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HBO’s The Newsroom’ Back In July For Season 2

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday April 12, 2013 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom

HBO confirmed today that the second season of The Newsroom will debut on July 14. The Aaron Sorkin created TV journalism series first premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012. HBO announced a second season pickup for The Newsroom on July 2, 2012. The show stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston. Terry Crews and Jane Fonda also had regular recurring roles in Season 1. The Newsroom drew in 2.3 million viewers for its August 26 Season 1 finale. That was a season high for The Newsroom. Sorkin executive produces the show along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul.

Related: Season 2 Spoilers For ‘The Newsroom’: PaleyFest 2013

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Eight Shows Earn TV Academy Honors

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 18, 2013 @ 10:38am PDTTags: Academy Of Telvision Arts & Sciences, Parenthood, Television Academy Honors, The Newsroom

NoHo Arts District, CA, March 18, 2013 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences today announced the honorees for the Sixth Annual Television Academy Honors. Celebrating “Television With A Conscience,” this year’s honorees are A Smile as Big as The Moon, D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List, Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide, Hunger Hits Home, The Newsroom, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss & Betrayal and Parenthood. The Awards, honoring television programs that aired January 1 – December 31, 2012, will be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on May 9th and hosted by Emmy® Award-winning actress Dana Delany.

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Season 2 Spoilers For Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Newsroom’: PaleyFest 2013

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 3, 2013 @ 10:19pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, PaleyFest 2013, The Newsroom

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Creator and exec producer Aaron Sorkin gave a rough layout of how the forthcoming second season of his polarizing HBO cable news drama The Newsroom will play out in terms of covering … Read More »

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Constance Zimmer To Recur On Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Series ‘The Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 8:21am PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Constance Zimmer, HBO, The Newsroom
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EXCLUSIVE: Constance Zimmer, who was a major presence on Entourage for most of its run, will recur on another HBO series, Aaron Sorkin’s drama The Newsroom. On the upcoming Season 2, which reflects on the … Read More »

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TV CASTINGS: Sally Pressman To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Joe, Joe & Jane’, Marcia Gay Harden Joins HBO’s ‘Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 2:50pm PSTTags: Joe & Joe & Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Sally Pressman, The Newsroom
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NBC has cast one of the title characters in its multi-camera comedy pilot Joe & Joe & Jane. Army Wives’ Sally Pressman has been cast as Jane in the project, from writers-executive producers Joe Port and … Read More »

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Rosemarie DeWitt Exits HBO’s ‘Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: Rosemarie DeWitt, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

Rosemarie DeWitt is leaving Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. DeWitt was originally cast in November for a recurring role on the series’ upcoming second season. “As the production schedule for season two of The Newsroom has … Read More »

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PaleyFest 2013 Set For March 1-15

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 9:39am PSTTags: Once Upon a Time, PaleyFest, Revolution, The Newsroom

HBO’s The Newsroom, NBC’s Revolution and ABC’s Once Upon A Time are the first announced participants for the 30th edition of The Paley Center For Media’s TV confab, which will run March 1-15, 2013 at the Saban … Read More »

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Grace Gummer To Recur On ‘The Newsroom’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 6:31pm PSTTags: HBO, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: News flash! HBO’s The Newsroom will tackle this year’s Presidential campaign in its upcoming second season. The latest addition to the cast of Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama is Grace Gummer, who has been tapped for a recurring role playing Hallie Shea, an embedded reporter covering the Mitt Romney campaign. This marks the second major TV role for Meryl Streep’s daughter Gummer who starred on Nickelodeon’s Gigantic. (She also guest starred in an episode of NBC’s Smash last season.) Gummer, whose older sister Mamie is the star of the new CW drama series Emily Owens, MD, is repped by CAA and Anonymous Content. Read More »

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Rosemarie DeWitt & Patton Oswalt Join Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Newsroom’ As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 1:09pm PSTTags: HBO, Patton Oswalt, Rosemarie DeWitt, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: HBO‘s The Newsroom has added Rosemarie DeWitt and Patton Oswalt to the cast heading into Season 2. Both will play recurring roles on the show, from creator/executive producer Aaron Sorkin and exec producer Scott Rudin. Newsroom chronicles the behind-the-scenes workings at the fictional Atlantis Cable News channel. DeWitt will play Rebecca Halliday, a litigator who’s been hired to defend Atlantis in a multimillion-dollar wrongful-termination suit. Oswalt is playing Jonas Pfeiffer, the new Vice President of Human Resources of ACN. Read More »

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HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ Hits Series High In Finale, ‘True Blood’ On Par

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 27, 2012 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: The Newsroom, True Blood
Nellie Andreeva

HBO’s True Blood and The Newsroom had a solid finish to their fifth and first seasons, respectively. True Blood drew 5 million viewers for its season finale at 9 PM, up a fraction from last week’s 4.93 million and down a hair from the fourth season closer last year, which … Read More »

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Aaron Sorkin Denies Firing ‘Newsroom’ Writing Staff And Other Rumors

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 4:32pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, TCA, TCA Wrap-Up, The Newsroom

Diane Haithman and Ray Richmond contribute to Deadline TV coverage.

