Hollywood appears to be of mixed opinion on the wisdom of returning to the East Coast to shoot exterior scenes. "We're absolutely coming back," West Wing producer Llewellyn Wells told the New York Post. "I went (to Washington) for two days last week as an advance trip to make sure that everything felt comfortable and it did, it felt very good. The general population seemed to be going about its business and the city and federal agencies that we deal with were very anxious for us to come." So cast and crew will be flying commercial airliners back to the nation's capital in the middle of November. But not the cast and crew of "Providence." "There was no way," said executive producer John Macius. "It was a gut management decision." And there was a "not yet" from a spokeswoman for Steven Bochco, executive producer of "NYPD Blue" and "Philly": "We still have actors that the network would like to get to New York and they are not yet totally comfortable flying on a commercial jet, but they will."