Aaron Sorkin Has Given Up TV... Kind Of

THE NEWSROOM writer Aaron Sorkin recently announced his retirement from TV.

"I know the whole 'Never say never' stuff," said Sorkin. "But I'm pretty certain I'm about to write my last three episodes of television."

"Yeah. And I want to be really clear about this. Really clear about this," he said. "I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'"

But then, he does not seem completely commited to his reitrement decision.

"All these months later, I still don't see another series in my near future," Sorkin said. "But, again, you never know. Maybe I'll get another idea."

Aaron Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy Award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and The Newsroom.

In television, Sorkin is known as a controlling writer who rarely shares credit on his screenplays. His trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.

Source: LA Times