Watching Studio60

As a follow-up to the recap, here are some memorable lines from the Sports Night episode “The Hungry and the Hunted.” Did I miss your favorites? Share them in the comments.

Casey: He’s going to kick the field goal.
Isaac: No, he’s gonna go for the first down.
Casey: Well, they’ve got to score twice to win, why not just get the three right now? He’s got the wind at his back.
Isaac: He doesn’t have the leg.
Casey: He’s got the wind at his back.
Isaac: I don’t care if he’s got the wind at his back and a song in his heart, he doesn’t have the leg.
Casey: You’re a crazy man from St. Louis, you have no business being in sports.
Isaac: Jeremy?
Jeremy: Yes sir?
Isaac: Florida State, fourth and 2 on the Purdue 39 and down by 9. What’s Bowden gonna do, kick or play?
Jeremy: I really don’t know.
Isaac: I’m asking what you think.
Jeremy: It’d just be a guess.
Isaac: I want you to guess.
Jeremy: I don’t like to guess.
Isaac: Guess anyway.
Casey: C’mon, c’mon.
Jeremy: Why?
Isaac: Because this is fun. The job should be fun.
Jeremy: I’m having fun.
Isaac: You should have more.
Jeremy: I’m having a lot of fun.
Isaac: Jeremy!
Jeremy: I’m having tons of fun!
Isaac: Guess!
Jeremy: Alright, fine. He’s going to split three wide receivers and put a tight end in the backfield with the tailback in motion. A play-action fake will freeze the strong safety, and Kittis will find his primary receiver over the middle. It’s a play called Red Rocket right, slant 42, “Z” out. He’ll get the first down, probably a lot more.
Isaac: What are you, insane?
Casey: Hey, wait, wait, wait, they’re not kicking.
TV announcer: Kittis lines up under center with three wide receivers split and the tight end in the backfield. Tailback in motion, the play-action fake, and Kittis has Renfro over the middle for the first down and more! First and 10, Florida State on the 16! Incredible! That’s a play Coach Bowden’s got called Red Rocket right, slant 42, “Z” out.
Isaac: You take a lot of fun out of this, Jeremy.

Casey: Dan’s talking about the rough-and-tumble, livin’-the-razor’s-edge, run-till-you-drop, never-say-die world of offshore yacht racing.
Kim: Time for the America’s Cup?
Dan: We’re only a year-and-a-half away.
Dana: I don’t wanna get scooped, but we can probably postpone our coverage for I guess, like, a year-and-a-half, can’t we?
Dan: Greatest sport in the world, Dana, greatest sport, great for kids.
Natalie: All you need is $40 million and a dream.

Casey: “October the 8th, 1998, A.D.” A.D. They’re worried I might accidentally show up 2,000 years before the birth of Christ.

Jeremy: I don’t know anything about hunting. I’ve never hunted. I’ve got a deli on the corner and they deliver 24 hours, so …

Natalie: I want Casey to ride with Dana.
Dan: I get it.
Natalie: Do you?
Dan: I ride with Isaac, and Casey and Dana fall in love.
Natalie: Right!
Dan: Wow, is that a stupid plan.

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It’s a birthday bonanza this week for Studio 60 cast members. Tuesday was Steven Weber’s special day, and now we wish a happy 45th to D.L. Hughley, who was born on this day in 1963 in Los Angeles. So I’m putting off that promised “4 A.M. Miracle” recap to browse through the memorable lines roundups for the first fifteen episodes and find some good Simon quotes. Since Simon’s not so much about the big speeches as the snarky comebacks, enjoy these exchanges:

From The Cold Open

Simon: Look, can he sit in a chair? ‘Cause eight days after I had the surgery, I still couldn’t make it from the bedroom to the kitchen without a damn epidural, and I’m an athlete.

Tom: You are?

Simon: I played football in college, I play golf every Sunday.

Tom: The Yale School of Drama had a tough team to beat?

Simon: Intramural flag football. Anyway, he’s telling people that he can do forty leg lifts with thirty-pound weights. I say he’s a liar, and I challenge him to a contest of physical supremacy.

Jane: I’m just coming to see you. I’m on hold with Clay Aiken’s manager.

Simon: Then hang up the damn phone.

From The Focus Group

Simon: Where did we get these candles from?

Harriet: The PAs ran out to the store.

Simon: Did they go to the Phantom of the Opera House of Crap?

