#The West Wing (NBC)

[bookdork1]

#Youtube #okay this was really hard to narrow down to nine so I’m sorry if your beloved theme is missing 😭😭😭 #stranger things #the west wing #Doctor Who #the x files #x files #dw #the office #buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #BtVS #mash #game of thrones #ER #er nbc #er 1994 #theme song #polls #2000’s #90’s

[the-unsea]

I'm living for these shows I can describe as a if Scandal and insert show here had a baby.

NBC's Found- if Scandal and Random CBS procedural had a baby.

MAX's The Girls on the Bus- if Scandal and The West Wing ha a baby- complete with Scott Foley!

#Scandal #The West Wing #NBC Found #The Girls on the Bus

[tvthemesongs]

The West Wing intro

#the west wing #nbc #1990s #watched

[thebestestwinner]

See pinned post for the full bracket!

#emmys #the west wing #er #er nbc #west wing #emmy awards #best drama #bracket tournament #brackets #poll #polls

[beardedbarba]

the more time passes, the more i dislike bob russell

#The West Wing (NBC) #TWW (NBC) #The West Wing S6 #TWW S6 #TWW 6x09

[sarah-dessen-things]

How to Deal Turns 20

How to Deal was released on this day in 2003.

An adaptation of Sarah Dessen’s first two novels, That Summer and Someone Like You, the movie starred Mandy Moore and Trent Ford as the romantic leads.

Halley Martin (Moore) and Macon Forrester (Ford)

Allison Janney used her time off from filming NBC’s The West Wing (for which she won a few Emmys) to be Mandy/Halley’s mom in the movie.

How to Deal was released as a “book” with Sarah’s name. (Many readers might have been confused, and sometimes still are, thinking it’s an additional Dessen title entirely.) It was That Summer and Someone Like You in one binding with Mandy Moore on the cover.

At the time Moore had already released two albums, had been in The Princess Diaries, and was the lead in A Walk to Remember based on the Nicholas Sparks book. Putting her face on the cover of the tie-in gave Dessen a whole new audience of readers. 

An accompanying soundtrack was also released - with a tracklist that’s a real throwback to the early 2000s! 

How to Deal goes in and out of streaming on various platforms, but it can be purchased digitally from Apple to Prime to YouTube.

Physical copies in VHS and DVD formats can be found on eBay.

#how to deal #sarah dessen #that summer #someone like you #mandy moore #trent ford #allison janney #the west wing #nbc #a walk to remember #the princess diaries #nicholas sparks

[ginandweas]

Just when I think I’ve getting over my west wing obsession phase and I start watching ER (which, yes, i did start watching because of its tangential relation but we’re not talking about that) only to see janel maloney and bradley whitford show up within 2 episodes of each other in the first season and find myself aghast by the coincidence as if it means anything at all

#er #nbc er #tww #the west wing #please see my pinned post if you feel my obsessionshould have ceased by now #i agree

[daringdarlingdt]

tv show tag game

rules: list eight shows for your followers to get to know you better

thanks to @majorbaby for tagging!! I love doing these even if it takes me days and days to actually get around to them

1. Doctor who (2005- present)

2. M*A*S*H

3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4. Firefly

5. Good Omens

6. Fleabag

7. Derry Girls

8. DuckTales

as usual I’m not gonna tag anyone but consider this a free tag— if you wanna do it tag me cuz I’d love to see em :)

#I basically chose shows that I consider mostly my favourite or that I reliably rewatch and that bring me joy. #is David tennant in half of these? no. because I took out takin over the asylum but he is in 3/8. we are not surprised #I am actually currently watching a couple other shows that I didn’t add to the list but I’ll throw em in the tags as honourable mentions: #I’m behind on Barry season 4 but I love Barry sm and if you haven’t seen it definitely watch it. Bill Hader is the showrunner and lead actor #he’s fantastic in it he’s so wonderful and Henry Winkler is in it also #started watching The West Wing about a month(?) ago now although I’ve taken a two week break since I’ve been on vacation #I’m looking forward to continuing both those shows when I get home later today and tomorrow when I’ll just be sleeping #that’s why it took me so long to get around to this tag game btw— haven’t had enough time alone with my phone to come up with 8 tv shows 😫 #also! special shout out to Superstore and Parks and Rec my favourite nbc sitcoms :) I thoroughly enjoy that format in general #ok now I keep thinking of other shows that should be on this list so I’m gonna stop writing tags…

[alltrekvarnews]

Matthew Perry, Estrella de 'Friends', Muere a los 54 Años....

