Night' has great potential By Ed Sholinsky Daily Arts Writer When is a sitcom not a sitcom When said sitcom is Sports Night. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In fact, Sports Night is at its best when it's not trying to be funny, giving it the feel of a half-hour drama. The idea for Sports Night is SportsCenter meets The Larry Sanders Show. Series creator and writer Aaron Sorkin ...

SF Gate Home Today's News Sports Entertainment Technology Live Views Traffic Weather Health Business Bay Area Travel Columnists Classifieds Search Index Comedy and drama and sports TIM GOODMAN Tuesday, September 22, 1998 Sports Night' is a send-up set at a network suspiciously like ESPN There's no question that Sports Night is one of the best and freshest offerings of the new fall season - the ...

Subscriptions Advertisers BACK TO... Home FYI . CLASSIFIED ARCHIVES OBITUARIES TALKBACK CALENDAR LOCAL SPORTS BUSINESS FYI ENTERTAINMENT Email this story | Plain text for printing COMMENT: ABC's cancellation of `Sports Night' is an opportunity for HBO By KINNEY LITTLEFIELD - The Orange County Register Date: 05/28/00 22:15 How un Sporting of ABC. How short-sighted. How dumb. But it is hoped that ...

SF Gate Home Today's News Sports Entertainment Technology Live Views Traffic Weather Health Business Bay Area Travel Columnists Classifieds Search Index Four months back TIM GOODMAN Monday, May 3, 1999 Seasonal sign-off of brilliant, daring Sports Night' leaves a vacuum We're out. Two minutes back. Every week you hear that as the first commercial break comes up on the fictional Sports Night ...

Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Story last updated at 4:31 p.m. on Monday, November 9, 1998 ABC's 'Sports Night' hard to categorize, but very enjoyable By Charlie Patton Times-Union television writer ABC's new series Sports Night is a strange, difficult-to-define hybrid. It's either a sitcom without jokes or prime-time television's only half-hour drama. But if the genre to which Sports Night belongs ...

Sunday, January 31, 1999 Story last updated at 8:50 p.m. on Saturday, January 30, 1999 Sitcom survival In the ratings-driven world of television, the pressure to be funny is no laughing matter During the recent midseason press tour in Los Angeles, Times-Union television writer Nancy McAlister visited the sets of several prime-time sitcoms in different stages of their TV lives. What she got was a ...

SF Gate Home Today's News Sports Entertainment Technology Live Views Traffic Weather Health Business Bay Area Travel Columnists Classifieds Search Index Malina Gets Into the Swing of `Sports Night' But critically acclaimed show may need a ratings boost to survive second season Sylvia Rubin, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, October 5, 1999 Joshua Malina owes his career, even his marriage, to ...

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Sports Night: A higher IQ than any other half-hour comedy. Think you have to spend an hour to get good dramatic payoff Think again. The ensemble cast is only one reason why Sports Night works so well. Sports Night airs Tuesdays at 9:30 pm on ABC. These days, it seems the hallmark of quality in television is owned by the one-hour drama. NYPD Blue, ER, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (for some ...

Sports Night' one of best players in season's starting lineup Tuesday, September 22, 1998 By Rob Owen, Post- Gazette TV Editor Each fall, those of us who watch TV for a living beg and plead with viewers to tune into a show that may not immediately appeal to a broad enough audience to keep it on the air. TV Preview: Sports Night When: 9:30 tonight on ABC Starring: Josh Charles, Casey McCall, ...