From The West Coast Delay

Harriet: You know where I grew up, if this had happened? There’d be a town meeting, and everybody would be there. And the guy would have to sit and listen while Reverend Tillinghouse gave a sermon on honesty and character.

Simon: That’s exactly what would have happened where I grew up, except we’d have driven by the guy’s house and shot him.

From The Long Lead Story

Martha: Simon, you got a minute?

Simon: For a rectal probe?

Simon: Harry, listen, something’s happened.

Harriet: What?

Simon: You know your … I guess, what do you call it, your personal life
Harriet: Yeah?

Simon: Well …

Harriet: What did you idiots tell Martha O’Dell?

Simon: For what it’s worth, it started out as a gentlemanly act.

From Nevada Day Part I

Simon: The joint is mine. The joint in his jacket pocket was mine. It was my jacket. He’s not nearly cool enough to have a jacket like that. It’s obviously my jacket.

From The Option Period

Harriet: People knock on closed doors in America. Were the two of you raised on a farm?

Tom: I was.

Simon: I was raised over a heroin dealership.

Tom: Hey, I’ve been under arrest most of the day because of you.

Simon: And my joint’s still in Nevada … I’m just saying.

Harriet: Debra got the movie. There was some feedback that it’s not that she was sexier, but that she’s thought of as sexier. It’s hard to follow that logic, but it all seems to be synonymous with “We wanted someone sexier than you.”

Simon: You know how many movies Tom hasn’t gotten because they didn’t think he was manly enough?

Tom: It’s really gotta be like this?

Simon: You don’t see him on the cover of Field and Stream.

Harriet: They don’t think I’m sexy, Simon.

Simon: They will if you show them you’re sexy. They won’t if you show them your ass.

From B12

Simon: Listen, it’s on the news. The guy killed his family and then himself.

Harriet: No!

Simon: Yeah, he did it in the wrong order.

From The Christmas Show

Tom: Simon, tell Lucy about the time you were arrested on about forty-three larceny counts in high school.

Simon: Hey, cool, why don’t you tell her about the time everybody thought you were gay in high school.

From The Harriet Dinner Part I

Simon: Give me your manhood right now, give it to me, because you’re not gonna be needing it. Let’s let somebody else use it.

Tom: Oh, my God.

Simon: What?

Tom: That can’t possibly be Kim.

Simon: Where?

Tom: There.

Simon: That’s Kim?

Tom: Oh, my God.

Simon: Alright, you’re gonna need your manhood.


From The Friday Night Slaughter

Simon: I’ve got the most important audition of my life in … six hours ago.

Simon: Are you in love with her or just stupid?

Matt: What do you mean?

Simon: If you’re writing for a new cast member, there’s not much chance it’s going to get aired. I’ve never heard of you, so you need to get on the air. So which one is it?

Matt: I’m stupid.

Simon: You write like you’re on a first date. “Look at all the words I know.”

Studio 60, NBC, D.L. Hughley, Simon Stiles, quotes

Tomorrow, we’ll get back to talking about “4 A.M. Miracle.” Today’s the day to wish a happy 47th birthday to Steven Weber, who was born on this day in 1961 in Queens, New York. In honor of the actor’s special day, enjoy these quotes from his Studio 60 alter ego, Jack Rudolph, pulled from the memorable lines roundups for the first sixteen episodes.

From Pilot:

I’m not like every other heterosexual male in show business, Jordan, I don’t find you charming. And you’ve earned the loyalty of absolutely no one. So you go ahead, take your first steps, Jordan, make us look all classy again. We’ve been waitin’ for ya.

From The Cold Open:

If anybody can think of ways to screw up that we haven’t tried already, I’ll be in my office.

J-Mac, if the ratings start to dip next week, or if America doesn’t find “Crazy Christians” as funny as you do, frogs falling from the sky’s going to seem like Club Med compared to what’ll happen next.

From The Wrap Party:

(To Danny) But before I reach down your throat and squeeze your kidneys with my hand, I wanna thank you for helping Jordan acquire for NBS a television series about the United Nations. ‘Cause that’s got smash hit written all over it. I’m thinking of premiering it against the Super Bowl. America’s been waiting for a show about negotiating a lasting peace in Sudan. I hope we’ll hold off on the debate over humanitarian aide to Darfur until sweeps. Aw, it doesn’t matter, an episode will be a winner as long as it’s about the U.N. Because Americans are just crazy about the U.N. We just can’t get enough of their freewheeling, sexy, bucaneer style. I foresee a couple of problems, like nobody at the U.N. speaks the same language. But that’s okay, because if there’s one thing every teenager loves, it’s subtitles. You see it as part of your job to screw with my company, don’t you?

