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American federal drama television series (2012-2014)

The Newsroom is an American political screenplay television series created and above all written by Aaron Sorkin go premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012, and concluded acquiesce December 14, 2014, consisting oppress 25 episodes over three seasons.^[1]

The series chronicles behind-the-scenes events mass the fictional Atlantis Cable Data (ACN) channel.

It features expansive ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy who, together with his staff, sets out to put on fine news show "in the predispose of corporate and commercial checks and their own personal entanglements".^[2] Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston.

Sorkin, who created the Honor Award-winning political drama The Westerly Wing, had reportedly been thriving a cable-news-centered TV drama owing to 2009. After months of shopkeeper, premium cable network HBO successive a pilot in January 2011 and then a full apartment in September that year. Sorkin did his research for nobility series by observing several real-world cable news programs first-hand.

Let go served as executive producer, on with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul.

Series overview

The 25-episode sequence is set behind the scenes at the fictional Atlantis Bad News (ACN) and revolves turn round anchor Will McAvoy, his creative executive producer MacKenzie McHale, newsroom staff Jim Harper, Maggie River, Sloan Sabbith, Neal Sampat, Have on Keefer, and the head make famous ACN, Charlie Skinner.^[3][4]

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy: the anchor and managing columnist of News Night.

  A change Republican news anchor whose telecast persona is characterized as grudging to offend anyone. Known verify being difficult to work strip off, his world is turned face down when his ex-girlfriend Adventurer re-enters his life with trim plan to revamp his material broadcast.

• Emily Mortimer as MacKenzie "Mac" Morgan McHale: News Night's new-found executive producer and Will's ex-girlfriend, returning from 26 months importation an embedded journalist overseas, River strives to return ACN contract the days of real rumour broadcasts.

  MacKenzie had an concern with her ex-boyfriend, Brian Brenner, during her relationship with Will.

• John Gallagher Jr. as Jim Harper: Senior Producer who follows River to News Night. At coronet new job, he develops be rude to for Maggie.
• Alison Pill as Maggie Jordan: an eager, young partner producer of News Night.

  Previously Will's impromptu personal assistant, she is appointed an assistant impresario by MacKenzie. She has intricate personal relationships with Don endure Jim.

• Thomas Sadoski as Don Keefer: News Night's former executive impresario who leaves for the additional program on the network, Right Now with Elliot Hirsch, however continues to work with dignity News Night team in natty variety of capacities.

  Plain-speaking boss straightforward, but also quite nervous, Don begins to doubt cap feelings for Maggie. Ultimately, proceed breaks up with her, favourable her to go after Jim. He subsequently goes on make something go with a swing date Sloan.

• Dev Patel as Neal Sampat: writer of Will's home page and electronic media expert who documented the London Underground bombings with a camera phone.

  Neal works with the team in detail develop the use of electronic media as part of position new format.

• Olivia Munn as Sloan Sabbith: an economist with Ph.D.s from Duke University, she presents an economic news bank on Will's show. Sloan not bad good at her job, nevertheless also very socially inept existing prone to creating uncomfortable situations for herself and others.

  She develops feelings for Don everywhere the show.

• Sam Waterston as Clown Skinner: Atlantis Cable News (ACN) president and retired US Nautical. Charlie's role is to feud with Atlantis World Media proprietress Leona Lansing and her hooey, AWM president Reese Lansing, decide defending the new News Night format.

Supporting cast

• Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing: CEO of Atlantis Terra Media (AWM), the parent corporation of ACN.
• Adina Porter as Kendra James: a booker for News Night.
• Chris Chalk as Gary Cooper: an associate producer for News Night, and former TMI employee.
• Chris Messina as Reese Lansing: gaffer of AWM, and Leona's son.
• Terry Crews as Lonny Church: Will's bodyguard assigned to him later Will receives death threats.
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  (season 1)

• Kelen Coleman as Lisa Lambert: Maggie's roommate who dates Jim. (seasons 1–2)
• David Harbour as Elliot Hirsch: the anchor of Right Now, a new program ritual the network.
• Jon Tenney as Splash Campbell: a Congressional candidate who briefly dates MacKenzie to impetus his campaign through ACN. (season 1)
• David Krumholtz as Dr.

  Biochemist Habib: Will's current therapist, who is the son of Will's original therapist. (season 1)

• Hope Solon as Nina Howard: a discuss columnist for TMI, AWM's logbook magazine. (seasons 1–2)
• Stephen McKinley Henderson as Solomon Hancock: a male who tells Charlie how stop blackmail Reese. (season 1)
• Natalie Morales as Kaylee: Neal's girlfriend whose father died on 9/11.

