The Sun is Setting on 'Strip'

For those of you hoping for an 11th hour reprieve for NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip… forget about it. It’s over. Yes, I know that no official announcement has been made by NBC, but believe me – it’s true. How do I know? Well, the Studio 60 sets, which reside on a Warner Bros. soundstage, have this week started being dismantled and torn down. And where I come from, you don’t tear-down something that you’re planning to use again.

Rest in peace, UBS.

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Brotherhood Update

Fans of the late, lamented The West Wing will appreciate this one: Janel Moloney, better known to West Wing fans as Donna, is joining the cast of the Rhode Island-centric Brotherhood as a woman with whom supposed-good-guy Tommy Caffee has an affair.

And just to bring this full-circle with the item above: Moloney's West Wing character Donna interacted prominently with the Wing character Josh, played by Bradley Whitford... who (say it with me now) co-starred on Studio 60. Gotta love the full circle!