West Wing - Tutti gli uomini del Presidente

Ambientata nell'Ala Ovest della Casa Bianca (da cui il titolo) dove lavora il Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America e il suo staff, e dove è ubicato il famoso Studio Ovale, racconta le problematiche quotidiane, le difficili decisioni pubbliche e private del Presidente democratico Josiah "Jed" Bartlet e del suo staff, dalla campagna per la sua prima elezione al giuramento del suo successore, otto anni dopo.
Creato da: Aaron Sorkin |
Genere: Dramma |
http://www.nbc.com/The_West_Wing/
Numero di stagioni: 7
Numero di episodi: 154
Data prima messa in onda: 1999-09-22
Data ultima messa in onda: 2006-05-14

Approfondimenti

Kylie Tyndall and Keaton Tyndall were set to appear in scenes of an episode filmed at the Los Angele [...]	D
After leaving the show, Aaron Sorkin claimed that when he began watching the season five premiere (t [...]	D
At the 2000 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Awards (the Emmys), the show won a record nine E [...]	D
While The West Wing is not completely accurate in its portrayal of the actual West Wing, former Whit [...]	D
The character of Amy Gardner was temporarily written off the show because Mary-Louise Parker was vis [...]	D
After Aaron Sorkin and Rick Cleveland won an Emmy for writing the episode "In Excelsis Deo", only So [...]	D
The show frequently employed a device in which characters have conversations while walking through t [...]	D
For the first season, Stockard Channing and Allison Janney received Emmy nominations for Supporting [...]	D
The rapper Method Man's 2004 song "Never Hold Back" includes the lyric, "Catch me in the West Wing, [...]	D
The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White House, where the Oval Office and offices o [...]	D
this is Aaron sorkin's only TV series to not focus on the behind the scenes of a television show.	D
The West Wing has received praise from critics, political science professors, and former White House [...]	D
In 2012, cast members Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzg [...]	D
During the first season, an episode centers around the census during the second year of the Presiden [...]	D
The name Josh Lyman is from a Doonesbury strip in the 1990s. He also worked in the White House. This [...]	D
The campaign episodes from the sixth season that were meant to take place in New Hampshire and Iowa [...]	D
Seventeen actors and actresses from Aaron Sorkin's first show Sports Night (1998) appeared in this s [...]	D
On January 24, 2014, the Obama White House announced that in the spirit of both Andrew Jackson and t [...]	D
Aaron Sorkin resigned from his job as writer and executive producer after the fourth season, followi [...]	D
Once while the show was filming in Georgetown at about three o'clock in the morning, an irate lady r [...]	D
Several times throughout the series someone uses the phrase, "column inches above the fold." The fol [...]	D
Bradley Whitford was originally cast as Sam. Whitford, who had read for the part of Josh, called Aar [...]	D
On the set of the series one day, Allison Janney was entertaining the cast and crew by lip-syncing t [...]	D
The set was supposedly so realistic that Warner Brothers studio tour groups are not permitted inside [...]	D
In the DVD extras for season four, John Spencer and Stockard Channing both say that in the Abbey-Jed [...]	D
According to an article in The New York Times (October 29, 2008), shortly after then-Illinois State [...]	D
During an episode of the "West Wing Weekly" podcast hosted by Joshua Malina and Hrishikesh Hirway, A [...]	D
During Season 4, in episode "Evidence of Things Not Seen", Will Baily (Joshua Malina) stops in at a [...]	D
The West Wing received a multitude of accolades including two Peabody Awards, three Golden Globe Awa [...]	D
In April 2006, executive producer Lawrence O'Donnell told the New York Times that until the death of [...]	D
The drive-up "West Wing" entrance most often filmed for the show is actually a set used to cover a l [...]	D
During the run-up to the 2020 presidential election (and also during a global pandemic), many member [...]	D
The character of Mandy (Moira Kelly) was abandoned after the first season. Aaron Sorkin and Kelly bo [...]	D
During the sixth season, NiCole Robinson (Margaret) became pregnant. Although the show did choose to [...]	D
Two characters on this show share the same distinctive names as two people involved with the Nixon P [...]	D
Eugene Levy was considered to play Toby Ziegler.	D