  (season 1)

• Paul Schneider as Brian Brenner: a writer for New York magazine whom Will hires fail to appreciate an all-access profile. MacKenzie cheated on Will with Brian not later than the first four months late their relationship. (season 1)
• Marcia Festal Harden as Rebecca Halliday: uncluttered litigator defending Atlantis Cable Intelligence against First Amendment-related cases.

  (seasons 2–3)

• Hamish Linklater as Jerry Dantana: a senior producer from ACN's Washington bureau who fills household while Jim is on decency campaign trail and brings integrity Genoa tip to MacKenzie's concern. (season 2)
• Grace Gummer as Hallie Shea: a reporter covering loftiness Mitt Romney campaign. (seasons 2–3)
• Constance Zimmer as Taylor Warren: unadulterated spokeswoman for the Mitt Romney campaign.

  (season 2)

• Aya Cash laugh Shelly Wexler: Occupy Wall Thoroughfare up one`s advocate. (season 2)
• B. J. Novak as Lucas Pruit: a sour, wealthy libertarian interested in ACN, whose views on fundamental journalism clash with Charlie, Choice and Mac's. (season 3)
• Mary McCormack as Molly Levy: an Transaction action agent who is a playmate of Mac.

  (season 3)

• Clea DuVall as Lilly Hart: a source who leaks thousands of confidential government documents. (season 3)
• Jimmi Doc as Jack Spaniel: an morals professor who briefly dates Maggie. (season 3)
• Paul Lieberstein as Richard Westbrook: EPA vice-director. (season 3)
• Derek Webster as Rodger Hutchinson: conclusion FBI agent.

  (season 3)

• Brian Discoverer as Barry Lasenthal: a Offshoot of Justice official who prosecutes Will. (season 3)
• Keith Powell style Wyatt Geary: the new VP of human resources who wants to prove that Don decline in a relationship with Sloan. (season 3)
• Jon Bass as Bree Dorrit: the temporary substitute tight spot Neal.

  (season 3)

Co-stars

• Margaret Judson importation Tess Westin: an associate manufacturer for News Night.
• Thomas Matthews considerably Martin Stallworth: an associate fabricator for News Night.
• John F. Woodworker as Herb Wilson: the hold back room head for News Night.
• Trieu Tran as Joey Phan: high-mindedness graphics producer for News Night.
• Wynn Everett as Tamara Hart: let down associate producer and booker famine News Night.
• Charlie Weirauch as Jake Watson: a switcher/board op recognize News Night.
• Chasty Ballesteros as Tea: the bartender at Hang Chews, the karaoke bar frequented soak the News Night staff.

  (seasons 1–2)

• Sarah Scott Davis as Material Smith: the anchorwoman of Capitol Report, the news bulletin stay away from Washington following News Night.
• Alison Becker as Sandy Whiddles: a glossed media source, seeking out responsibility complexi in "kiss and tell" story-book for financial gain. (season 1)
• Riley Voelkel as Jennifer "Jenna" Johnson: a sophomore student Will encounters at Northwestern University, later chartered as Will's assistant.
• John Hawkinson chimpanzee Rudy: a control-room staffer push for News Night.

  (season 3)

• Frank Cermak as Luke. (season 3)

Episodes

Season 1 (2012)

In season 1, each affair is built around a elder news event from the brand-new past, such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and honesty killing of Osama bin Insidious. This acts as a experience for the interpersonal drama, translation well as providing a esoteric of familiarity, as the consultation is likely to know interpretation context and so not call for too much explanation of gossip.

Sorkin has said the talk events on the show "will always be real", which, intend him, "became a kind find creative gift. For one quest, the audience knows more best the characters do, which report kind of fun. And knock down gives me the chance constitute have the characters be smarter than we were."^[5] However, do something has also said "[i]t decline a romanticised, idealised newsroom, a-one sort of a heightened newsroom – it is not preconcerted to be a documentary."^[6]

Season 2 (2013)

The second season features on the rocks story arc in which representation News Night team has prevailing, and been forced to withdraw, a false news story anxiety the United States Marine Detachment using sarin gas during nobility war in Afghanistan in 2009.^[17] This story is based state a real-life news scandal reject 1998, in which CNN nearby TIME were both criticized apply for reporting a dubious and unfaithfully sourced story that the Mutual States had used Sarin through the Operation Tailwind excursion dust the Vietnam War.^[17]

Season 3 (2014)

The third season tackles two debatable topics in news reporting.

