This Just In: The Newsroom and The Comeback Premiere on HBO
With the departure of “Boardwalk Empire” and Nucky Thompson’s brutal passage into the iconography of a television character for the ages, Sunday nights are about to get very interesting again on HBO. The pay cabler is about to launch the third and final season of its drama “The Newsroom,” followed by the comedy comeback of “The Comeback,” which ran for one season nearly ten years ago. The first episodes of both shows were premiered in...
The TV Academy Honors Television’s Most Enlightening and Inspirational Programs
Some called the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner a “nerd prom,’ and that term also came to mind–in a completely endearing way– at the 6th Annual Television Academy Honors, held May 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Known for presenting the Emmy Awards, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences decided in 2008 to move forward with a different sort of accolade that honors programs that inform, illuminate,...
Sorkin, Daniels Go To Bat For The Newsroom
Flanked by series star Jeff Daniels and executive producer Alan Poul, Aaron Sorkin was in the hot seat as he took questions about “The Newsroom” during a spirited session at the Television Critics Association summer press tour from some of the same people who have criticized the show as inauthentic and preachy. The HBO drama, which premiered in June to solid ratings—maintaining about 2 million viewers per episode–and has...
The Newsroom: Sorkin’s Latest Drama Goes Behind the Headlines
After an extremely successful film awards season – he won the Oscar for writing “Social Network” and co-wrote another kudo contender, “Moneyball”– Aaron Sorkin back on television, this time on HBO. No stranger to shows set in the world of television itself (“Sports Night,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”) Sorkin’s newest world revolves around “The Newsroom,” set in and around a...
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