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#BEVERLY HILLS 90210 #Charles in Charge #FRIENDS #Matthew Perry #NBC #Obituario #Series Tv #Sydney #The West Wing

[addictedtostorytelling]

> in 2000, veteran tv actress jorja fox took what she believed would be a brief hiatus from her guest-starring role as secret service agent gina toscano on nbc's hit political drama the west wing to play criminalist sara sidle on the new cbs forensics procedural csi: crime scene investigation. at the time, fox did not anticipate csi would stay on the air for long, considering both its complex subject matter and the fact that it premiered in the infamous "friday night death slot." she believed csi would run for a few weeks before being cancelled, at which point she intended to return (with aaron sorkin's blessing) to the west wing. says fox, "i thought i'd be back on the west wing by the holidays. i really did. i didn't think anybody was going to be that interested in a show about science and death on a friday night. i just thought it would be really kind of cool for a couple of months. and i'd be back on west wing by the end of the year." despite her initial low expectations, csi soon developed into a mega-hit, spawning multiple spinoffs and becoming the "most-watched show in the world" in the early 2000s. fox would go on to appear as sara sidle in all fifteen seasons of csi and also the first season of its 2021 revival, csi: vegas.

#csiedit #csi cbs #csi #twwedit #tww #the west wing #jorja fox #sara sidle #gina toscano #** #my gifs #my graveyard gifs #csiverse #04x09 #mp #ww s01e22 #flashing gifs

[besttvshowbracket]

ROUND 1B BRACKETS

The Umbrella Academy vs The X Files

Spongebob vs House MD

The Librarians vs Yo Gabba Gabba

Lucifer vs The West Wing

Transformers vs Lockwood & Co.

Kingdom vs Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

BBC Merlin vs The Winchesters

Gravity Falls vs Murdoch Mysteries

Kath & Kim vs NBC Hannibal

Gotham Knights vs The Americans

Steven Universe vs Leverage

The Boys vs Scooby Doo

Agents of SHIELD vs Severence

Batman: The Animated Series vs Good Omens

Gotham vs Doctor Who

Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs Sucession

#the umbrella academy #the x files #spongebob #house md #the librarians #yo gabba gabba #lucifer #the west wing #transformers #lockwood and co #kingdom #star trek ds9 #star trek #deep space nine #star trek deep space nine #bbc merlin #the winchesters #supernatural #gravity falls #murdoch mysteries #kath and kim #hannibal #gotham knights #the americans #steven universe #leverage #the boys #scooby doo #agents of shield #severence

[justforbooks]

Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit TV sitcom Friends, has died at 54, according to reports.

Perry drowned at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, sources including a representative for the actor and law enforcement told NBC News. Other US outlets also reported Perry had died.

After small roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dream On, Perry scored a role in NBC sitcom Friends in 1994. The comedy, about six friends living in New York City, quickly became a phenomenon, winning multiple Emmys and scoring record ratings.

Perry went on to play the sarcastic and neurotic Chandler in 10 seasons with the 2004 finale reaching over 52 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.

“People come up to me every day and say, ‘Hey Chandler!’ I don’t respond to it,” he said in a 2014 interview. “If somebody says, ‘Hi Matthew, I love your work’, that’s one thing. But if somebody goes ‘Yo, Chandler’, I don’t like that. I’m tired of it. I’m not Chandler.”

Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1969 to an American father and a Canadian mother, who would later move her son to Ottawa to work as a press aide to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. In his bestselling 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recalled acting up after his father abandoned his family to chase his own dreams of becoming an actor – including bullying a young Justin Trudeau. “I decided to end my argument with him when he was put in charge of an entire army,” he wrote.

At 15 Perry moved to Hollywood, with the hope of reconnecting with his father. It was there he began to enjoy acting, and was eventually spotted at a diner, “charming a bunch of young women”, by director William Richert, who left a note asking him to be in his next movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, alongside River Phoenix.

Perry was 24 when he started playing Chandler and was relatively unknown, just like his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. In a 2019 interview, Friends creator David Crane said Chandler was the most difficult character to cast; actors Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer and Jon Favreau were also considered for the role.

“Marta [Kauffman, co-creator] and I were thinking Chandler is just poorly written,” added Crane. “Then Matthew came in and you went, ‘Oh, well, there you go. Done. Done. That’s the guy.’”

Perry was nominated for an Emmy award five times, including once for his Friends role and twice for his role as lawyer Joe Quincy on The West Wing.

During his tenure on Friends, Perry starred in films including Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek, Three to Tango with Neve Campbell and The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis. He also played small roles in Ally McBeal and Scrubs.

In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he confessed: “I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.”

Perry’s personal life was afflicted by addiction, starting in 1997 when he became addicted to pain medication after a jetski accident. He later claimed to not remember three years of his time on Friends and to spending over $9m on his fight to stay sober.

“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people – and that’s why I can’t watch the show, because I was brutally thin,” he said. Perry later admitted he had suffered severe anxiety “every night” while filming the show and felt nothing when the show ended.

Once Friends ended in 2004, Perry’s next small-screen lead was in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was cancelled after one season. In 2009 he starred in hit comedy 17 Again alongside Zac Efron, and later guest-starred on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Perry also led one season sitcom Go On and a remake of The Odd Couple which lasted for three seasons. In 2016 he wrote and starred in play The End of Longing which opened in the West End and later transferred to Broadway.

