It has been nearly 20 days sinceThe West Wingmade itstelevisiondebut — and more than a decade since its close air . Yet fans of the award - winning political dramatic play have n’t quite gotten over the fictional D.C. Aaron Sorkin created , and still have a lot of enquiry . Is Jed Barlet alive and kick ? Are Josh Lyman and Donna Moss living happily ever after ? Can C.J. Cregg still raid out “ The Jackal ” on need ? Does anyone wish what happened to Mandy Hampton?The West Wing Weekly , Hrishikesh Hirway and Joshua Malina ’s popular podcast , has kept fans fill in on the show ’s behind - the - prospect antics . But now role player Richard Schiff has hinted that a reboot of the serial could be in the works , agree toDeadline .
When asked about the possibleness of reviving the Peabody Award - succeed series by the Popcorn Talk connection’sI Could Never Be , Schiff — who bring home the bacon an Emmy for his role on the serial as Toby Ziegler — admitted that he and Sorkin have talked about the theory .
“ Aaron has said he wanted it to happen , ” Schiff said , explaining that if a reboot did happen , it “ might go with a unexampled administration , in which typesetter’s case , you know , some of us might show up as consultants … it makes no sensory faculty , perchance one or two of us to be in the White House . ”
But Schiff has some of his own idea about what the series could be :
( For the phonograph record , Schiff sound out that he shared his idea with Sorkin and “ he loved it . ” )
At the moment , Sorkin might have his hands full : His new adaption of Harper Lee’sTo stamp out a Mockingbirdjustbrokethe phonograph record for the highest - gross single workweek of an American shimmer on Broadway . But that does n’t mean the Oscar - winning auteur has n’t tease his own idea for what a new version ofThe West Wingmight look like .
In 2017 , SorkintoldThe Hollywood Reporterthat in his judgement , The West Wing : Reduxwould see " Sterling K. Brown as the president , and there ’s some kind of press , an emergency , a very frail billet necessitate the threat of war or something , and [ President ] Bartlet , long since retired , is consulted in the direction that Bill Clinton used to confer with Nixon . ”
All of which tap the obvious inquiry : What ’s next ?
