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HBO has received first trailers for Aaron Sorkin’s new drama series The Newsroom and for the upcoming fifth season of Alan Ball’s True Blood. The Newsroom stars Jeff Daniels as the anchor of a primetime program on a cable news network whom the trailer portrays as outspoken, controversial and volatile. Great timing on the heels of the public firing by Current TV of Keith Olbermann who reportedly was one of the anchors Sorkin shadowed in his research for the show. The trailer also gives a glimpse at Newsroom‘s supporting cast, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and Thomas Sadoski, as well as Sam Waterston as the network’s president and Jane Fonda in the guest-starring role of the CEO of the network’s parent company. As for True Blood, this is a first look at what will be the last season of the vampire drama shepherded by its creator Ball who is stepping down as showrunner.
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Finally. A show from HBO that I’m actually excited about.
Two shows with Adina Porter. Very cool. HBO has good taste in actors.
I’ll watch anything Aaron Sorkin writes and wasn’t that impressed by the casting of Jeff Daniels but this trailer has me convinced: he’s a helluva an actor.
Newsroom looks good.
I used to care so much about True Blood but now…. Meh.
True Blood should be ending soon.
I was very interested in Newsroom when it had Marisa Tomei attached as the second lead. Once they switched to Emily Mortimer, it became a maybe-if-nothing-else-is-on show.
So Newsroom starts with a public meltdown by a major news anchor.
Kind of like…Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
And an ensemble drama behind the scenes of a daily news program, kind of like…Sports Night?
C’mon, Sorks, let’s get a new bag, dude.
Kind of like the movie NETWORK.
You forgot to mention the political overtones, kind if like…The West Wing.
Best part is, I loved all 3 of those shows and will happily tune in for Newsroom if it is half as good.
God, more of the same cliche-riddled faux-seriousness from Sorkin. He’s pretty good when he’s writing or re-writing someone else’s ideas but his own stuff always feels like something a 20 year old sociology major would come up with. “There are problems in the world. Here they are and now I must cure them”. It’s like, lets see a little subtly, my man. He was able to convey real human emotion in The Social Network, but as far as his own stuff its like, the ravings of some collegiate idealist. Studio 60, West Wing, Sports Night, and now this: more of the same contrived phoniness. HBO needs to stick with the gritty (See: The Wire) and ditch all the image conscious BS like this.
Olivia Munn = biracial, Dev Patel = Indian by way of UK, Adina Porter and Chris Chalk = African American. That’s four series regulars from what I gather.
Ya, nobody liked that West Wing, did they. Thankfully it got cancelled quickly and didn’t win any awards.
Newsroom looks great… but (and I say this as a white male) is it too much to ask for a little diversity in the cast? And no, one British/Indian actor does not diversity make. Hoping when taken as an entire pilot and not a 2 minute preview I’m proven wrong.
Sensational. This will be as much fun as Chayefsky’s “Network”
Give Sorkin and Daniels their Emmys right now no need to wait.
And for you regular broadcast network executives who don’t get it.
This is how you create an award winning and inspired new series.
You hire the best writer around and you don’t give him any notes.
You let him do what he wants and have confidence in his ability.
I will be watching The Newsman. Rudin, Sorkin, Daniels, me likey.
Newsroom… oh yes.
I’m keeping my HBO.
Wow!
Excited for the show. Surprisingly, I’m not feeling Jeff Daniels as the lead at all.
Looks really good. Jeff Daniels is the man.
newsroom looks great
Now I officially cannot wait for “Newsroom” to debut.
I am getting in the DeLorean and transporting myself with my 1.21 gigawatt flux capacitor to June 24th right fucking now.
Looks amazing. In a way that only Aaron Sorkin could deliver.
It looks strong, although I’d really rather see Sorkin work in features. SOCIAL NETWORK is one for the ages, a remarkable piece of work…
And this is 2012, does anybody really expect anything from an “Anchorman” anymore? An Anchorman is just an old man who sits in front of a TV camera and reads the newspaper to your Mom.
Exactly. That’s the problem: he’s creating a world that doesn’t exist any more so it’s not going to ring true.
JUST LIKE IN STUDIO 60: The premise is that a Friday night live comedy show in L.A. was groundbreaking and cutting-edge when it debuted in the 70s and now it needs new life. A riff on SNL, right? But then Matthew Perry references SNL when he mentions “Wayne’s World.” So we’re supposed to believe that there were TWO groundbreaking live late-night sketch comedy shows that debuted in the 70s?
Doesn’t make sense, so I (and apparently the rest of America) never got on board with it. Also, the protagonists were writers and we were asked to be sympathetic to their plight and be interested in their workplace, which is NEVER GOING TO WORK ON SCREEN. Only in Hollywood do they think that the general public gives a shit about how they do their jobs.
Ugh.
And has anyone seen Network lately? It hasn’t held up.
Um, I guess he’ll keep redoing Network until he gets it right. Another all-white (except for the token East Indian) show. I guess Sorkin doesn’t think blacks and hispanics are smart enough to mouth his dialogue.
So I guess Sorkin is back to making liberal wish fulfillment fairytales.
Jeff Daniels. The most under-appreciated actor in the business, seamless subtle yet nuanced film acting, always somehow inexplicably just right. I can’t think of a bad performance he’s ever given. And a really nice guy. Great cast, seems like perfect casting. Why can’t H.B.O. try network television without commercials? Network tries to do premium cable WITH commercials all of the time.
Let me guess…in a future episode the Jeff Daniels character is going to tell the audience in one week he will commit suicide on TV. The ratings will go up. He then ends up getting reality show to host.
Its so obvious Sorkin loves the movie “Network”. Too bad he does’t come close to the caliber of writing as Paddy Chayefsky, but he’s good at ripping him off.
Why call it “The Newsroom”, when there was already an excellent Canadian show of the same name created & written by Ken Finkleman?
I don’t care much about The Newsroom, but I’m excited with the return of True Blood. The trailer of The Newsroom seems fine. I’m not really a fan of West Wing, find it boring. I wish The Newsroom can offer more. But the True Blood will always be best of the summer in HBO.
I love Jeff Daniels. This is my cup of tea. Thanks HBO and Aaron Sorkin.
I really love HBO as does all my vast line of friends, co-workers in the medical field and very large Italian family. The main reason we all love it is because of the top show, True Blood. We all look forward to its return all year long… It’s the main reason HBO is number 1. Keep it up!!