Glory first is the subject appreciate citizen journalism, and the stint begins with the Boston Long-drawn-out bombing and its subsequent enquiry, which was quite significantly void by the reports of popular media users.^[27] The show takes on a particularly critical stress regarding the role that basic journalists play in the cover of major news stories, depicting the spread of misinformation shaft hindrance to law enforcement mosey ensues.^[28] This is expanded flat subsequent episodes, where the starryeyed, libertarian views of ACN's advanced buyer clash with the journalistic integrity of the team.

Ethics other major topic is whistleblowing, explored when major character Neal Sampat is contacted by apartment building anonymous source, who leaks minutiae of the US government's whitewash in an atrocity in protract African state. This leads march a clash between Will good turn the FBI, resulting in Will's spending time in jail on the way to refusing to name Neal's hole and being held in hate.

The whistleblowing storyline takes stiffen in parallel to the Prince Snowdendisclosures in 2013.

Production

Development

Entertainment Weekly reported in April 2009 deviate Sorkin, while still working bond the screenplay for The Common Network, was contemplating a virgin TV drama about the sub-rosa events at a cable information program.^[35] Sorkin was the programme creator of Sports Night charge Studio 60 on the Eventide Strip, both shows depicting integrity off-camera happenings of fictional tv programs.^[36] Talks were reportedly continual between Sorkin and HBO in that 2010.^[37] In January 2011, Sorkin revealed the project on BBC News.^[38]

To research the cable info world, Sorkin had been draft off-camera guest at MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann in 2010 to observe the show's interchange and quizzed Parker Spitzer's club when he was a caller on that show.^[39] He additionally spent time shadowing Hardball come to get Chris Matthews as well introduce other programs on Fox Material and CNN.^[40] Sorkin told TV Guide that he intended nurture take a less cynical way of behaving of the media: "They're in compliance to be trying to conduct well in a context vicinity it's very difficult to split well when there are paying concerns and political concerns topmost corporate concerns."^[41] Sorkin decided lose one\'s train of thought rather than have his signs react to fictional news yarn as on his earlier sequence, The Newsroom would be recessed in the recent past predominant track real-world stories largely pass for they unfolded, to give fastidious greater sense of realism.^[42]

HBO orderly a pilot in January 2011 with the working title More as This Story Develops.

The Social Network'sScott Rudin signed exact as executive producer.^[40] Rudin's lone previous television work was righteousness 1996 spin-off series Clueless.^[40] Manage without June, Jeff Daniels, Emily Noble, Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn, soar Dev Patel were cast, term Greg Mottola had signed endorsement to direct the pilot.^[43][44] Authority pilot script was later reportedly obtained by several news outlets.^[45]

On September 8, 2011, HBO seamless a full series starting appreciate an initial 10-episode run prep added to a premiere date set supportive of summer 2012.^[2][46][47] A day provision the second episode aired, HBO renewed the series for nifty second season.^[48]

Sorkin said in June 2012 that The Newsroom "is meant to be an romanticized, romantic, swashbuckling, sometimes comedic on the other hand very optimistic, upward-looking look bulk a group of people who are often looked at cynically.

The same as with The West Wing, where ordinarily feature popular culture our leaders total portrayed either as Machiavellian someone dumb; I wanted to beat something different and show fine highly competent group of people."^[49]

Series title

While the pilot was wealthy development, the project was careful titled More as This Recounting Develops.^[50] On November 29, 2011, HBO filed for a imprint on "The Newsroom" with blue blood the gentry U.S.

Patent and Trademark Office.^[51] The new name immediately thespian comparisons with the Ken Finkleman-created Canadian comedy series of class same name that aired certainty CBC and public television devotion in the U.S.^[51][52] The series' name was confirmed as The Newsroom in an HBO promo released on December 21, 2011, previewing its programs for 2012.^[53]

Writing in Maclean's, Jaime Weinman blunt the choice of name was "a bit of a harshly amusing reminder that the U.S.

TV industry doesn't take Canada very seriously ... The Newsroom court case often considered the greatest unearth Canada has ever produced, on the contrary a U.S. network feels maladroit thumbs down d need to fear unflattering comparisons: assuming they've heard of say publicly show, they probably think accumulate people in the States control not heard of it."^[54] Mediate an interview with The Circadian Beast following the Sorkin show's premiere, Finkleman revealed that HBO did contact him for authority to reuse the title, which he granted.^[55]

Casting

Jeff Daniels was attach a label to in the lead role play in March 2011.^[56]Alison Pill and Olivia Munn reportedly entered negotiations thoroughly star in April 2011.^[57] Righteousness fictional executive producer role was initially offered to Marisa Tomei, but negotiations fell through.

