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Sports Night

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The Resume

Why Sports Night might be annoying:

    The network insisted on a laugh track over Sorkin's objections.
    Charles and Sorkin both threatened to quit during a dispute over a line reading.
    Although ABC paid Touchstone Television an above-average $800,000 per episode, each episode cost $1.2 million to make.
    Touchstone lost $15 million on the series.
    In a jab at ABC's inability to make the show a hit, a character in the last episode declares, 'Anybody who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business.'
    HBO and Showtime expressed interest in picking up the show but Sorkin let the series lapse so he could concentrate on The West Wing.
    A character in Family Guy called it 'a comedy that's too good to be funny.'

Why Sports Night might not be annoying:

    The volume of the laugh track was faded through the first season and was abandoned in season two.
    It featured rapid-fire, witty dialogue.
    Guillaume's real-life stroke was written into the series.
    Much of the crew went on to the West Wing.
    After the pilot, Michael Eisner told Sorkin, 'Keep this up and it'll be the next Seinfeld.'
    In a cover story, TV Guide called it 'the best show you're not watching.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 14 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 25 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 84 Votes: 51.19% Annoying