After being advised by Josh that "she (C.J. Cregg) likes goldfish", Danny Concannon mistakenly gives [...]	D
The character of Josh Lyman, played by Bradley Whitford, often makes jokes about his assistant Donna [...]	D
Martin Sheen is a die hard Frank Sinatra fan and knows the words to all his songs. Aaron Sorkin inco [...]	D
Janel Moloney originally auditioned for the part of CJ Cregg.	D
Dulé Hill only did six episodes on the last season of the show, because he was already shooting s [...]	D
In the show's version of American history, Matthew Santos (Jimmy Smits) is identified as the first H [...]	D
In its first season, The West Wing attracted critical attention in the television community with a r [...]	D
Martin Sheen has played the U.S. President many times throughout his career, most notably as John F. [...]	D
Ronald Reagan may have been the last real-life US president to be the US president in this show's un [...]	D
Janel Moloney was never supposed to be a regular. Co-star Bradley Whitford pointed out the obvious c [...]	D
An early storyline in the series involves Charlie (Dulé Hill) and Zoey (Elisabeth Moss) stating t [...]	D
Rob Lowe and Lisa Edelstein, who portray lovers in the first few episodes, would reunite to play for [...]	D
Final project of John Spencer, who quit acting in movies to fully concentrate in his role as Leo McG [...]	D
Former Senate aide Lawrence O'Donnell and former White House aide and presidential campaign speechwr [...]	D
Senator Hillary Clinton wrote an open letter addressed to Josh Lyman when he suggested closing a mil [...]	D
The theme of this show, from the pilot to episode four, differed from subsequent episodes, as it was [...]	D
Elisabeth Moss (Zoey Bartlet) & Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman) also worked together on The Handmaid's [...]	D
Martin Sheen (President Josiah Bartlet) is 5'7". But in fact, not a single president in the twentiet [...]	D
While critics often praised The West Wing for its writing, others faulted the show as unrealisticall [...]	D
Whenever the weather is shown on the news scroll, the temperature highs and lows are always the same [...]	D
Real World issues explored in The West Wing include: North Korean and Iranian nuclear ambitions, Str [...]	D
For the 2001-2002 season, nine cast members were nominated for Emmys. Allison Janney, John Spencer a [...]	D
In season three, Mark Harmon has a four-episode story arc as a Secret Service agent. It was his comm [...]	D
Semi-regular character reporter Danny Concannon is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Jed Bartlet is a Nobel L [...]	D
Although Lily Tomlin (Deborah Fiderer) did not join the cast until season three, episode twenty-two [...]	D
The West Wing is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential television series of all time. [...]	D
The West Wing is noted for developing the "walk-and-talk"-long Steadicam tracking shots showing char [...]	D
Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire was a member of the Second Continental Congress in 1776, and signed [...]	D
Throughout the seven seasons of the show, Toby Ziegler, as played by Richard Schiff, smiles a grand [...]	D
Edward James Olmos was asked to play Judge Mendoza on a semi-regular capacity, and even though he wa [...]	D
When he asked C.J. (Allison Janney) out on a date, Danny said, "I enjoy movies, I enjoy music, I'm n [...]	D
At the beginning of the show's sixth season, Israel's ambassador flew from Washington, D.C. to Los A [...]	D
At the end of its run in May 2006 and celebrated at its final Emmy appearance in August 2006, West W [...]	D
The state dinner with Indonesia is held in a beautiful room. Said room was also used as as the Briti [...]	D
Over the course of the series, fifteen different actors and actresses appeared in the main credits: [...]	D
John Spencer and Bradley Whitford previously worked together on "Presumed Innocent" with Harrison Fo [...]	D
Some of the exterior shots of the West Wing office were filmed on-location at the South Portico [...]	D
The set was the largest constructed for both a pilot and a television series to date. It was so larg [...]	D
In the opening credits, there is a still shot of Martin Sheen's character, President Bartlet leaning [...]	D
Although she was mentioned several times in the first episode, Bartlet's eldest daughter Elizabeth i [...]	D
The show's ratings waned in later years following the departure of series creator Aaron Sorkin after [...]	D
