It’s not; the ratings bear it out. Guess its ratings are only good when nothing else is on.
October 20th, 2005 at 12:42 am
The thing with The West Wing has a lot to do with Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme, who both left the show after the 4th season. Rob Lowe also left but it wasn’t near as important.
Sorkin wrote all the episodes through most of those seasons but had drug issues. The shows dynamic has never been the same. Therefore most fans of the West Wing have left it alone as it sputters in the post sorkin years.