The West Wing Weekly
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| Updates | Weekly |
| Original release | March 23, 2016 – present |
| Provider | Radiotopia |
| Website | http://thewestwingweekly.com/ |
The West Wing Weekly is an American podcast hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway and Joshua Malina. In each episode, the hosts discuss one episode of the popular television program The West Wing, which originally aired on NBC from 1999 to 2006. The podcast has featured various cast and crew members including series creator Aaron Sorkin, director Tommy Schlamme, Rob Lowe, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney, Marlee Matlin, and Dulé Hill, as well as former government officials, academics, and pundits among others.
The New York Times described the podcast as "taking a fine-tooth comb to each episode of [the] political drama.
Joshua Malina, who played Will Bailey in the The West Wing, said, "I've been a frequent guest on other people's podcasts, and I have always wanted to find something that I could call my own," collaborating with his friend and the host of the podcast Song Exploder, Hrishikesh Hirway, to start the podcast. The first episode was released on 22 March 2016 and new episodes are released weekly on Wednesdays. In September 2016, the podcast was added to the Radiotopia network.
The podcast debuted on March 22, 2016 with an episode discussing the pilot episode of The West Wing. The first guest of the podcast was Dulé Hill, who played the role of Charlie Young on the series. Other guests during the season included cast members Janel Moloney, Lyn Paolo, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, William Duffy, Peter James Smith, Liza Weil, Kathleen York, Bill O'Brien, Tim Matheson and other guests such as writer Eli Attie, Ronald Klain, Senator Bob Casey Jr., former White House spokesperson Jay Carney, Patrick Murphy, and Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson. The season also included a 10 year reunion episode with The West Wing cast at the ATX Television Festival and a discussion panel with the FiveThirtyEight team.
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