This was the first American drama series to react to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the [...]	D
Aaron Sorkin told Entertainment Weekly that the first actor he and the producers wanted to play Pres [...]	D
When President Bartlet's longtime secretary and friend, Mrs. Landingham (Kathryn Joosten) died, her [...]	D
The blackboard in Josh Lyman's office, used to keep track of votes, often features the names of real [...]	D
In 2011, Kal Penn told The New York Times that on the first night of his job in the Obama Administra [...]	D
Ranked #4 on Empire magazine's 50 Greatest TV Shows Of All Time (2008).	D
In a July 2015 interview with New York Magazine, Lin-Manuel Miranda says that the TV series The West [...]	D
The unusual name of the recurring character played by Danica McKellar, Elsie Snuffin, was inspired b [...]	D
The series had a budget of $2.7 million per episode in its first season.	D
The Oval Office set originally designed by Michael J. Taylor was constructed for Dave - Presidente p [...]	D
When Rob Lowe announced he would be leaving the show in the fourth season, among the names considere [...]	D
In an interview in June 2014, Aaron Sorkin revealed that it was Mary-Louise Parker who contacted him [...]	D
Readers of TV Guide voted the cast of The West Wing their Best Drama cast of all time, receiving 37% [...]	D
During a 2014 Screen Actors Guild Foundation interview with Roger Rees (moderated by writer Rick Eli [...]	D
Martin Sheen also played the President (albeit in another character's premonition) in La zona morta [...]	D
Each of the principal actors made approximately $75,000 per episode, with Martin Sheen's confirmed s [...]	D
In 2010, for the 20th anniversary of Entertainment Weekly Magazine, EW reunited Martin Sheen (Presid [...]	D
Lily Tomlin (Deborah Fiderer) and Martin Sheen (Jed Bartlet) also worked together on Grace and Frank [...]	D
John Spencer (Leo McGarry) died of a heart attack on December 16, 2005, about a year after his chara [...]	D
Traditionally, during a Republican administration, a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt is hung in the R [...]	D
In season four, episode six, Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) visits a Mattress World. As he enters, he holds [...]	D
Rob Lowe was engaged to Melissa Gilbert in the 1980s, they broke up in 1987. In 2013, Timothy Busfie [...]	D
Won the Best Drama Series Emmy in each of its first four seasons.	D
A documentary special in the third season compared the show's depiction of the West Wing to the real [...]	D
The show has a strong connection to the Revenge of the Nerds franchise. Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman [...]	D
Martin Sheen's somewhat unusual way of putting his jacket on is due to an injury to his arm sustaine [...]	D
The Writers Guild of America ranked the series #10 in its "101 Best-Written TV Series" list.	D
This show often reused the same names for different characters over the course of the series. Josh v [...]	D
James Brolin stated in a recent interview (2015) that he originally signed on to do five episodes, b [...]	D
Leo's "Big Block of Cheese" story is true. Andrew Jackson received an enormous block of cheese from [...]	D
Actors originally considered to play the President included Alan Alda, Sidney Poitier, and Jason Rob [...]	D
The theme music for "Capitol Beat", the news show hosted by Mark Gottfried (Ted McGinley), is actual [...]	D
In season one, episode nineteen, "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet", during the meeting in the Roosevelt room [...]	D
During the sixth and seventh seasons, Toby's storyline concerns a leak to the press about the existe [...]	D
Annabeth Schott's (Kristin Chenoweth's) resumé says that she was a valedictorian at Barwood High [...]	D
Following the departure of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme after season four, Richard Schiff felt t [...]	D
The California assembly was adjourned by a San Francisco Democrat for the purposes of mourning the d [...]	D
President Gerald Ford's daughter Susan Ford made the comment "I can't watch [the show]. They turn le [...]	D
Martin Sheen was originally only scheduled to appear in four episodes per season. It was only after [...]	D
Allison Janney (C.J. Cregg) & Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman) also worked together on episode 4.9, Mom [...]	D
In a 2006 LA Times article, real-life former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers (a consultant [...]	D

