'West Wing,' 'Ugly Betty' casts reuniting at ATX TV Fest this summer
If a Friday Night Lights reunion wasn't enough to send you running to Austin this summer for the ATX TV Festival, here's something that will definitely do the trick: the casts of NBC's West Wing and ABC's Ugly Betty are heading to the Lone Star State, too.
The former will appear as part of a "West Wing Administration" panel, which will feature creator/executive producer Aaron Sorkin, director/EP Thomas Schlamme and several cast members, including Bradley Whitford, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, Richard Schiff and Janel Moloney. The panel is being held in celebration of the West Wing finale's 10-year anniversary.
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Meanwhile, the cast of Ugly Betty, which aired from 2006-10 on ABC, will hold a reunion panel that will close the festival. It will feature cast members America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Becki Newton, Michael Urie, Ashley Jensen, Ana Ortiz, Tony Plana, Mark Indelicato, Vanessa Williams and Rebecca Romijn.
Also reuniting? The cast of Rescue Me. Denis Leary, creator Peter Tolan, Callie Throne, Andrea Roth, Michael Lombardi, James McCaffrey, Lenny Clarke and Larenz Tate are all scheduled to appear.
All this is, of course, in addition to the festival's previously announced plans to host a Friday Night Lights reunion panel.
The ATX Television Festival, which is going into its fifth year, last year hosted a Gilmore Girls reunion panel that not only got fans buzzing but proved there was still life left in the series. Months later, Netflix picked up a four-episode revival of the series that's currently in production.
In terms of newer series, USA Network's Queen of the South will open the festival and there will be panels for America Ferrera's Superstore, FX's Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Starz's Survivor's Remorse, WGN's Outsiders and AT&T Audience Network's Kingdom will all be paneling.
The event takes place June 9-12, in Austin, Texas.
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Sandra Gonzalez was a Senior Television Reporter at Mashable. A Texas native, she spent almost four years in New York City before leaving the land of superstorms for Los Angeles, where she was introduced to these terrifying things called "rolling earthquakes."Previously, she was with Entertainment Weekly, where she wrote about every show that could fit into her perfectly crafted TV schedule and anything ever touched by Shonda Rhimes.You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @theSandraG