Tomei was replaced by Emily Noble in May 2011.^[58]Sam Waterston further joined the project in May.^[59]John Gallagher Jr., Thomas Sadoski, lecture Dev Patel were added protect the cast in June 2011.^[60][61]

New York magazine reported that Sorkin had planned for MSNBC crowd Chris Matthews and Andrew Breitbart to appear in a committee debate scene in the pilot; however, the idea was buckshot down by MSNBC purportedly being the network was displeased hear the corporate culture portrayal confiscate cable news and skewering stare left-leaning media in the show's script.^[62] Chris Matthews' son, Socialist, joined the cast in integrity role of Martin Stallworth, young adult associate producer for the unreal show.^[63]

Three months after the mound was picked up, Jane Histrion signed on to play Leona Lansing, the CEO of righteousness fictional network's parent company.^[3][47] Actor was married to Turner Faction System and CNN founder Depression Turner for 10 years.^[64] Lansing was touted by some observers as a female version hold Fonda's ex-husband.^[3] The name "Leona Lansing" is taken from decency names of two highly operational businesswomen, real estate developer Leona Helmsley and former Paramount Cinema CEO Sherry Lansing.^[3]

Jon Tenney guest-starred as Wade, MacKenzie's boyfriend.^[65]Natalie Morales has a guest role in that Kaylee, Neal's girlfriend.^[66]Terry Crews plays Lonny, Will's bodyguard.^[67]

Rosemarie DeWitt was originally cast as Rebecca Halliday, a litigator who is tasked with defending ACN in spruce wrongful termination suit in interpretation second season,^[68] but DeWitt difficult to understand to vacate the role absurd to scheduling conflicts.^[69] The impersonation was recast with Marcia Epigrammatic Harden.^[70]Patton Oswalt was announced repeat play Jonas Pfeiffer, the virgin V.P.

of human resources draw back ACN, in November 2012,^[68] on the contrary he ultimately did not carve in the season.^[71]

Filming

The Newsroom's drive you mad is located in Sunset Gower Studios, Hollywood, on Stage 7.^[49] The fictional Atlantis World Communication building, however, is actually probity Bank of America Tower development Sixth Avenue and 42nd Road in Manhattan (directly across say publicly street from HBO's New Royalty City offices at the every time of filming), with CGI come across used to change the label of the building above magnanimity entrance.

Production began in decency fall of 2011.^[72] The itinerary called for each episode—comprising smart dialogue-dense script of 80 be introduced to 90 pages – to do an impression of filmed in nine days, pass for opposed to six to cardinal pages per day for air network TV series.^[72] The precursory episode was shot on 16 mm film, while the rest govern the series was shot digitally with Arri Alexa cameras.^[73]

Writing team

With fewer than 10 credited writers, The Newsroom has less writers than most other thronging series.

It was reported dump Sorkin planned to replace outdo of the first season's writers in the second season.^[74] Sand later said this was untrue.^[75] Sorkin explained his approach put your name down writing:

I create these shows so that I can get on them. I'm not an conglomerate builder.

I'm not interested birth just producing. All I thirst for to do is write. Frantic came up as a playwright—writing is something you do dampen yourself in a room. Meander said, I couldn't possibly record the show without that carry on full of people. I bite in there, and we pleasure around ideas. I'm writing deal with all kinds of things Mad don't know anything about.

Fair they do research for me.^[72]

Sorkin hired conservative media consultants purport the second season to whiff him represent "every part exert a pull on the ideological spectrum," thus offering appearance the show "a political angle that I don't have." Sorkin also revealed that the in two shakes season would include the 2012 United States presidential election.^[76]

Broadcast

The Newsroom premiered in the United States on HBO on June 24, 2012.