Connessioni

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Domande

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Errori

In real life, Sam would have been fired and possibly prosecuted for his involvement with Laurie, the [...]	D
In a couple of instances, Secret Service agents are seen holding an umbrella for a protectee. In rea [...]	D
During much of the series, characters refer to "battle carrier groups" as the group of ships that ar [...]	D
When walking through a hotels kitchen and back entrance Bartlet sees a young couple kissing and he m [...]	D
In a couple of episodes, New Hampshire State Trooper cruisers are shown as brown, and have red and b [...]	D
Both Leo and Toby can be seen wearing wedding bands in seasons when their characters were divorced.	D
During outdoor scenes filmed for the 1999-2000 first season, the Washington Monument can be seen in [...]	D
Whenever President Barlett exits a limo, a secret service agent can be seen closing the door behind [...]	D
One aspect of this series is the frequent use of bogus statistics. Almost none of the statistics are [...]	D
President Bartlet's code name, in one of the first episodes, is "Eagle." As he passes the Secret Ser [...]	D
Secret Service code names for the First Family always begin with the same letter (for example, the O [...]	D
Sam's office changes from Season 1 to Season 2. It suddenly has a new window.	D
Episode 4.02, Twenty Hours in America Part II, Donna, Josh an Toby are soaking wet when the go into [...]	D
In several episodes they reference Myanmar. In fact, the US along with most western governments do n [...]	D
We see the inside of Josh's apartment several times throughout the series, but it's different every [...]	D
Characters repeatedly refer to the lectern in the press briefing room as the podium. The podium is t [...]	D
In various episodes throughout the series, President Bartlett mentions that he has won a Nobel Prize [...]	D
White House sugar packets do not have labels or manufacturers' names on them, only a presidential se [...]	D
The pendulum of the grandfather clock in the Oval Office, never moves.	D
Some long shots of Washington from season 1 are flipped horizontally, e.g: at one point, the Smithso [...]	D
Several times characters refer to military hardware by incomplete names; for example: "AIM Sidewinde [...]	D
Members of the US Secret Service Uniformed Division (White House police officers) do not wear their [...]	D
At one point, National Security Advisor Nancy McNally makes a reference to "M2 Bradleys with 120 mm [...]	D
First-season scenes shot on location in Washington D.C. show the Washington monument encased in the [...]	D

Frase

Reporter: Would the White House care to comment on [...]	D
President Josiah Bartlet: [Before the State of the [...]	D
Leo McGarry: This guy's walkin' down a street when [...]	D
Donna Moss: She should stick around. Your whole ca [...]	D
Representative Matthew Santos: I don't care if it' [...]	D
[still new to the White House, Josh can't find his [...]	D
Representative Matthew Santos: Who's that hugging [...]	D
[repeated line] President Josiah Bartlet: What's [...]	D
Sen. Arnold Vinick: [closing remarks at Republican [...]	D

Elenchi

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Stagioni

N		Titolo	Soggetto	Data della prima messa in onda	Numero di episodi
0		Speciali		2001	3	D
1		Stagione 1		1999	22	D
2		Stagione 2	Poco dopo essere stati presi di mira da aspiranti assassini, il Presidente e il suo staff diventano il bersaglio di personaggi politici rivali che intendono portare subbuglio. Ciò nonostante i colleghi, ben determinati, proseguono il loro lavoro.	2000	22	D
3		Stagione 3		2001	21	D
4		Stagione 4		2002	23	D
5		Stagione 5		2003	22	D
6		Stagione 6		2004	22	D
7		Stagione 7		2005	22	D

Cast

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