2ND UPDATE: Deadline never picked up these media rumors. Today Aaron Sorkin characterized them as “unsourced and untrue” that he had fired nearly all of the writers on The Newsroom. The Newsroom FiringSorkin brought up the matter during HBO‘s presentation before anybody asked. Sorkin also said there is no truth to the second part of the rumor: That one of the writers, Corinne Kingsbury, is the only writer who was spared because she is Sorkin’s ex-girlfriend. The Daily repeated the rumors first, followed by The Hollywood Reporter. (No wonder The Daily is firing nearly 30% of its staff…) The stuff “got repeated all over the place,” Sorkin said.

“The writing staff was not fired, OK? Just seeing that in print is scaring the hell out of the writing staff. They are acting very strangely, they are coming to work very early … I want the old gang back. It is a fantastic group of men and women to come to work with.” Sorkin did cop to a couple of staffing changes he said were made at the end of the season but said that they were mostly promotions of two writers assistants to staff writers. (While he did not address that, there are reportedly 2 writers from Season 1 of Newsroom who are not coming back.) Sorkin also stressed that Kingsbury is not neither an ex- or current girlfriend: “She is on the staff for the same reason everyone else is on the staff.” He added: “I think she is at the beginning of a very exciting career and I would hate for this rumor impact her career or follow her around for the rest of her life,” Sorkin said of Kingsbury, adding jokingly: “That’s Kingsbury with a ‘g’.”

He added that he had no girlfriends, either previous or current, on the writing staff.

HBO at first canceled Sorkin’s TCA appearance. But Sorkin stressed afterward in the huddle that he would have none of that running and hiding from his critics. “I said, ‘No, reinstate it’,” Sorkin confirmed afterward.
“I wanted to talk to the press.”

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Aaron Sorkin On `The Newsroom’: NPR

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 5:02pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

Aaron Sorkin provided a glimpse into his thinking behind The Newsroom in a recent interview with NPR. Reaction to the show, starring Jeff Daniels as anchorman Will McAvoy, has been polarized, earning criticism of … Read More »

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HBO Renews Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ And ‘True Blood’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 12:39pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom, True Blood

Newsroom HBO RenewedHBO has ordered a second season of its Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom and a sixth season of its vampire drama True Blood. The renewal of Newsroom comes just over a week after … Read More »

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Sorkinisms (Aka Self-Plagiarizing): Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 11:37am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom

Hollywood has never concerned itself with self-plagiarizing. Ergo this video, which calls itself a “tribute to the work of Aaron Sorkin: the recycled dialogue, recurring phrases, and familiar plot lines. This is not intended as a critique but rather a playful excursion through Sorkin’s wonderful world of words…” (And … Read More »

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HBO’s Aaron Sorkin Drama ‘The Newsroom’ Draws 2.1M Viewers In Premiere

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 12:49pm PDTTags: HBO, Ratings, The Newsroom, True Blood

HBO‘s series premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels drew 2.1 million viewers at 10 PM last night. That was an OK performance for the show set at a cable news network, which ranks as one … Read More »

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HBO Makes ‘Newsroom’ Pilot Available To All, Showtime Puts ‘Weeds’ On Facebook

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Episodes, HBO, Showtime, The Newsroom, Weeds
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Newsroom HBO RatingsBeginning today, HBO is making the first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s new drama The Newsroom, which premiered on the pay cable network last night, available free to any viewers — including non-subscribers. It is going live … Read More »

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‘The Newsroom’ & ‘Political Animals’ Among Critics’ Choice TV Awards’ New Series Picks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 12, 2012 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Critics' Choice Television Awards, Political Animals, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

Along with TV programs from the past season, the Critics’ Choice Television Awards — an offshoot of the Critics’ Choice Awards for movies — recognizes new shows that premiere after June 1. This year’s five Most Exciting New Series honorees include … Read More »

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Ghost Of 2004 Hovers Over L.A. Screenings As Int’l Buyers Lament Lack Of Breakouts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 5:00am PDTTags: Arrow, Big Deals TV, LA Screenings, The Following, The Newsroom
Nellie Andreeva

LA Screenings Warner Bros TVAfter comedy stole the spotlight at the L.A. Screenings last year with breakout hits 2 Broke Girls and New Girl, dramas are returning to center stage during this week’s affair, where international buyers are gathering to sample the new crop of U.S. series. While several series are gathering buzz, there don’t seem to be big standouts at the screenings, which are still going on in Los Angeles. (at right: a photo from Warner Bros’ party Wednesday night.)  Maybe it was the recent series finales of Desperate Housewives and House fresh in his mind, but a Western European buyer spoke nostalgically of the 2004 L.A. Screenings that featured Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, House and Lost. “We haven’t had such a strong group of new shows since,” the buyer said.

Among the new shows gettings thumbs-up is Warner Bros’ superhero CW drama Arrow. “It was surprisingly good,” said Ruediger Boess, head of acquisitions for Germany’s ProSiebenSat1. “It’s darker and older than the standard CW shows, and its very well cast.” Two other dramas — HBO’s The Newsroom from Aaron Sorkin and Fox/Warner Bros’ The Following starring Kevin Bacon — have made an big impression too. The Newsroom, which screened two episodes Sunday that were introduced by Sorkin, received applause from the audience. Boess called the series, set behind the scenes at a cable news network show, “an outstanding masterpiece of television.” The issue with The Newsroom and the violent The Following, described by a buyer as “a darker Criminal Minds,” is that they can’t be shown on free TV networks, at least not before 10 PM. Read More »

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TV Teaser: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 29, 2012 @ 9:26pm PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, HBO, The Newsroom

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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