The Newsroom
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'The Newsroom' Premiere Review and Recap: Less Talk as This Story Develops
Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" might be a consistently good show if it cuts the blather and gets to the news.
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THE NEWSROOM RECAP 1: WE JUST DECIDED TO
HBO’s been trying to sell "The Newsroom" to audiences on the strength of its opening scene, when Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), a bland and personable cable news anchor trapped in his own private hell somewhere between a shout-y liberal and a conservative, snaps and delivers a rant about American great...
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Aaron Sorkin Moves 'The Newsroom' To Fairyland
Aaron Sorkin has always had a huge, corn-fed Capraesque streak, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. Even in his own day, Capra’s Americana was more willful than trenchant, but at least it suited its Greatest Generation era. Sorkin’s high-blown patriotic speeches, tran...
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LAFF Q&A: 'The Newsroom' Star Alison Pill Talks Woody Allen, Aaron Sorkin and the Thing About Hollywood That She Finds 'Disgusting'
This week, the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival showcases Alison Pill in two of the highest-profile projects in the program: Woody Allen’s opening-night feature “To Rome With Love” and Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series “The Newsroom,” the pilot of which will screen Frid...
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'The Newsroom' is Prime Aaron Sorkin, Which is a Good and Bad Thing
Aaron Sorkin hasn't changed -- TV has changed. Watching the first few episodes of "The Newsroom," which premieres on HBO this Sunday, June 24th at 10pm, it's striking how consistent the series is with what Sorkin's done before on "Sports Night," "The West Wing&qu...
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Watch: A New 'Newsroom' Trailer Offers More of Aaron Sorkin's Upcoming Series
"I'm beginning this newscast by apologizing to the American people for the failure of this program during the time I've been in charge of it. The reason we failed isn't a mystery -- we took a dive for the ratings. I'm quitting the circus. Switching teams. I'm going with...
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Watch: Trailering HBO's 'The Newsroom,' Aaron Sorkin's (Triumphant?) Return to TV
Aaron Sorkin's been nominated for one Oscar ("Moneyball") and won another ("The Social Network") in the years since the demise of the misfire that was "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." And now here's "The Newsroom," which premieres June 24th on HBO, mar...
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