From Nevada Day, Part I and Part II:

I’ve always felt the People’s Republic of China was just one good string section away from being able to feed itself.

Hollywood isn’t run by liberals, it’s run by companies. You could look for a pretty long time before finding a liberal on the board of directors of any of those companies.

(To Danny) If you had my job for a day, you’d lose a couple hundred million of other people’s dollars and not care. Though I’m sure NBS would be the number one rated network within a mile radius of Zabar’s and the Chateau Marmont.

(To Zhang) My company doesn’t have honor? One of my guys spent the day in two different police stations because he came to the defense of a woman who was being verbally and physically abused. He could have been out of it easy if he’d played the support-our-troops card, but he wasn’t about to minimize the sacrifice of his brother and his brother’s buddies. Simon Stiles has prior convictions, but with the Budweiser Clydesdales, you could not stop him from making clear to a judge that this much marijuana was his. This guy (pointing to Danny) … I don’t know what the hell he was doing … except trying to convince me that Jordan McDeere has been all over the gossip pages because when she was 25, she married a fraction of a man. And this man has been telling tales, both true and false, in the hope of selling a book and working the talk shows. Sir, of all Jordan McDeere’s faults, and there are many, lack of honor is not among them. She’s killing me with her honor. So I’m sorry, Mr. Zhang. You have insulted me, and you’ve insulted my company, and I think you should take your business to Time Warner.

From The Christmas Show:

You have to understand that pro-family groups support our troops in this time of war, just as long as we don’t have to see or hear what our troops fighting a war looks and sounds like.

From Monday:

I’m not a Bedouin. I like making money, and I’ve made a lot of it for you. You can’t, you simply can’t, in this country, mess around with news coverage of a war. Ted, believe me, I wish this was a fight for ethics. I wish this was a conversation about the integrity of the news, but it’s not. It’s about preventing ourselves from being a laughingstock.

From The Harriet Dinner, Part I and Part II:

(To Tom) There comes a time in every great man’s life when he needs a favor from … someone like you.

Your best isn’t going to do it, Tom. You need to do somebody else’s best.

(To Zhang) Your daughter’s not going to quit the viola. You didn’t raise an idiot. But you might consider getting up off her ass for a short time, you commie prick. Did you understand all those words?

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You know, for a show that was only on one season, and whose two main couples spent much of that time apart and bantering, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has inspired an awful lot of romantic YouTube music montages. The Marriet shippers seem to be outdoing the Jordanny crew by a bit, but both pairings have worked up quite a bit of creative enthusiasm.

Below, for your Valentine’s Day enjoyment, is a list of tunes to which devotional YouTube videos to one of our S60 couples have been set. There’s Sting’s “Fields of Gold,” of course, a tune by Studio 60 musical guest Corinne Bailey Rae, the obligatory Snow Patrol tracks, and a surprising number of teen-idol tunes. Pick a song you like and revel in the complicated affection and romantic longing, set to pop music. It’s Valentine’s Day, Studio 60 style.

Harriet and Matt

• Corinne Bailey Rae, “Just Like a Star”
• Dave Matthews Band, “The Space Between”
• Disney’s Hercules, “I Won’t Say I’m in Love”
• Hepburn, “I Quit”
• James Blunt, “Goodbye My Lover”
• Jesse McCartney, “Just So You Know”
• Jesse McCartney, “Why Don’t You Kiss Her”
• Jet, “Look What You’ve Done”
• John Hiatt, “Have a Little Faith in Me”
• Jonas Brothers, “Please Be Mine”
• Lifehouse, “Everything”
• Michael Buble, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
• Natalie Cole, “Miss You Like Crazy”
• Nick Lachey, “What’s Left of Me”
• Regina Spektor, “Samson”
• REM, “At My Most Beautiful”
• Rihanna, “Unfaithful”
• Ryan Cabrera, “On the Way Down”
• Sammy Davis Jr., “We Could Have Been the Closest of Friends”
• Snow Patrol, “Chasing Cars”
• Snow Patrol, “You Could Be Happy”
• Sting, “Fields of Gold”
• Tiziano Ferro, “E Fuori e Buio”
• XTC, “I’m the Man Who Murdered Love”

