It's two decades since The West Wing premiered on US television, changing the face of political drama on TV, not to mention giving us the Walk-and-Talk, Big Block of Cheese Day and CJ lip-syncing to 'The Jackal'.

Now, original cast member Rob Lowe has told Digital Spy that he believes the entire available cast would reprise their roles if series creator Aaron Sorkin pitched them a revival.

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"I do think – well, I know – if Aaron Sorkin could figure out what it would look like, we would be in hair and make-up, back on the Oval Office set," Lowe said.

"The problem is that Aaron has never been able to figure out what a new iteration would be. Because I know we all know how special that show was, and every day we're blown away by how people's love for it just continues."



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Back in 2017, Sorkin did reveal his idea for a revival, with a new President caught in an emergency situation and calling on Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen) for advice. He even revealed his dream pick to play the new POTUS – This is Us and Black Panther actor Sterling K Brown.

West Wing fans will recall a scene in season three, episode 14, 'Hartsfield's Landing', where Bartlett tells Lowe's character Sam Seaborn that he believes he will be President one day.

We asked Lowe whether Sam could be Commander-in-Chief in this new iteration. "That would certainly be the version I would prefer!" he laughed. "Aaron did write it!"

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Set primarily in the West Wing of the White House and following the lives of President Bartlett and his staffers, The West Wing originally ran on NBC from September 1999 to May 2006.

Lowe originally departed the show midway through its fourth season, but later returned as a guest star for the closing episodes of the show's final year.

13 years after the last episode 'Tomorrow', Lowe did tell us that he fears the series might "look like science-fiction" given the current political climate in the United States.

"I mean, if you watch any episode of that show, it's so far removed from the culture that we find ourselves in now," he said. "It literally would be like watching 2001: A Space Odyssey."

Rob Lowe stars in Wild Bill, beginning on Wednesday (June 12) at 9pm on ITV.

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