Potus has driven into a tree, Sam has accidently slept with a prostitute and Josh is about to get fired! West Wing Series One rewatch starts here!!

[lilibet]

So, episodes one and two this weekend everyone and a chat next week?

meowmix, the box set is out in about 3 weeks! Fear not.

It now occurs to me to wonder why Donna is called Don[n]atella. She does not appear to have any Italian connection?

There really is no spark between Mandy and Josh, is there? Good job they dumped her I reckon.

Ah, big block of cheese day coming up. Not quite as amusing as the big block of cheese day in Series 2 where Leo is saying "I am sure Margaret has carefully assigned the appointments to the most appropriate person" whilst Margaret is standing behind him shaking her head and mouthing "NO"

My knowledge of S4/Anthony thing is due to having seen the episode quite recently, can't remember why! Did I mention I found out the Joey Lucas one-episode-pregnancy was in Series 5?

Donna(tella) was clearly named by the same kind of American parents who think that Madeleine is spelled Madeline and Zoe (imagine the diaresis on the 'e' - can't do that on MN!) is spelled Zoey. Anything is possible!

It also amuses me that Bruno Gianelli mispronounces his own surname so horribly, at least in the re-election campaign (series 4?). He always calls himself Jee-ann-ell-ee (with 4 syllables) when it should be Jan-ell-ee (3 syllables). Amusingly, he seemed to have learnt how to say it by this most recent series when he was working for Vinick. Maybe the Italian-American community got onto him!

Joey Lucas may have had her baby, though, as that appearance was a bit of a one-off (IIRC). She didn't appear in the next episode suddenly un-pregnant and baby-less.

Zoë - see, tis possible

I love all the financial disclosure stuff, so amusing. And Toby, asked how he feels about having to give his salary up for a year "like I've been screwed with my pants on". Ho ho!

Can I please just add before the discussion goes further that when someone utters the words, "I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States," the very thought of it makes me swoon?

Good. That said, my concentration will improve no end.
It would have been interesting to show Charlie's life outside of the Whitehouse a bit, especially when he starts dating Zoe. There is an episode where he's filling out a tax return or something, I bet you'd find out how much he's paid from that.

Sorry, haven't posted for a while but loving this thread!

I found a truly awful tv movie on BBC2 or similar about three months ago starring the heinous Mandy as an Olympic figure skater trying to get to the 88 winter olympics but going through her partners so fast that she ends up with an ex ice hockey skater. It was so bad but the thing that was really funny that she was playing Mandy in that. "The Cutting Edge"(!) More Mandy trivia did you know she's the voice of Nala in the Lion King?

What I want to know is will we be watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip with the very watchable Bradley Whitford playing stressed out executive and Matthew Perry playing slightly sarcastic guy who uses humour as a defence mechanism?

I've just read the below on IMDB. I am in SHOCK did we know this?!

NB contains vague Season 7 spoilers
"In a 2006 LA Times article, real-life former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers (a consultant on the show), revealed that the relationship between press secretary C.J. Cregg and reporter Danny Concannon was based upon her own relationship with and eventual marriage to former New York Times White House correspondent Todd Purdum, although unlike C.J. and Danny, Meyers and Purdum never dated until after Myers left the White House. The same article also revealed that Josh and Donna's relationship was also based upon real White House staffers, albeit ones who never dated. "

Ooh, I've seen that film, it is godawful, isn't it? And so obviously not her doing any of the whizzy skating bits. Why on earth they cast her in TWW is a mystery.

Studio 60 hasn't aired in the States yet, wonder when it will be making its way over here.

Didn't know about DeeDee - did she comment on the likelihood of a press secretary becoming Chief of Staff?!

Lionheart, please tell me that it doesn't make you swoon if they are talking about George W??

Lilibet. The very idea.

tribpot have you seen Commander in Chiefrunning on Abc1 during the weeksame sets and plots (what a shame 'cos a female president would be interesting).

I've never seen, I know I would just sit there and pick holes in it.

It's very disappointing.

Yup, have been watching Commander in Chief. It is very disappointing, isn't it? Not a spark of drama or wit, and I nearly gagged during the whole 'Pres insists on cooking thanksgiving dinner just like she's always done' - surely the whole point of being the leader of the free world is to get someone else to stuff the turkey?!

Takes itself far too seriously, and they have done something weird with the office where Charlie and Debbie/Mrs L sit - it's like some kind of lobby! Ludicrous. We all know the White House is exactly as shown in TWW.

One of the children is called Horace and one of them does not look at all like the off-spring of Mr and Mrs President.

Apart from his name, I think Horace is the least annoying of the First Brats!

Theolder daughter is definitely a teeny version of Jennifer Aniston.

The older*

Ellbell, Toby si playing golf on ITV at the moment, but he's playing under the name of Schiff

Found Commander in Chief very dull in comparison to WW.

Will definitely be watching Studio 60 - love Aaron Sorkins writing.

Loved the bit with the President on his painkillers for his back this week - aboslutely cracking

Hi all
So, can someone remind me what episode we're meant to be up to now? I've watched up to episode 7, and this first series is so good, isn't it? 'Mr Willis of Ohio' is one of my favourites; and I was thinking last night, while watching 'The State Dinner' that the amount of 'stuff' they get into one episode is just amazing... a truckers' strike, a FBI siege situation, a hurricane and a visit by the president of Indonesia! The first appearance of the First Lady in that episode is a bit Dynasty, I thought (in terms of her appearance, I mean).

Oh, and Tribpot, you old show-off... someone did show me how to get accents and things on here once, but I failed to memorise how it worked.

Missed Toby playing golf as I was in a tent in the Yorkshire Dales (shivering!). But he'd have had to have been particularly 'Toby-ish' to make it worth watching golf...

If you've wathced The State Dinner you are one ahead of us, that's five and we are doing five and six this weeknd.

In The State Dinner if you can picture Abbie's dress/jacket in a nice darkish red that's what I wore to my wewdding last year

Will be back to talk about 3 and 4 later!

Channel 4 have just responded to my Viewers Enquiry to confirm that they have secured the rights to Studio 60 but have no dates for airing yet.

Ooh, lilibet... very glam, and wonderfully décolletée . (NB accents... hold on... let's have a go at... Zoë!)

I suspected I was getting ahead of myself. Shall try to restrain myself for a while, and will refrain from further comment till you all catch up.

I have ample bosoms!!

Talking of bosums (and I am trying to rise to the challenge of contributing something of intellectual worth to this discussion, honestly), I was very struck when rewatching episode 4 by how naked the women looked in comparison to the men. When they are leaving the hall after the speech and all the men (including the agents) are dressed in identical penguin suits, poor CJ has a bare back and a dress that just makes her look exposed and vulnerable in comparison. It's a strange juxtaposition 'cos she is, as usual, holding her own with them, perfectly relaxed. It just looks wrong, unless of course my puritanical tendencies have clouded my vision ...

You're right lionheart. She probably has heels on too (not that she needs them!) which would seriously impede her ability to run in case of an emergency. But that's what women are meant to look like, isn't it? CJ looks stunning, whatever she wears (though it must help to be 7 foot 6 or whatever she is...!) - even with her dated hair-do. (The grey dress in 'The State Dinner' is lovely too, and then there's the 'Black Vera Wang' coming later...!)

Lilibet... I am also ample of bosom, but would need some serious scaffolding work to achieve Abbie's pneumatic look. (Dress is probably boned or something, isn't it?)