Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - Why the hate?

I wonder sometimes why the right-wingers are so pissed at Studio 60.

If you look at the characters, you've got the neocon wet-dream of what Hollywood is "really like": a cokehead producer who's a partner with an alcoholic, anti-Christian secular Jew, a pot-smoking black man pleading for "diversity", an ungrateful child who thinks his folks from the midwest are hopelessly hickified (and isn't he the same guy who flaunted the law in Nevada?), a network chief who has enough of a sexual history to nominate her for Whore of Babylon, etc etc.

The only character who's shown in a favorable light is the conservative Christian.

If this crowd were in one of the Left Behind books, they'd be talking about how "accurate" and everything it was, but since it's produced by Aaron Sorkin et al, It Must Be The Evil.

ST:TNG from the inside

Wil Wheaton points us to Diane Duane's blog, in which she describes her recollections of what happened with the script for "Where No One Has Gone Before".

She and Michael Reaves pitched a very different story than what was shown: Wesley's role was not as prominent, Kosinsky was not an asshole, the Traveller wasn't even in it.

Their script - highly thought of by the production crew - became a victim of crappy office politics and was extensively rewritten...by someone else.

Compare the real show (blogged on by Wil at TV Squid, er, Squad) to the second draft premise and the second draft outline.

Overall, a faskinating peek inside the world of television scriptwriting and what can go horribly, terribly wrong.