Bradley Whitford thinks The West Wing might be ready to come back as "a limited series of some kind"

This is per Variety, which was reporting from Whitford’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame ceremony on Wednesday, where co-stars Martin Sheen and Dulé Hill were among those on hand to celebrate his career. (We would have tapped Colin Hanks, personally, but we understand that we remain the last living shooters on the planet for Fox’s late, lamented The Good Guys.) Asked the inevitable “When is The West Wing coming back?” question, Whitford could only laugh before promising to “work” Sorkin. Further asked if “the time is right,” Whitford declined to immediately put himself down for another seven season commitment—he and Alison Janney are both pretty busy right now starring on The Diplomat—but did acknowledge that now might be the moment for “a limited series of some kind.”

Pretty much everybody involved in the show, meanwhile, has acknowledged that it comes back with Sorkin or not at all; people might acknowledge there’s some good Alan Alda material in the original show’s last few seasons after his departure, but nobody seems anxious to bring the series back without its creator on board. Sorkin, currently gearing up for the thoroughly apolitical release of The Social Reckoning, did muse on the possibility two years ago, when he was doing a 25th anniversary event for the series at the White House; at the time, he said that he “got a couple of ideas for episodes just” from walking and talking in the building’s halls.