Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

The West Wing

June 2024

  • close-up of Black man wearing fedora and grey suit

    Bill Cobbs, Night at the Museum, The Bodyguard and Air Bud actor, dies aged 90

    Veteran character actor, who had almost 200 credits and often played a familiar and memorable everyman, likely died of natural causes, says publicist

September 2022

  • Martha Gill

    Political events now so quickly turn into TV drama that we risk confusing fact and fiction

    Martha Gill
    This England covers Boris Johnson’s time in office. But that was only yesterday...

June 2022

  • Power players … is political TV now impossible in Britain?

    Boris won’t go that easily! The Undeclared War and the perils of writing near-future TV

  • Lucy Webster

    When the world gets too much, I reach for The West Wing

    Lucy Webster

May 2022

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    High-spend politics might make great TV, but democracy pays the price for it

    Torsten Bell
    Those who wish Westminster was more like The West Wing should take note of research on election spending caps in Brazil

April 2022

  • Apple of our eye … Inji Jeong, Yeji Yeon and Bomin Kim star in the outstanding Pachinko on Apple TV+.

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #29: From All 4 to Netflix, the one show to watch on every streamer

    In this week’s newsletter: not sure what to stream next? Let us make it easy for you by picking the one must-watch on every UK service

March 2022

  • Aaron Sorkin at the Gielgud theatre, London, March 2022.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Aaron Sorkin: ‘Screenwriters write about people who are cooler than we are’

    The American writer known for The West Wing, Moneyball and The Social Network on adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage in the 21st century

March 2021

  • Downton Abbey, Twin Peaks, Parks and Recreation, 24 and Girls.

    Six hours, 25 minutes
    'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now

  • Composite of old TV sets with images of old TV shows (clockwise from top left) The Sopranos; Only Fools And Horses; Fawlty Towers; Relocation, Relocation; Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    ‘Grange Hill was bigger than Love Island’: the rise of nostalgia TV

November 2020

  • Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing.

    My joyous return to The West Wing

    Brief letters: GP services | US election | Northampton Town | Neeps | Covid vaccine | Cryptic crossword

October 2020

  • West Wing

    Vote Bartlet: The 10 best episodes of The West Wing

  • The West Wing reunion was filmed at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles in October, with Covid protocols in place.

    West Wing cast reunites for special performance to promote voting drive

September 2019

  • Team Bartlet … from left, Abbey Bartlet (Stockard Channing), Donna Moss (Janel Moloney), Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen), Leo McGarry (John Spencer), Charlie Young (Dulé Hill), Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), CJ Cregg (Allison Janney) and Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff).

    We got Obama elected! West Wing stars relive the parties, pranks and power games

  • The best TV of the century composite.

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

January 2019

  • The Killing; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Game of Thrones; Dexter; Atlanta; Killing Eve; Night Night; Bodyguard

    Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die

  • Patrick Melrose; The Sopranos; Mad Men; Breaking bad; 24; Killing Eve; Stranger Things; Peaky Blinders; Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Handmaid's Tale, Bodyguard; Insecure

    ‘It’s doing what novels did 100 years ago’: how TV became a cultural force

July 2018

  • Guardian Hay Festival 2006, Hay on Wye, Wales, Britain - 2006<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Justin Williams/REX (594331h) Alan Alda Guardian Hay Festival 2006, Hay on Wye, Wales, Britain - 2006

    Alan Alda reveals Parkinson's disease diagnosis

  • Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson in Homeland

    'It was very destructive to my soul': the biggest bust-ups in TV history

June 2018

  • Fly By Night by Duke Riley sees over 1500 LED-lit pigeons soar into the skies above the River Thames. The works comes to London following its premiere in 2016 at New YorkÕs Brooklyn Navy Yard. RileyÕs airborne installation has been reimagined for LondonÕs historical military location of Thamesmead, south east London. Part of 14-18 NOW, the work pays homage to the carrier pigeons who played such crucial roles in delivery messages between distant personnel during the First World War. Fly By Night runs from 21-23 June as part of LIFT, 14-18 NOW and Greenwich &amp; Dockland International Festival. www.liftfestival.comLondon. Composite of five individual exposures. Photograph by David Levene.16/6/18 **** Embargoed until Wednesday 20th June 2018 ****

    The week in theatre: Fly By Night; Notes from the Field; An Octoroon; Phobiarama – reviews

    LIFT Crossness Pumping Station, London; LIFT Royal Court, London; Dorfman Theatre, London; LIFT King’s Cross, London

April 2018

  • Film and Television<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1591404a) Hill Street Blues , Daniel J Travanti Film and Television

    TV and radio blog
    Steven Bochco: the cop show pioneer who paved the way for The Wire

    With its swaggering, chaotic style, Bochco’s hit drama Hill Street Blues revolutionised TV and inspired a generation of showrunners
About 171 results for The West Wing
1234...
  翻译: