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| MSNBC Nixes Chris Matthews’s Cameo in Aaron Sorkin’s Pilot About Cable News | |||
| While he was writing the pilot script for his new HBO project More As This Story Develops, Aaron Sorkin reportedly spent some time on the set of Hardball With Chris Matthews. Makes sense, since Develops is a behind-the-scenes take on an all-news cable network. Likewise, it's not all that surprising that Sorkin would ask the camera-friendly MSNBC host to make a cameo appearance in the pilot: From Helen Thomas in The American President to Matthews himself in a 2005 episode of The West Wing, there's a history of journos playing themselves in movies and TV shows created by Sorkin. Unfortunately, Vulture hears that plans for Matthews to shoot a roundtable debate scene in Develops alongside conservative muckracker/ Weiner-eater Andrew Breitbart have had to be scrapped because, according to a production insider, Matthews's bosses at MSNBC nixed the idea. Read More » | |||
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