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Originally Posted by 1nutworld

West Wing was the one of the reasons that Sports Night was cancelled. :(

There were other contractual as well as ratings reasons, but unfortunatly, West Wing helped end Sports Night....oh well.

Looked up the story on Wiki & IMDB to make sure, & the primary reasons for SN's cancellation was low ratings & a trigger-happy programming deflector at ABC. TWW being picked up did distract Sorkin from fighting harder to save SN, but mostly he was so pissed off at ABC he said fuck all & moved on. There were some suggestions of Sports Night being picked up by HBO, but discussions broke down quickly...