TV addicts, prepare to celebrate. If, like us you’re a big fan of US White House drama The West Wing - and specifically the “earlier, funnier” years th🔜at were overseen by creator Aaron Sorkin - you’ll be no doubt thrilled to hear that Bradley Whitford, best known as Josh Lyman, has been cast in Sorkin’s next show, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.

Studio 60 follows the behind-the-scenes dramas of a Saturday Night Live-style TV comedy show. And Sorkin has chosen an assortment of thesps to launch the new series. Matthew Perry, who some might remember from a vaguely popular sitcom (“Chums”, was it?) will co-star alongside🃏 Whitford, playing a former staff member on the show who returns to help run it when the current executive producer has a meltdown on air (think Network) and is fired.

Also on board are Timothy Busfield (The West Wing&𒅌rsquo;s Danny Concannon), Steven Weber (last seen in Timecode), US comedian DL Hughly, Nate Corddry (one of The Daily Show’s fake correspondents) and Sarah Paulson, who was last seen as the﷽ doomed research scientist in Serenity.

Given Sorkin’s slightly dodgy hiꦑstory of late script delivery, it’s comforting to know that some of the team who helped make The West Wing such a success early on are also returning, including director and regular Sorkin collaborator Thomas Schlamme. The show is shooting a pilot this month and US network NBC has already ordered 13 episodes. It’s still early days, but if anything is a sure-fire seal of quality, it’s Sorkin’s name at the top of a show.