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...
Emmy Wrap-Up: The Surprises, The Show, The Parties, The Perks
Who would’ve predicted that Emmy favorite Alec Baldwin would remove himself from the proceedings, or that Charlie Sheen would use the occasion of the 63rd Primetime Emmy awards to try to redeem himself in front of his former bosses– and the industry at large? Or that the lead actor from the canceled drama “Friday Night Lights” would score a touchdown by stealing the statuette from front-runners Jon Hamm and Steve...
The Good Wife, Men of a Certain Age and Justified Score New Gold
Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now. The co-executive producer and costar of TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes awarded in New York at the 70th annual Peabody Awards presentation. Just days earlier, at the technically challenged TNT/TBS upfront held at the Hammerstein Ballroom, Romano was one of the network’s talent– along with...
Gangster Truce Called on the Boardwalk
In HBO’s recently concluded first season of “Boardwalk Empire,” the characters and the milieu are haunting, an intermingled stew of real and fictional political and criminal personages– and innocents caught in their web– from a bygone era that still resonate today. If you didn’t know any differently, you could be excused for thinking that what was the second-to-last episode was the season finale, culminating as it did...
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