The West Wing (tv program)

Phew. It's finally here - the best new show of the season. After weeks of lackluster shows and retreads of things we've already seen before comes a show with a fresh new spin on storytelling, an innovative premise, stellar performances and lots of...

The usual suspects ruled the night, but new blood drew the top Emmy honors in the end. "24," Fox's popular action series that stars Kiefer Sutherland as a terrorist-fighting antihero, and "The Office," NBC's mockumentary remake of the acclaimed British...

Network TV hasn't been especially kind to Rob Lowe since leaving "The West Wing" toward the end of that show's fourth season. But he's giving it another go, this time on a show that's already up and running. Lowe has taken a recurring part on ABC's...

You may have already thought that shows like "24," "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Office" are among the best productions in TV. The people who actually do the producing agree with you. The Producers Guild of America has tapped those three series, along with...

Fast National ratings for Sunday, May 7, 2006 The combination of "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" carried ABC to the ratings title Sunday, with "Grey's" retaking the most-watched crown from its lead-in. ABC earned a 9.6 rating/16 share for...

Josh Malina's long run on NBC's "The West Wing" ended in May and so far the actor is enjoying life away from Will Bailey. "As much as I would be delighted to get my next series regular role, I'm enjoying the pursuit thereof," Malina laughs. "In the...

The Emmy Awards are not the Oscars, but it was hard to tell on last night's red carpet as stars from prime time's most celebrated shows posed for cameras in elegant, sober, sophisticated, reined-in fashions. That's not to say the fashions were boring. On...

Raindrops on "Lost" and whiskers on kittens Television characters in whom I am smitten Brand new episodes tied up in string These are a few of my favorite things When the TiVo breaks, when a plot development stings, when I'm feeling sad I simply remember...

Janeane Garofalo, last seen helping get Jimmy Smits elected president on "The West Wing," is headed to CBS for her next TV gig. Garofalo has signed to star in a pilot about a team of public defenders, which is one of several projects moving forward at...

It was in the sixth season that I made peace with the fact that post-Aaron Sorkin, "The West Wing" was never going to be sparkling, witty or hilarious ever again. Instead, in the second season of the John Wells administration, "The West Wing" settled into...

During the inauguration scene in Sunday's series finale of "The West Wing," the camera panned to several people watching new President Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) being sworn into office. There was outgoing President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), his wife,...

After a broadcast hiatus to make room for some midseason comedies, CBS' freshman sitcom "Out of Practice" returns on a new night on Wednesday, March 22. While it performed well enough on Mondays to get a full-season pickup, its performance on Wednesday...