Studio 60 - Sting's 'Fields of Gold' with Matt and Harriet

One of my favorite moments from the series. Sting plays a beautiful rendition of Fields of Gold on the lute while Matt and Harriet talk. The brilliant production of poignant scenes such as these can nearly be considered Sorkin's MO. While this made the West Wing wildly popular, romanticizing Hollywood failed to appeal to as large of an audience. IIn my opinion the canceling of the show was yet another example of a major TV network investing in quantity over quality--pulling in a lot of ad money as quickly as possible with no thought to long-term viewer loyalty or their own reputation. Sorkin's frank discussion of these same issues through "Studio 60" surely contributed to its unfortunate demise.

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• studio 60
• aaron sorkin
• sting fields of gold
• matt alby
• harriet hayes
• lute

[AbominableMarshmello]

I was looking all over for this show and found it at my library by some crazy coincidence.

The most underrated television show ever made. I can't stop watching it.

[qiudee]

I have only found this series on DVD recently. How come an intelligent, smart, and yet funny and entertaining show like this got cancelled ??

[babytweeze85]

@qiudee simple, there was too much talent. The show was too expensive to make. 30 Rock (which debuted with Studio 60) had a much lower budget because it was essentially SNL people. The ratings weren't high enough to justify paying D.L Amanda Timothy Bradley and Matt and that's the big 5.

[atpapado2]

Also, reacting to older comments, yes its extremely witty and intelligent, and it is all included in the spot on descreption of this video. Quantity over quality. Dont kid yourselves though, this is not on TV only. This is everywhere you look. Few are the pure things left in this world, and i count this show as one of them.

[atpapado2]

@Description and Top Comments Amazingly said !

Could it ever be that cancellation isn't an immediate result of the TV networks decisions ? People may be used to "illiterate" programming (quoting Jordan in the same series), a result of TV networks' decisions again, so they are just failing to appreciate quality, hence the low rating, hence the cancellation.

[777Trigger]

One of the biggest travesties in Television.....This show not getting at least a 2nd season!!

[raggaresset]

@qiudee Because the important persons in this world are often retarded..

[raggaresset]

why does all the good tv shows have to come to an end? fuck vampires and other shit, I want studio 60 !!

[brembo877]

i couldnt agree with you more @korbnep, this is my fav scene of the entire series, when i heard that the series was canceled i literally couldnt believe it, i thot it was some stupid ppl's magazine BS rumor, if that series was on HBO maybe we could've had been watching the 3rd or 4th season of this epic series, 22 episodes of a nutcracker level of creativity from sorkin, @drewfla u r absolutely right, that god we have HBO keeping some good series alive on tv, no more counting on nbc cbs fox abc!

[TheHYPO]

30 Rock was a comedy in a different time slot, and it's fairly smart and well written too. I don't think it's fair to blame 30 rock for killing Studio 60. Both are great shows