Jordan and Danny

• Amos Lee, “Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight”
• Blue October, “You Make Me Smile”
• Ella Fitzgerald, “You Do Something to Me”
• Disney’s Hercules, “I Won’t Say I’m In Love”
• Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, “Elephant Love Medley” from Moulin Rouge
• Laura Pausini, “Surrender”
• Nick Lachey, “What’s Left of Me”
• Skye, “Love Show”
• Something Corporate, “Down”
• Stars, “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
• The Fray, “Look After You”
• The Wish, “Faith Alive”

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Today continues a recurring feature for this blog: brief profiles of Studio 60 cast members. I’m gathering these on a page for easy reference, but introducing them one at a time here.

Name: Sarah Paulson
S60 Role: Cast member Harriet Hayes
Birthdate: Born December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Florida
Stats: 5 feet 6 inches tall; partner of actress Cherry Jones
Best Known As: Harriet Hayes, since this was probably her highest-profile role to date
Other Notable Roles: Laura in the 2005 Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie, with Jessica Lange; Vikki in the 2003 movie Down With Love, with Renee Zellweger; Elisa in the 1999-2001 TV series Jack and Jill, with Studio 60 costar Amanda Peet; and parts in other TV series including Leap of Faith, American Gothic, and Deadwood.
Memorable Moment on YouTube: Harriet Can’t Tell a Joke
Sites to See: + IMDb listing + Wikipedia + AfterEllen

What would you add to this list? Share your favorite Sarah Paulson roles and info in the comments.

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Studio 60, NBC, Sarah Paulson, Harriet Hayes

My Studio 60 DVD set has finally arrived, oh joy! And as I did with my Brothers & Sisters set on that blog, I’m going to put up a bunch of photos here for those who have not yet had the pleasure of unboxing the thing. Apologies in advance for the fact that both my camera and my photography skills are sub-par.

The photo above shows the back of the box and the three cases it contains. The packaging is pretty simple: The box is thin cardboard, open on one side and tucked in as a flap on the other. Each thin plastic case holds two discs. The contents of odd-numbered discs are outlined on the front of each case, even-numbered on the back. Information includes title of episode, writer, director, original airdate, and a brief description. Discs One-Five have four episodes each. The sixth disc has two episodes plus a special feature, “In Depth: The Evolution of Studio 60.” The only other extra is a commentary on the pilot episode, on Disc One.

Below are the fronts and the backs of the cases:

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According to the More4 site, “The Harriet Dinner, Part 1″ was the episode broadcast last night in the U.K.; it originally aired in January in the U.S. For those who want to read what was written about this episode when it was first broadcast, here are links to reviews, recaps and forum discussions on:

• Entertainment Weekly
• TV Squad
• Television Without Pity (recap)
• Television Without Pity (forum - R/O)
• Studio 60 Guide

For those of us who saw “The Harriet Dinner, Part 1″ nine months ago, here’s a refresher.

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Aaron Sorkin’s not the only one doing the New York theater thing this season. According to an item on Playbill’s site, Sarah Paulson, Studio 60’s Harriet, will be appearing off-Broadway in Crimes of the Heart, a revival of the play by Beth Henley to be directed this time around by Kathleen Turner. Paulson earlier appeared in the play under Turner’s direction at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

The play centers on the Magrath sisters — never-married Lenny, much-married Meg, and Babe, who just shot her husband. Paulson will play Meg, following in the footsteps of Mary Beth Hurt, who played the character in the play’s original Broadway run in the early ’80s, and Jessica Lange, who played her in the 1986 movie.

In a bit of trivia, Paulson starred opposite Lange a few years ago in a Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie, with Lange as the mother, Amanda, and Paulson as her daughter, Laura.

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The DVDs are coming! The DVDs are coming!

Tomorrow, October 16, is the day the Studio 60 DVD set is finally released. I’ve got mine on order, and hope it will come on time or soon thereafter. I’m very interested in watching these episodes again absent the atmosphere of critical loathing that surrounded them during their broadcast debuts. It’s hard to shut that buzz out when you’re watching a show, hard not to think “Boy, they’re really going to pick on that” when a particular plot turn comes along.