In 2019, he was put in a two-week coma when his colon exploded due to opiate abuse; he had 14 surgeries due to his opiate abuse. “At this point in my life, the words of gratitude pour out of me because I should be dead, and yet somehow I am not,” he wrote in last year’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was a hit with readers and critics. The Guardian’s Barbara Ellen called the memoir “harrowing and revealing about the juncture where extreme compound addiction collides with mega-celebrity”.

“You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that,” Perry wrote.

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#just for books #matthew perry #chandler bing #Friends

[heynebulas]

if i ask, "have you seen the polls lately?" you might think i am a recurring character on NBC's The West Wing (1999-2006) but no, i am only a user on this website reacting to the times.

#my txt #the west wing #idk i saw someone say that and i was like. hmm

[beardedmrbean]

A top employee at an NBC-affiliated television station in Michigan was fired last week for expecting it to be a news outlet instead of an LGBT propaganda channel.

News director Stanton Tang of WOOD-TV had assistant news director Amy Fox write a memo to employees about the need to limit and adjust coverage of Pride Month, specifically Pride events. Staff swore not to obey it, pressured Tang to resign, and complained that Nexstar Media Group, the station’s parent company, hadn’t immediately suspended Tang and Fox while investigating. One employee called it “absolute malpractice” to wait while “the emotions are still raw.”

The emotionally scarring document asked reporters not to “cover every Pride event we learn about” at the expense of limited time and resources. “We need to do some work to discern the newsworthy-ness of the event. If we are covering Pride events, we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue,” Tang said.

“We know that West Michigan is a Conservative area in many ways,” he added. “We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community. While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions, and they are our viewers.”

Every Pride Month, many LGBT stories from mainstream outlets follow the same obnoxious formula. Journalists cover events with little to no importance beyond obsessing over the sex lives and gender identities of random people and editorializing about the right-wing “hate” they are faced with. On the other hand, objections to nudity and sexual activity in front of children or the promotion of sex change procedures rarely receive air time.

Tang made the horrible career mistake of trying to burst the liberal bubble at his network in pursuit of something resembling balance. He even spoke positively of the “number of valuable stories about Pride-related events” it had already covered. But his suggestions were enough to get him barred from editorial meetings on the topic.

An outlet called the Desk released a hit piece describing Tang’s memo as “anti-gay” without evidence and describing a history of complaints about him. Among them was the fact that he “consumed a significant amount of political news and conspiracy theories” and followed “controversial, right-of-center personalities” such as Daily Wire hosts Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro.

Tang “occasionally emailed and texted reporters with links to conservative-oriented news articles, urging them to find similar local angles on those topics,” the Desk reported. Oh, the horror!

It’s hard to find a more transparent example of how uninterested many journalists and media organizations are in fairness and accuracy. The contempt they have for those wanting to hear alternative information makes them unapologetic about their behavior. It is becoming increasingly popular in the media to believe that many issues only have one perspective worth addressing: the "indisputably correct" stance of liberals. People in charge of protecting these fragile narratives act like the world is ending if their opponents have a voice.

#nunyas news

[beardedbarba]

ya know, i don’t really like amy gardiner

#The West Wing (NBC) #TWW (NBC) #The West Wing S3 #TWW S3 #TWW 3x22

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eric Hananoki at MMFA:

While serving as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, Pete Hoekstra has also been working for the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute, which has posted commentaries suggesting that Muslims are incompatible with the West, declaring “Islam is a Problem,” and claiming Europe may be facing “Great White Death” because of Muslim immigrants. Hoekstra himself has used his Gatestone Institute position to praise Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician and leading anti-Muslim figure. The Michigan GOP chair also wrote that he has “often met” with Wilders, who he claimed is devoted to “religious tolerance.” (Wilders has claimed, among other things, that “Islam is not a religion”). 

Hoekstra is a former member of Congress and Trump administration ambassador who was elected the Michigan GOP chair earlier this year after a bizarre power struggle ousted far-right commentator Kristina Karamo. (Karamo has her own history of anti-Muslim remarks.) He has been a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute since at least 2022. He has written dozens of pieces for the organization since 2021 and has continued to write for Gatestone since he assumed the Michigan GOP chair.  Observers have documented the Gatestone Institute’s anti-Muslim rhetoric. Reporter Heidi Przybyla wrote an April 2018 piece for NBC News that noted the institute “has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news.” The piece quoted then-Brookings Institution fellow Alina Polyakova, who “said Gatestone is ‘putting out content that was clearly anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and was echoing some of the Russian disinformation propaganda’ being spread by internet trolls and on social media.” Przybyla added that “Gatestone has been a significant promoter of the disputed notion that ‘no-go zones’ exist in the heart of major cities where Muslims rule by Shariah law.” 

Newly-appointed Michigan GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra continues to work for the Islamophobic Gatestone Institute in which he praised right-wing anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

#Pete Hoekstra #Islamophobia #Michigan #Michigan GOP #Gatestone Institute #Geert Wilders #Kristina Karamo