Following short-lived, but largely spectacular Sports Night and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (especially Sports Night) - Aaron Sorkin is writing a third show about what goes on behind the scenes at a television show.

Sorkin, the creator of one of the greatest TV shows ever in The West Wing, spoke with TVGuide.com about his new project…

“I’m going to be starting on a new TV series” when filming is done on the upcoming movie “The Social Network,” the Sorkin-penned account of the founding of Facebook directed by David Fincher, he says. “It’s going to be what turns out to be the third in the trilogy of TV shows that take place behind the scenes of a TV show, but this will be a different kind of TV show. That’s all I can let out of the bag right now.”

Later in the interview, Sorkin said he would love to reunite with some of the people he has worked with during past projects for his new TV show.

“If you’re a writer,” Sorkin said.  “When you find an actor like Josh Malina, Felicity Huffman, Brad Whitford, Matt Perry, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, all these great actors that I’ve worked with, you just want to stick them in your pocket and work with them forever, so I hope so.”

I hope so too, and I can’t wait for a new TV program from Sorkin.  I’m running out of interesting things to watch on network television.

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