"Studio 60"

Netflix has this new deal where you can rent pilot episodes for TV shows that havent aired yet. There all episodes that will air the upcoming season. Last night I rented "Studio 60", a show created by Aaron Sorkin who is best known for creating "The West Wing" . The show mixes elements from 'The West Wing" mixes it with 'Network" and has a touch of "As Good As It Gets" humor.

Studio 60 is is about what it's like to run an SNL like TV show. It's starts off with the head writer walking on stage during a live taping and he starts ranting about how the sketch he wanted to air is being censored and instead their going to do another Bush/Cheney sketch which if anyone who watches SNL would know, those sketches are run into the ground. He also goes on about how television is a sellout and the only things network television wants to air is stuff that is safe and stuff that is pure shit. So needless to say he get's fired by the president of the network. That's when they call in Mathew Perry and Bradley Whitford, whose characters are are writers that were fired from the show by the netoworks president years before but are now well known award winning writers in Hollywood, to come and save the show.

I'm just giving you a rundown on what it's about. There's a lot more too it but saying more could give away too much. If you have netflix rent Studio 60, otherwise when it airs on NBC this fall, 10 pm Monday nights, give it a shot.