Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

　　由著名女笑匠Amy Poehler联手"The Office" 的 Michael Schur制作的喜剧《parks and recreation》已经昂首迈进了它的第五季。此片依然采用纪录片的拍摄手法，记录发生在虚拟的印第安纳州小镇Pawnee，公园与游憩部门里发生的 种种趣事。我们的Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler)，上季末她还是公园与游憩部门的副部长,如今已荣誉晋升为Pawnee的市议员了。这一季故事线有着多种悬念，比如我们的Leslie(Amy)和她的Nerd男朋友Ben Wyatt（Adam Scott）的远距离恋爱能坚持下去吗？Leslie史上最酷的前BOSS Ron Swanson（Nick Offerman）能迎来爱情的第“三”春吗？

　　故事设定在第二季事件的152年后。

　　第四季故事从2024年春季讲起，随着UBA-NBN合并的完成，新闻编辑室必须努力应对新发现的责任、隐藏的动机，以及两极分化的美国中那些难以捉摸的真相。在一个充斥着深度伪造、阴谋论和企业掩盖行为的世界里，你能相信谁？你又怎么知道什么才是真实的？