According to the description of the set on the Warner Home Video site, the only extra we can expect is a commentary on the pilot episode by Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme. Amazon’s page doesn’t even list that, so I’m holding out a shred of hope that there may be other goodies that aren’t being promoted because the folks in charge thinks nobody much cares.

Once I get my set, I’m going to start doing recaps, memorable lines, and five questions about each episode, as I do on my Brothers & Sisters blog. They’ll be indexed on a separate page to make them a good resource for anybody discovering the show or wanting to remember particular episodes. I hope readers here will make their comments on those episode recaps as well, to share their own impressions.

Speaking of which: Share your thoughts on the DVD set here. Have you ordered it? Will you be running out to the store first thing tomorrow, or are you just planning to pick it up somewhere down the line? Or, maybe, not at all? Tell your plans in the comments, and what you hope to find when you open the box.

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According to the More4 site, “Monday” was the episode broadcast last night in the U.K.; it originally aired in January in the U.S. For those who want to read what was written about this episode when it was first broadcast, here are links to reviews, recaps and forum discussions on:

• Entertainment Weekly
• TV Squad
• Television Without Pity (recap)
• Television Without Pity (forum - R/O)
• Studio 60 Guide

For those of us who saw “Monday” many months ago, here’s a refresher: It’s the one where Danny calls Jordan, continues to call her even after she blocks his number, has his friends fax her with recommendations, and when she asks him to please back off, replies “No.” It’s the one where Matt bids on Harriet, Tom asks out Lucy, Simon and Darius disagree about a Fruit of the Loom sketch, and Jordan wrangles with a new head of Illiterate Alternative Programming who’s read a stupid book about power. And it’s the one where Jack and Wilson wage war over the FCC ruling and make a deal with the father of viola-playing Kim that involves her going out with Tom on the very night of his just-made date.

Whew! Remember all of that? If not, there are some good clips on YouTube to help you out. You can enjoy:

• A promo for the episode
• Danny pursues Jordan
• Tom and Lucy being adorable
• Jack learning Chinese
• Jack saying, “You’re a moron”
• A Danny-Jordan music video
• and another Danny-Jordan music video.

Tom and Lucy make a cute couple, don’t they? And with all the silliness this episode with Matt bidding on Harriet and Danny stalking Jordan, it’s kind of refreshing to just see a guy walk up to a girl and say, “Hey! Want to go on a date with me?” Ah, the simple life of the hired help.

Studio 60, NBC, Monday

Can we start talking about a “Studio 60 curse”?

Not a curse on the cast. It’s too early to tell if all these jobs they’re getting post S60 will be successful or not, but since the show had a short run and none of them are as identified with it as, say, the Seinfeld cast was with that show, there shouldn’t be any lingering doom. Besides, no one is trying to headline a show of his or her own, and that’s where the problems usually come in.

No, what I’m talking about here is a curse on the timeslot.

Studio 60’s ratings drop got it booted midseason last year for a round of The Black Donnellys, which flopped. Studio 60 came back but didn’t get the ratings NBC wanted either, so it was cancelled. And how is NBC’s new hope for that 10 p.m. Monday timeslot doing? Why, not so very well either. Ratings for Journeyman weren’t great starting off, and have gotten less great from there.

Now, I have nothing personally against Journeyman, although it sure sounds a whole lot like a Quantum Leap rip-off. My husband has been watching it and enjoying it, and I’m sorry to have to tell him that he shouldn’t get too attached. I’m sure the show’s cast and crew are working hard and getting hopes up and trusting NBC to keep the faith.

Nonetheless, I wish the show a swift and painful death.

Ditto the show that follows it in the timeslot. And the show that follows that. I’m hoping nothing does well for NBC at 10 p.m. Mondays for a long, long time. The “Studio 60 curse” has a nice ring to it.

Maybe NBC can have Journeyman go back in time and reverse that ill-fated cancellation decision.

Studio 60, NBC, Journeyman

There used to be a forum on the Television Without Pity site titled something like “You know you’re watching too much The West Wing when …” I had one of those moments yesterday when I saw this headline go by on my blog reader: “Naming trends: out of 20 boys, there are five Joshes and four Sams.”

And I immediately thought, “Of course! People were naming their children after Josh Lyman and Sam Seaborn!”

