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UPDATED: Has Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series, known as More As This Story Develops gotten an official title? That’s according to TV Newser, which says the show will be titled Newsroom. That indeed is the top choice for a title but it has not been cleared, so it is not clear if it will work. The project stars Jeff Daniels as Will McCallister, anchor of a primetime program on cable news network UBS; Emily Mortimer as his new executive producer; Alison Pill, John Gallagher, Jr., Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and Thomas Sadoski as newsroom staffers; and Sam Waterston as UBS News president Charlie Skinner. The West Wing creator Sorkin, an Oscar winner for his The Social Network screenplay, executive produces the new series with Scott Rudin.
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Instead of watching this, people would probably be better off just getting the DVD’s of the sublime Canadian series The Newsroom.
Love Sorkin and wish this well but you’re absolutely right. There’s only one Newsroom and that’s Kenny Finkleman’s. Let’s find another title fellas…!
Might get even fewer viewers than the real Keith Olbermann.
Somewhere up there Paddy Chayefsky is smiling down on them. CAN. NOT. WAIT.
YES PLEASE
Actually (though no doubt Sorkin doesn’t care) Dan Rather got it WRONG–he based his anti-Bush “60 Minutes 2″ piece on documents that proved to be forged (and rather badly). That’s why poor Dan is “no longer on television.”
The pilot script is phenomenal. I’m extremely excited for this.
Gardner Stern already did this 10 years ago with “Breaking News” for Bravo.
Yes! Glad someone else remembers that show! Great casting, writing. Too bad it never took off!
The pilot ep is amazingly written, can’t wait to see it on the screen.
One of the best scripts I’ve ever read.
Full stop.
So, they want to call the show Newsroom? What about the CBC series of the same name that sounds very much like Sorkin’s show?
the sublime Canadian series…didn’t have Aaron Sorkin. Pilot is amazing.
After reading that dialogue they should just call it Lean Forward.
I am so freaking excited!!!! I am still reeling from NBC canceling Studio 60!
This show had me from the jump.
But can someone please tell me why you would go from the intriguing, creative, and interesting “More As This Story Develops” to the uninspired, blunt, unoriginal, and boring “Newsroom?”
So Sorkin is getting back in the daily/weekly grind of series work? Uh-huh. Here’s hoping that the actors have interesting lives, because our boy Aaron will be borrowing “storylines” from his co-workers soon enough….
one of these things is not like the other: Gardner Stern, Aaron Sorkin.
Paddy Chayefsky is either smiling or spinning and saying, “UBS? Why didn’t you come up with your own letters instead of ripping-off “Network.” Homage my ass!
Reminds me of Sports Night: Sorkin doing a sports newsroom is just like Sorkin doing a news oriented newsroom.
Sports night was genius, so I can’t wait for this.
The CBC show had a wonderful nastiness about it — all these supposedly principled professionals (and Canadian, to boot) endlessly maneuvering for the pettiest of outcomes. Love Sorkin but will he have the nerve to make his protagonist as venal a douche as George Findlay?
As long as Sorkin takes a biting and bloodied stab at FOX NEWS in at least one episode…I’m extremely grateful for him getting back on TV. Can you actually imagine Paddy C being around in these times and watching what’s happening, let alone going all out savage? More so that what he ever predicted. Go Aaron, go. Slaughter the sacred.
The pilot is a knock out. Sorkin fans will cream themselves.
I’m sure the pilot IS amazing. Reminds me of another amazing pilot by Sorkin called Studio 60.
Remember what happened to that?
Let’s keep the hyperbole to a minimum till the proof beyond the pilot comes…
NETWORK is one of my favorite films of all time (scary how much is more relevant today than ever before) and I’ve always said that if it was ever to be remade – Aaron Sorkin should be the guy to write it!
For that very reason, this show has all the workings of becoming a TV masterpiece (very much like WEST WING was), I truly hope they knock it out of the park!!!