Was Dulé Hill appearing so briefly in The West Wing because he was co-starring in Psych?
Sometime around the later years of The West Wing (season 4? 5?), Dulé Hill (Charlie Young) tends to only appear for one brief scene in most episodes. (Fans complained about it, e.g. in Television Without Pity.) Was this because Dulé Hill was co-starring as Burton Guster in Psych? Was Hill, maybe, flying down from Vancouver (where Psych was filmed) to L.A. (where The West Wing was filmed) once a month or so to record a month-or-so's worth of scenes?
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No, this is not why.
Psych premiered in July 2006, the same year The West Wing's seventh and final season aired.
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When did Dule Hill join West Wing?
In 1999, Hill was cast on The West Wing as Charlie Young, the personal aide to President Josiah Bartlet, who was played by Martin Sheen. During the sixth season of the series, Charlie became a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff.How long was Dule Hill on West Wing?
Hill starred as Charlie for six seasons before he chose to leave the show at the beginning of the seventh season (September 2005) to star in the pilot for the new television show Psych for the USA Network, which premiered July 7, 2006.What shows has Dule Hill been in?
Most recently, Hill appeared in HBO Max's Locked Down. Next, he'll appear in Hypnotic and a reboot of The Wonder Years. Also, the actor will reprise his title role in Psych 3: This Is Gus.Udah Paling Hapal Banget Dul Sama Lagu Bapaknya
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I think it had a lot to do with the departure of Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin wrote the first four seasons, then left the show after which it was written by other people. The end of season 4 is when the President's daughter Zoey gets kidnapped, and Charlie was a big character up to that point since he had the unrequited love for her.
So I'd say a few episodes into season 5 is when Charlie started to appear less and less. It's also, in my opinion, when the quality of the show took a nosedive. Season 7 is excellent but it's basically a different show, it's a show about a presidential election campaign with eerie parallels to 2008's real life election.
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