Life after West Wing

Jimmy Smits will return to ABC to star in his own series and produce other shows after his term as a congressman on NBC's The West Wing is over.

Smits starred in the ABC police drama NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1998.

Earlier, NBC said Smits would play a three-term congressman from Houston with "presidential aspirations" on The West Wing, which returns for its sixth season in the United States on October 20.