A potential reboot of The Newsroom briefly haunted our weary nation over the long weekend—but on The Late Late Show Monday, creator Aaron Sorkin said he has no plans to revive his old HBO series.

Last week, Newsroom star Olivia Munn told Entertainment Tonight that she and co-star Tom Sadoski, who played her on-screen flame in the series, had been speaking with Sorkin about possibly bringing The Newsroom back for a Trump-era reboot. “He’s very busy,” the actress said, “but we have very high hopes that it would be able to come together, hopefully.”

But on Monday night, when James Corden asked Sorkin to address the rumors on The Late Late Show, Sorkin denied he had any such intentions. “It feels like it might be a good time,” his host pressed. “We’ve never talked more about news.”

“I wish the show was on the air now,” Sorkin said. “I would love to be writing it now. But there are other things coming up. I have no plans to return [to it].”

As Corden jokingly noted, people do occasionally fib on late-night shows—but in this case, perhaps we can take Sorkin at his word. If the series were to return, however, it’s not very difficult to imagine some of the topics it might cover: the drama’s calling card was the preachy attitude it embodied while imagining how idealized journalists should have covered various news stories from the very recent past, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

Chances are that any new iteration of The Newsroom geared toward the Trump age would parachute viewers into a newsroom where a grouchy, principled male boss would shout at his team about the proper way to handle the rise of a racist, misogynistic presidential candidate—or the unhinged ramblings of a bigoted president. Or the killing of a young counterprotester at a far-right rally. All of which raises a vital question: does anyone really have the energy for that right now? Given the impassioned opposition that the mere mention of a possible Newsroom reboot already garnered on Twitter, the answer seems pretty clear—and now that Sorkin has put the kibosh on the idea, maybe we can go back to hoping for that Sterling K. Brown-led West Wing reboot instead.

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