This article is about the American television series. For the BBC TV program of a similar name, see Sportsnight.

Sports Night is an American television series about a fictional sports news show and the people who worked there. It focused on the friendships, pitfalls, and ethical issues they face while trying to produce a good show under constant network pressure. Created by Aaron Sorkin, the half-hour prime time comedy-drama^[1] aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. ... Robert Guillaume in 1980. ... Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. ... Peter Krause as Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under Peter Krause (born 12 August 1965) is an American film and television actor. ... Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor. ... Sabrina Lloyd as Natalie Hurley in Sports Night Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. ... Joshua Charles Malina (born 17 January 1966) is an American film and stage actor. ... 2002 identity of the ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the BBC television programme. ... Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. ... Prime time is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... The year 1998 in television involved some significant events. ... The year 2000 in television involved some significant events. ...

The show starred Robert Guillaume as managing editor and executive producer Isaac Jaffe, Felicity Huffman as producer Dana Whitaker, Peter Krause as anchor Casey McCall, Josh Charles as anchor Dan Rydell, Sabrina Lloyd as senior associate producer Natalie Hurley, and Joshua Malina as associate producer Jeremy Goodwin. Regular guest stars included William H. Macy as ratings expert Sam Donovan and Brenda Strong as Sally Sasser, the producer of West Coast Update (another show on the same network as Sports Night) and rival of Dana. Robert Guillaume in 1980. ... Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. ... Peter Krause as Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under Peter Krause (born 12 August 1965) is an American film and television actor. ... Casey McCall (born 1965) is one of the lead characters of the ABC dramedy Sports Night which lasted from 1998 until 2000. ... Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor. ... Daniel Dan Rydell (born 1969) is one of the lead characters of the ABC dramedy Sports Night which lasted from 1998 until 2000. ... Sabrina Lloyd as Natalie Hurley in Sports Night Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. ... Joshua Charles Malina (born 17 January 1966) is an American film and stage actor. ... William Hall Macy Jr. ... Brenda Strong (born March 25, 1960 in Brightwood, Oregon, USA) is an American actress. ...

Overview

The fictional Sports Night is a sports news program in the style of ESPN's SportsCenter.^[2] It broadcasts from the fictional Continental Sports Channel (CSC), a subsidiary of Continental Corp, owned and run by Luther Sachs. (Some believe Continental Corp is loosely based on Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns Fox Sports Net.) ESPN/ESPN-DT, formerly an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an [[United States|Amer<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here--68. ... This article is about the American ESPN show. ... Continental Sports Channel is a fictional all sports station used in the comedy-drama series Sports Night. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest Media conglomerates. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ...

Sports Night struggled to find an audience and ABC cancelled it after two seasons. Although it had the opportunity to move to several different networks, including HBO, Showtime and USA, Sorkin decided to let the show pass so that he could focus on his popular drama The West Wing. For other uses, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Showtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States. ... “The West Wing” redirects here. ...

Although the first season of Sports Night is a sitcom, it often is portrayed as more of a comedy-drama representative of some of Sorkin's later work on The West Wing. Sorkin intended for the series' humor to be drier and more realistic than typical sitcoms. He initially wanted the show to be recorded without a laugh track, but ABC network executives insisted on including one.^{[3] [4]} The volume of the laugh track faded as Season One continued^[5] and was abandoned at the beginning of Season Two.^[6] Even where the laugh track was used, it was typically in scenes where more than one character was off-camera, to minimize the "canned laughter" effect. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The dialogue is often delivered at a rapid-fire pace and uses a technique of exposing many aspects of communication that go beyond the words that are chosen. For example:

Dan: I need a favor.
Jeremy: Is this about Rebecca?
Dan: Rebecca?
Jeremy: Yes.
Dan: No.
Jeremy: I'm rooting for you, Dan, but I really can't get involved in things like this.
Dan: It's not about Rebecca.
Jeremy: Bad things happen to people when they get involved in other people's business, a lesson I'm trying to teach Natalie. I'd like to set a good example.
Dan: It's not about Rebecca.
Jeremy: What's the favor?
Dan: It's about Rebecca.

The show also frequently employed a technique known as "Walk and Talk," where the characters are walking from one location to the next while in conversation. This is another characteristic of Aaron Sorkin shows as "walk and talks" are used quite frequently in The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... “The West Wing” redirects here. ... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is an Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award nominated American television Comedy-drama series created and written by Aaron Sorkin. ...

