Until catching up with American posters here, I hadn't realised "Commander In Chief" had been axed.
Joy, oh joy.
We've just cleared our PVR of the unseen episodes that stacked up whilst we were away, having set the unit to make weekly recordings of CiC's first (and now, it would appear, only) UK season during our absence.
Tempting, though, to keep the pilot, through which we did manage to suffer, if only as an instance of the gulf that separates great US television (West Wing) from dross US TV (CinC).
Most tempting of all was to save the sequence where the President of the USA decides to invade Nigeria, a client state of China, in order to protect the right of women to have sex.
Well, there's one heady issue West Wing never managed to touch upon in all its careful, considered explorations of global realpolitik.
But it's the scene of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jovially informing the Nigerian Amabassador: "Hey, we're rather good at this!" which will long resonate.
As long as TV shows as dumb as this attract the kind of support seen on this board, it's no wonder Mr Bush has such a constituency of belief to draw upon when seeking to demonstrate in reality what Rod Lurie so clumsily sought to demonstrate in fiction -- that be it Nigeria or Iraq, America really is pretty good at this. . .
C'mon home, Jeb. America needs you now more than ever.
Joy, oh joy.
We've just cleared our PVR of the unseen episodes that stacked up whilst we were away, having set the unit to make weekly recordings of CiC's first (and now, it would appear, only) UK season during our absence.
Tempting, though, to keep the pilot, through which we did manage to suffer, if only as an instance of the gulf that separates great US television (West Wing) from dross US TV (CinC).
Most tempting of all was to save the sequence where the President of the USA decides to invade Nigeria, a client state of China, in order to protect the right of women to have sex.
Well, there's one heady issue West Wing never managed to touch upon in all its careful, considered explorations of global realpolitik.
But it's the scene of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff jovially informing the Nigerian Amabassador: "Hey, we're rather good at this!" which will long resonate.
As long as TV shows as dumb as this attract the kind of support seen on this board, it's no wonder Mr Bush has such a constituency of belief to draw upon when seeking to demonstrate in reality what Rod Lurie so clumsily sought to demonstrate in fiction -- that be it Nigeria or Iraq, America really is pretty good at this. . .
C'mon home, Jeb. America needs you now more than ever.