The Newsroom (2012)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United States

Length

3 seasons, 25 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 740 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cable news anchor and his staff try to produce a principled news show while dealing with corporate pressure and personal conflicts. The series follows their struggles to report the news with integrity.

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What happens

The Newsroom is an American political drama television series created and principally written by Aaron Sorkin that premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012, and concluded on December 14, 2014, consisting of 25 episodes over three seasons. The series chronicles behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. It features an ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy who, together with his staff, sets out to put on a news show "in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements". Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston. Sorkin, who created the Emmy Award-winning political drama The West Wing, had reportedly been developing a cable-news-centered TV drama since 2009. After months of negotiations, premium cable network HBO ordered a pilot in January 2011 and then a full series in September that year. Sorkin did his research for the series by observing several real-world cable news programs first-hand. He served as executive producer, along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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