The show's main focus is the relationships between the characters. These include an off-again on-again flirtation and romance between Dana and Casey, the oil-and-water passion between neurotic Natalie and nerdy Jeremy, and Dan's ongoing problems with relationships in general. The character of Isaac Jaffee hovers over his staff as a benevolent but uncompromising father figure. Father Figure was a song written and performed by George Michael and releaed on Epic records in 1988. ...

The show is mostly set in the studio and station offices. However, in the second season Anthony's, a local sports bar and restaurant, was introduced as another location for scenes in order to get the characters out of the work environment a little bit.

Guillaume suffered a stroke midway through the first season, and this event was worked into his character and the season's story arc.^[1][5] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Cast

• Josh Charles — Dan Rydell
• Peter Krause — Casey McCall
• Felicity Huffman — Dana Whitaker
• Joshua Malina — Jeremy Goodwin
• Sabrina Lloyd — Natalie Hurley
• Robert Guillaume — Isaac Jaffee

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Recurring guest cast

• Kayla Blake — Kim
• Greg Baker — Elliot
• Jeff Mooring — Dave
• Ron Ostrow — Will
• Timothy Davis-Reed — Chris
• William H. Macy — Sam Donovan (season 2)
• Teri Polo — Rebecca Wells
• Brenda Strong — Sally Sasser
• Robert Mailhouse — J.J.
• Ted McGinley — Gordon Gage (season 1)
• Jayne Brook — Abby Jacobs (season 2)
• Paula Marshall — Jenny (season 2)
• Megan Ward - Pixley (season 2)

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Awards

Sports Night poster (1998) with a reference to Charlie's Angels

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• Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series - "Cut Man" (2000), Janet Ashikaga
• Outstanding Director for a Comedy Series - "Pilot" (1999), Thomas Schlamme
• Outstanding Multi-Camera Editing for a Series - "Small Town", Janet Ashikaga

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Additional airings

• After its cancellation, the rerun rights to the show were briefly picked up by Comedy Central.
• In 2004, ABC1, a British offshoot of ABC, began broadcasting Season 1 of Sports Night in the United Kingdom for the first time, although the second season did not air until January 2006.
• It was also aired briefly in Latin America on Sony Entertainment Television. The Spanish version of this channel currently runs the show in Spain.
• Australia's Foxtel cable network aired Sports Night on The Comedy Channel in 2005.
• The show was aired in Turkey on DiziMax in 2006.

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Similarities to The West Wing

The West Wing emulated Sports Night in many ways, including many of the same cast and crew members. The shows even share many similar storylines in the years when Aaron Sorkin acted as head writer. ^{[7] [8] [9]} “The West Wing” redirects here. ...

