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HBO has released another trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s new series The Newsroom. Multigenerational cast includes Jane Fonda, Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Chris Chalk, Adina Porter and many others. Debuts June 24:
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“I mixed up Georgia, the state, with Georgia, the country.”
“You thought the Russians invaded Atlanta?”
“In retrospect, it seems farfetched.”
Character: a cute blonde female working in news even though she’s a complete dumbass.
What a total Corky Sherwood ripoff. Fire up the “Murphy Brown already did it!” engine.
Sometimes I get so frustrated with Deadline when a comment makes me giggle and I can’t show my appreciation by hitting the ‘like’ button.
Simple truth is, Sorkin writes a killer show.
He knows dialogue.
Political leanings aside, he makes engaging TV.
Looking forward to this.
Dialogue alone will not make a show great. You need the actors to pull it off. We all know about Sam Waterston, Jeff Bridges and Emily Mortimer. The rest are Broadway actors that no one has heard of mostly. I still don’t know why the cast Olivia Munn.
EXPLAIN Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
Wow, this not only looks kinda boring but surprisingly dated. A show about how TV news needs to become more relevant? Pardon the pun, but this feels like old news.
Maybe Sorkin think he’s doing ‘Network’?
And didn’t he sort of already do this show? It was called ‘Sports Night.’
My thoughts exactly. My first immediate reaction when watching the trailer was Network. He did thank Paddy for the Oscar after all…
I agree. Good night and good luck with that. It will be some great challenge to elevate the premise and setup to remarkable, given that many people no longer watch or have any respect for tv news. The daily missteps of actual tv news people — bogus editing, etc., will be hard to top. Add to that “journalists” or really content writers, don’t seem to ever leave the internet to actually research anything. no wonder Jon Stewart is the current Walter Cronkite.
You just explained the entire purpose of why the show is relevant and necessary in today’s world. Journalism is broken, the protagonist sees and understands this and attempts to overcome the system and it’s inherent problems/conflicts.
Dated? When the incidents depicted here are clearly based on something that happened last year? Are we that jaded? I just hope Jeff Daniels’ Will McAvoy doesn’t go out the way his real life counterpart did.
That last bit in the control room was very Matthew Albie.
And that opening where Jeff Daniels apologizes, on air, for how bad the news is feels very Judd Hirsch. Who was, of course, channeling Peter Finch. Still, no one writes dialogue better than Sorkin and his shows are always a lot of fun. Will wait to see it before passing any kind of judgement. As if Sorkin cares.
Too true!!
That was taken from an old IBM commercial.
I can’t wait to watch this it’s going to be great because it’s smart and funny. Props to HBO for this and Veep they are on a roll. You broadcast network execs are dinosaurs and you will all soon go the way of Terra Nova. Television is only good now because of the cable networks. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Newsroom, Veep. Do you see the difference between good shows and shitty shows? Probably not which is why you continue to make the same crap.
Couple thoughts: God, has Jeff Daniels aged! The scripts will be amazing and the cast will deliver but HBO better not count on True Blood-size ratings. As for the comment above about ripping off the Corky Sherwood character, I couldn’t disagree more. I think all Aaron Sorkin did was watch a few minutes of the blonde airheads on KTLA to get his juices flowing.
It looks like an immense waste of an awful lot of talent.
Oh and how can you satirize cable news when it’s a joke that everybody is already in on.
How much better than the Daily Show/Colbert Report can it be?
Looks great!
Aaron Sorkin adds clever insights and brilliant, witty dialogue to any project he tackles. But his weakness is in picking the projects to do. The West Wing and The Social Network were home runs because the subject matter was fascinating to both Sorkin and everyone else. But Newsroom, along with Studio 60 on Sunset (or whatever), may suffer from a premise that’s way too insidery for normal viewers to care about. With Studio 60, the major conflict in each episode was basically “will we get the show on the air against all these far-fetched obstacles put before us?” What seemed really important to the characters just doesn’t seem important to anyone else. The same may be true about Newsroom — the problems may seem too white-collar and abstract for viewers to commit. Sorkin is the best writer for the “FirstWorldPains” generation.
One and done. HBO has the oddest scheduling. Why is this show after True Blood? I doubt fans of True Blood will watch this show. The show would do better after Treme or Boardwalk Empire.
The Georgia thing was terrible, not least because I can’t believe any character Allison Pill played would say/do something that dumb.
This show looks amazing. Aaron Sorkin on HBO? How can that not be a winner. My real question is not whether this show will be successful, but rather once it is, will it spark a network to decide that an actual balanced news program that reports actual news could be successful. Every day I check FoxNews, CNN and MSNBC and all I ever see are stories either ripping the political party that leans the other way than the network, or stories about horrible things that people do. It’s sad. Seems to me there are other things going on other than child abuse, rapes, kidnappings, racist incidents, etc. It’s time someone starts reporting the good in this country and not just the bad.
Looking forward to a really intelligent show. And Sorkin is going to deliver.
Love Mad Men — it just keeps getting better and better — but ‘The Newsroom’ is going to kill!