The West Wing Spoiler Special, featuring Aaron Sorkin

Pilot TV

Empire Magazine

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

We've been threatening to do it for weeks and now we've finally delivered. Here, for your listening pleasure, is a Pilot TV spoiler special dedicated to the greatest TV show ever made: The West Wing. To celebrate the fact that Terri binged the entire show over the past month, and in recognition of the fact that James needs absolutely no excuse to bang on about it until people beg him to stop, we bring you a mammoth recording where the team thrash over the themes, the cast, the major plot points and much, much more. Plus, you can enjoy James' interview with the man who started the whole thing: West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	I'm James Dyer and welcome to the Pilot TV podcast and this a very special episode dedicated
0:14.6	to a single show and what better show to dedicate it to than the greatest show of them
0:19.8	all.
0:20.8	The West Wing.
0:21.8	So over the next God knows how long we're going to dive deep into the nuts and bolts of
0:25.8	the show which first aired back in 2000 but has since found new audiences both on Netflix
0:31.5	and now HBO Max in the US and over here in the UK on all four were all seven seasons
0:36.7	are currently available.
0:38.2	We will also be treated to a little background from the man himself Mr. Aaron Sorkin who
0:42.8	talked to me about the origins of the show and a lot more besides but get onto that in
0:47.0	just a little while because I am as ever joined by my two pilot TV co-hosts.
0:53.2	That's answer to Amy Gardner Terry White and our very own Toby Ziegler Mr. Boyd Hilton
0:57.5	how are you both?
0:58.5	Very well thank you although I'm not going to testify in any committee and I feel like
1:03.2	I'm really justified in all my actions.
1:07.2	And I would be there quite some time.
1:09.8	Chapter one.
1:10.8	Now anyone who listens to the regular show will know that Terry after resisting my entreaties
1:16.0	to watch this show for as many years as I've pretty much known her finally gave in and
1:20.4	binge watch the entire series very recently and not only enjoyed it but has been transformed
1:27.1	by the experience so rather than use up a whole episode of the regular podcast banging
1:31.2	on about this show and let's be honest spoiling it for everyone who hasn't seen it.
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