Mister Sterling

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Mister Sterling

Format	Political serial drama
Created by	Lawrence O'Donnell
Starring	Josh Brolin Audra McDonald William Russ David Noroña James Whitmore Chandra West
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	January 10, 2003 – March 14, 2003
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Mister Sterling is an American television serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin as an idealistic United States Senator, and featured Audra McDonald, William Russ, David Noroña, and James Whitmore as members of his staff. Despite mostly positive reviews, the show, which aired on NBC on Friday nights, sparked middle of the pack ratings and was cancelled after ten episodes.

Although it had numerous similarities to The West Wing in style and tone (especially the show's idealistic attitude towards politics), it was not set in the same universe as O'Donnell's other political show. (It is unknown if a cross-over would have ever occurred had "Mister Sterling" not been cancelled; however Steven Culp played presidential aspirant Sen. Ron Garland on Mister Sterling and House Speaker Jeff Haffley on The West Wing.)

James Whitmore was nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing former Governor Bill Sterling, the senator's father.

The series was produced by Bernadette Joyce, co-producer; Garry A. Brown, co-producer; Michael Dinner, co-executive producer; Sandy Frank, co-producer; Jim Hart, co-executive producer; Jeff Melvoin, co-executive producer; Andrea Newman, producer; Lawrence O'Donnell, executive producer; Chip Vucelich, co-producer; William Bradley, consulting producer.