• Both the dialogue style and the steadicam tracking shots used in Sports Night are also used in The West Wing.
• Joshua Malina starred on The West Wing as White House staffer Will Bailey.
• Clark Gregg, Teri Polo, Timothy Davis-Reed, Ted McGinley, Nina Siemaszko, Felicity Huffman, Ron Ostrow and actor/director Timothy Busfield have all appeared on The West Wing.
• Janel Moloney guest starred as Monica Brazelton, a wardrobe assistant, in Season 1's "The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee". Sorkin was so impressed with her performance^[10] that he brought her in to audition for The West Wing, where she became a series regular playing Donna Moss.
• Lisa Edelstein guest starred in two episodes of Sports Night as fill-in anchor Bobbi Bernstein. In the first episode, she was depicted as slightly deranged for thinking that she and Dan had had an affair. In the second appearance, it is revealed that Dan is the one who is wrong and had forgotten her. She also figured prominently in the first season of The West Wing as a prostitute that Sam Seaborn accidentally slept with.
• Cress Williams, Nadia Dajani, John de Lancie and Alanna Ubach have all guest starred on both shows.
• Ross Deane and Stuart Goetz worked in the sound departments of both shows.
• Alex Graves has worked as director on episodes of both shows.
• Paul Redford has worked as writer for Sports Night and is credited as being part of "miscellaneous crew" on both shows
• W.G. Snuffy Walden acted as composer for the score of both shows.
• Kayla Blake, who played associate producer Kim on the show has also been credited as Elsie Sniffen. Former The Wonder Years actress Danica McKellar played the role of Elsie Snuffin (the sister of Joshua Malina's character) in several The West Wing episodes.
• Felicity Huffman guest starred in a second season episode of The West Wing as Ann Stark, the chief of staff for the Republican Congressional Leadership (in the episode "The Leadership Breakfast"). During the episode, Ann presents Toby Ziegler with a jar of New Hampshire maple syrup (after President Bartlet expresses his disgust that the maple syrup being served at the leadership breakfast is from Vermont and not his home state). This is a reference to a Sports Night episode in which Dana is going to Vermont for the weekend and offers to bring back maple syrup for her friends.
• Sorkin reused many names of characters and incidental names from Sports Night in The West Wing. For example, in the "Intellectual Property" episode of Sports Night, one character is named Mallory (the name of Leo McGarry's daughter in The West Wing') and the name of one athlete mentioned in a meeting is Landingham (the name of President Bartlet's secretary in the first two seasons of The West Wing is Delores Landingham). A couple of episodes in the first season mention a college football coach named Rostenkowski; The West Wing mentions a congressman with the same name.
• Season 1 episode 23: "What Kind of Day Has It Been" is also the title of the season 1 finale of The West Wing and the series finale of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Also in this episode, Casey tells his son that "the only thing you have to do to make me and your mom happy is to come home at the end of the day"; a line President Bartlet paraphrases to his daughter Ellie (played by Nina Siemaszko) in The West Wing. Nina Siemaszko also guest-stars in this episode. Also Jeremy quotes from The Lion in Winter which is latter mirrored in a conversation between Toby and the President in H.Con 172
• The plot of Season 1 episode 18: The Sword of Orion was similar to that of the episode of The West Wing entitled Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail in season 2. In the Sports Night episode, Jeremy's father and mother are getting divorced after the revelation by his father that he has been having an affair for Jeremy's whole life. Jeremy takes it hard and becomes fixated on a specific thing at work: a boating disappearance during a sailboat race in Bermuda. In The West Wing episode, Sam's dad reveals exactly the same thing, Sam takes it hard and becomes fixated on finding out the truth about an espionage case in the 1950s involving a White House staffer.

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Episode list

Season 1

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Season 2

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DVD Release

Complete series DVD cover.

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Trivia

• Both season finales ended with metaphors for the fate of the show, and the way ABC failed to promote it properly. In the 1st season, Jeremy is obsessed with a baseball game where one team is going down to defeat. He thinks they'll have a 9th inning rally, very similar to the unknown fate of the show. A major plot point of the second season involved the sale of CSC. The eventual purchaser of the network tells Dana "Anybody who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business." This is an obvious jab at ABC's failure to make the show a hit.
• Aaron Sorkin originally wanted Sports Night to be a film, but when he couldn't come up with a solid plot for it, he instead made it a television show, thinking the episode format would be easier to create ongoing plots throughout.^[2][11]
• Joshua Malina initially wanted the role of Dan Rydell.
• Brenda Strong and Felicity Huffman would later work together again on Desperate Housewives.
• Casey McCall is said to be modeled after Craig Kilborn. Dan and Casey's professional and personal relationship is said to be modeled after Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann, who were the most well-known team on SportsCenter on ESPN.
• Though mentioned quite a bit during the show, Luther Sachs, the CEO of Continental Corp, is never seen.
• In the Family Guy episode "Let's Go to the Hop," a kid realizes while he's under the influence of a hallucinogenic toad that he "finally gets Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night: It's a comedy that's too good to be funny."
• In the episode "Dear Louise," Natalie tells Casey there is an error on the teleprompter, and that they left out the 's' in the phrase 'bulging disk.' This actually happened on SportsCenter, and anchor Steve Levy said 'bulging dik' before correcting himself.^[2]
• In the episode "Cliff Gardner", J.J. and two other Network Executives critique the material written by Dan and Casey, finding it to be too funny for the average viewer. It has been speculated (not confirmed) that the conversation was adapted from a conversation Sorkin had with ABC Network Executives regarding the show's material.
• Many of the various crew members mentioned by Dan Rydell and Casey McCall during the closing scene of the "Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennesee" episode are the names of actual crew members of the ABC show.

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References

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See also

• The West Wing
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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External links

• Sports Night at TV.com
• Sports Night at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Robert Guillaume from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. This interview may not be available in some countries outside the U.S.
• Episode Guide - TKTV
• First season interview with Aaron Sorkin
• Recaps from Television Without Pity
• Inside.com article on the demise of Sports night
• ESPN article comparing itself to Sports Night