For West Wing Fans....

[Catchawave]

I just learned, after the tearful goodbye episode tonight, that this series was based on my favorite movie...The American President w/Michael Douglas/Annette Benning.

Just thought I'd share. :hi:

[deadparrot]

1. Yep.

Aaron Sorkin was behind it all. :hi:

I'm all weepy; it was kind of a depressing Mother's Day, and the series finale of WW was just icing on the cake.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. I read that on Wikipedia.

[veganred]

2. Where did you find that out from?

I'd love to know.

[Catchawave]

5. Backstory from Entertainment Weekly....

..that I was flipping through the other day. Aaron Sorkin wrote the movie and developed the series, by popular request :)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. It was bittersweet ...

I was sitting there after the show went off expecting the previews for next week because that is what I naturally did after every episode.

[Catchawave]

6. Me too :(

:hug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. That was a damn good show .

This is the first drama show that has kept my attention.I always watched this show on the Bravo Monday marathon's when I was unemployed in the fall of 2004 because this show and the Kerry/Edwards campaign gave me hope.

[AmericanErrorist]

8. "Based on"...

Implies that there was a narrative connection. There was not. However, as EW reported, TWW had its genus in Thomas Schlamme's suggestion to Sorkin that "The American President" would make a great series

[Catchawave]

9. ...and it did :)

I cried tonight, what could have been, what could be. Sorkin started it, and seven years later, it could be.