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It’s no small secret that one of my favourite TV shows of all time was The West Wing. There was a time when Wednesday nights was my absolute favourite night of the week… sure Friends and Seinfield on Thrusday nights were pretty good but man, nothing beat the whitty dialog of the West Wing.

Every other drama on the airwaves at the time had good characters, strong writing and plot lines that would keep you talking at the water cooler for days but they also had internal character conflict. Man how we hated Dr. Romano on ER. The West Wing was very much an us-vs-them type show. The main cast were all on the same side of every issue. Sure there were internal conflicts but there was no big-bad adversary that we loved to hate. I’ve always been partial to banding together as a team and having trust and faith in your coworkers/friends/family. The nature of this show just spoke to me.

Well, for the last few years, CLT has been playing episodes of The West Wing at 7pm and 11pm. The nice thing about CLT is that they showed (from what I can tell) all the episodes, in order. I had my PVR set up to record it every day and I very much looked forward to catching up on a few episodes every couple of days.

I’m sad to say that as of September, they’ve changed their line-up and stopped playing them. This saddens me greatly… for one, I won’t be able to get my daily (or bi-daily) fix of my favourite show… but the kicker is that they stopped airing the show in the middle of the last season! They didn’t even have the decency to finish out the series. For crying out loud, the stopped after playing the first half of a to-be-continued episode. It was election day and we didn’t even get to find out how it turned out… and OMG something is wrong with Leo!!!!

Now, I’ve seen the whole series and I know exactly what happens (Santos wins and Leo died… RIP John Spencer). I’ll have to rent or buy the last season just to exercise my need to see what happens. I’ve been meaning to pick up the series on DVD and this just may be the kick in the pants to do it.

I’m disappointed in TV today… and that doesn’t happen often.

~ Jason