With so many TV shows from The Good Wife to 30 Rock taking recent shots at Aaron Sorkin, we almost forgot about Sorkin’s own TV-tackling show, an HBO pilot he wrote about the Keith Olbermann–like host of a cable news channel. The Daily got its hands on the still-untitled script, which Sorkin researched by spending time with Olbermann before the newsman ditched MSNBC for Current; here, the Olbermann stand-in is named “Will McAllister,” and he’s a network-taunting liberal who likes the ladies. In fact, the show opens with McAllister returning from a sexy St. Lucia vacation with ESPN’s Erin Andrews, only to find — in a twist that will surprise no one who has watched an Aaron Sorkin show before — that his show’s new executive producer is his former love Mackensie McHale. (Apparently, this pilot will have more grunted “Macs” and “Mcs” than a dinner rush at McDonald’s.) [Daily]
