Sports Night
Quo Vadimus (2)
TV Flash files “Quo Vadimus (2)” as a desk essential hour — Sports Night (1998–2000) on ABC, season 2, episode 22, aired 2000-05-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 45 of 45 in the Sports Night guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 2000-05-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “La Forza Del Destino (1)” (S02E21). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Quo Vadimus (2)”. Quo Vadimus, part two: two ABC seasons filed — where are we going, and the studio still doesn't have a quiet night.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A mystery man gives Dana the scoop on CSC's fate after the network is bought out by an upstart company with no need for a cable channel. Meanwhile, Casey prepares to look for new work without Dan, who is reunited with a familiar face from his past.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Quo Vadimus (2) sit in the Sports Night guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 45 of 45 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did Sports Night S02E22 air?
Quo Vadimus (2) aired 2000-05-16 and is listed at 30 minutes.
How much of it is there?
Two seasons, 1998–2000. Critical darling, modest ratings, almost no filler — a short cult rather than a long workplace novel.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sorkin walk-and-talk inside a sports-highlight studio: producers and anchors chasing ratings, ethics, and each other at full velocity. Peter Krause, Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume — competence as romance, panic as house style. Two dense ABC seasons, laugh-track fights included, then cancellation. West Wing rhythms with newsroom heartbreak, almost no filler.
Flash: September 22, 1998, ABC, a sports-highlight studio that moves at full velocity. Producers and anchors chase ratings, ethics, and each other with rapid-fire walk-and-talks. Aaron Sorkin packed newsroom heartbreak, screwball romance, and workplace poetry into two dense seasons through 2000. Peter Krause, Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume, Joshua Malina, Sabrina Lloyd made the studio a pressure chamber of competence and panic. It previewed West Wing rhythms with sports-media stakes.…
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