It turned out the story in question was about a school class in New Zealand with a preponderance of Joshuas and Samuels. I don’t know if The West Wing was big in New Zealand, and it doesn’t specify the age of the boys, although they look about right to have been conceived during the show’s run. But it seems like such a sweet coincidence, doesn’t it?

Out of curiosity, I checked the Social Security Administration’s listing of popular U.S. baby names, and while “Joshua” has been in the top 5 for the past 15 years, “Samuel” has been in the 20s, and “Josh” and “Sam” as names all by themselves were well down into the multiple hundreds.

Interestingly, “Matthew” and “Daniel” are both top-ten names, although we probably can’t claim those for Studio 60 at least until the 2007 tallies are out. “Danny” is back down in the over-100s, though, and “Matt” as a freestanding name has apparently not been in the top 1,000 for the past 15 years.

Giving it something in common with “Harriet.” Are those two meant to be, or what?

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Studio 60, The West Wing, NBC

According to the More4 site, “The Christmas Show” was the episode broadcast last night in the U.K.; it originally aired last December in the U.S. For those who want to read what was written about this episode when it was first broadcast, here are links to reviews, recaps and forum discussions on:

• Entertainment Weekly
• TV Squad
• Television Without Pity (recap)
• Television Without Pity (forum - R/O)
• Studio 60 Guide

To refresh your memory, “The Christmas Show” is the one where Matt wanted a Christmas show but the writing staff took delight in shooting down every holiday tradition; Cal tried to make snow out of coconuts; Harriet got a role in Luke’s Rolling Stones movie; Jack decided to take on the FCC over a soldier’s battlefield expletive; New Orleans musicians played; and Danny told Jordan he’s coming for her.

Danny’s declaration, and the phone calls and faxes that followed, struck some critics as stalker-ish behavior. I don’t know; I thought it was kind of cute. But I do think that the pregnancy storyline, brought on by necessity due to Peet’s pregnancy, changed the course of Jordan’s character from not entirely trustworthy corporate shark to sympathetic and embattled romantic heroine.

And me? I’m okay with that. I thought Jordan and Danny made a cute couple, and for all their bantering and stalking and fake-baby breaking, a more mature counterpart to Matt and Harriet’s endless on-and-off dance. I wonder, though, what the show would have looked like if Jordan had stayed childless and focused on network politics. What do you think — better? worse? Definitely different. Jordan and Danny’s romance feels to me like maybe a Season 2 plotline that got moved up, fast.

Studio 60, NBC, The Christmas Show

Unless there’s a great sweep of cult interest in Studio 60 sometime in the near future (and I’m up for that, how ’bout you?), it’s probably just a pipe dream to think about a movie version of the show. It would be a pretty neat fit, though, wouldn’t it? Great cast and writing, beautiful production values, two romantic-comedy-ready couples. I’d line up at the multiplex for that, and I’d bring a friend.

We’re lucky that, despite the fact that we got just one season, there was some resolution at the end. But that doesn’t mean there’s not some fuel for a feature-length plot. Which would you choose: Danny and Jordan juggling parenting and network domination? Matt and Harriet finally finding a way to stay together for more than five minutes? Jack jousting against censors on the one hand and the creative types who keep stirring the censors up on the other? Everyone rallying to keep the show-within-the-show from imminent cancellation?

The creator of the YouTube video below picked a Danny-Jordan angle with a trailer for “Coming for You,” which conveniently accommodates snippets of movie-announcer-voice from other sources. Make your own pitch in the comments.

Studio 60, NBC

Today continues a recurring feature for this blog: brief profiles of Studio 60 cast members. I’m gathering these on a page for easy reference, but introducing them one at a time here.

Name: Amanda Peet
S60 Role: NBS president Jordan McDeere
Birthdate: Born January 11, 1972, in New York City
Stats: 5 feet 8 inches tall; married to David Benioff since 2006; one child
Best Known As: The dental assistant turned aspiring hitwoman opposite Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis in The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards
Other Notable Roles: Diane Keaton’s daughter and Jack Nicholson’s initial love interest in Something’s Gotta Give; one of various identities in Identity; Jack in the TV series Jack and Jill, which also featured S60 co-star Sarah Paulson
Memorable Moment on YouTube: Emergency room proposal
Sites to See: + IMDb listing + Wikipedia + Amanda Essence

What would you add to this list? Share your favorite Amanda Peet roles and info in the comments.

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Studio 60, NBC, Amanda Peet, Jordan McDeere