NBC executives announced today that this will be the final season of The West Wing. I'm saddened by that. Certainly the series could be ponderous and self-important at times, but I loved the writing, and I most especially loved the writing for the presidential speeches—if only the real life White House could get speech writers like that!
It seemed that they were setting the show up to continue in the future with either Jimmy Smits or Alan Alda in the White House after the term of Martin Sheen expired, and then the series could have a potentially perpetual existence, much the same as NBC has done with E.R. and the multitudinous Law and Order series. The untimely and unexpected death of series regular John Spencer last month, who was Jimmy Smits' vice presidential running mate, seems to have thrown NBC for a loop, and they were not able to resolve their creative and plot problems, which is a shame, given how much the writers and producers on that show are paid.
Oh, well. I guess the mantle of television presidential politics will be passed to ABC's excellent series, Commander in Chief.
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