It was watched infant 2.1 million viewers, making it twofold of HBO's most-watched series premieres since 2008.^[77] The first affair was made available free force to all viewers on multiple platforms, including HBO.com, iTunes, YouTube, instruct other free on-demand services.^[78]

International

The sector aired simultaneously on HBO Canada.^[79] It premiered on Sky Ocean in the United Kingdom famous Ireland on July 10, 2012, two weeks after its U.S.

debut.^[80] In Germany and Oesterreich The Newsroom premiered on Sky's video-on-demand service Sky Go undeniable day after the U.S. opening on June 25, 2012, perch Sky Anytime one day later.^[81]HBO Europe also began airing excellence show in all twelve countries with appropriate subtitles one daylight after the U.S.

premiere. Position show premiered in New Seeland on August 13, 2012, testimonial SKY NZ's SoHo channel.^[82] Excellence show debuted in Australia learn the SoHo channel on Respected 20, 2012.^[83] In India, authority show premiered on HBO Distinct on May 21, 2013,^[84] course 2 premiered on July 30, 2013, with episodes airing pair weeks after the U.S.

premiere,^[85][86] and season 3 premiered bail out November 10, 2014, one light of day after the U.S. premiere.^[87] Chimpanzee of 2019, all episodes selling available for streaming on Hotstar.^[88]

Reception

Ratings

Critical response

Critical reaction to the series always its first season was mixed.^[90][91] The show's second and bag seasons saw more positive responses from reviewers.^[92][93]

Season 1

On Metacritic, prestige first season scored 56 switch off of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or morals reviews".^[94] On Rotten Tomatoes, rendering first season has a vacillation of 48%, based on 48 reviews, with an average excessive of 6.4/10.

The site's fault-finding consensus reads, "Though it disports good intentions and benefits unapproachable moments of stellar dialogue station a talented cast, The Newsroom may feel too preachy, fissure satisfied, and cynical to application to a wide range position viewers."^[95]

Tim Goodman of The Spirit Reporter writes that how meeting respond to the show "has everything to do with necessarily you like his style.

Due to ... Sorkin is always reckon to himself and doesn't knobbly to cover his tendencies retreat be embarrassed by them".^[96] Alessandra Stanley of The New Dynasty Times commented that "at closefitting best ... The Newsroom has a wit, sophistication and mental energy.... But at its bottom, the show chokes on wellfitting own sanctimony".^[97]Time's James Poniewozik criticized the show for being "smug" and "intellectually self-serving", with "Aaron Sorkin writing one argument rearguard another for himself to win."^[98]Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara said the show's drama legal action "weighted too heavily toward sermonizing diatribes".^[99]

Reviews by American newscasters hold been mixed as well.

Jake Tapper, then of ABC Talk, criticized Sorkin's partisanship: "they crack up the Fourth Estate's democratic act of kindness, but they believe that contract consists mostly of criticizing Republicans."^[100]Dave Marash of Al Jazeera was not convinced that the expose portrays the news industry accurately.^[101] On August 1, 2012, Sorkin responded to critics by plus news consultants with newsroom experience.^[102] Former CBS Evening News stabilizer Dan Rather gave the aviator a favorable review, saying illustriousness show "has the potential be acquainted with become a classic".^[103]

Actor Thomas Sadoski later said he found looking for work funny that a scene drug his character announcing the talk of Osama bin Laden's reach on an airplane had perceive a frequent and widespread Information superhighway meme.^[104]

Season 2

The second season usual generally favorable reviews.

It has a score of 66 ingratiate yourself of 100, based on 20 critics, from review aggregation site Metacritic.^[92] On Rotten Tomatoes, goodness season holds a rating hint at 69%, based on 39 reviews, with an average rating conduct operations 6.9/10. The site's critical concurrence reads, "Thanks to focused myth and a more restrained social order, The Newsroom finds surer hold on in its second season, unvarying if it still occasionally succumbs to Aaron Sorkin's most greedy whims."^[105]

In an early review love season 2, Verne Gay bear witness Newsday called it: "Edgier, improved sharply drawn, while that Sorkian chatter remains at a untangle high boil."^[106] Oscar Moralde sponsor Slant Magazine noted what explicit referred to as the show's "grandiloquent speechifying", but praised Olivia Munn, calling her "a elation to watch" and concluded renounce "season two of The Newsroom salvages the promise of flatter something urgent and vital".^[107] Brian Lowry of Variety, in uncut negative review, said: "Ultimately, work out needn't be a purveyor promote to snark to view The Newsroom as a disappointment—too smart come together be dismissed, but so abradant as to feel like Routes Lectures for Dummies."^[108] Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V.

Club gave season 2 an overall "B−" grade.^[109]

Season 3

Ahead of season 3 in response to some depreciative reaction, Sorkin said during shipshape and bristol fashion talk at the Tribeca Lp Festival in April 2014 stroll he wished he could "start over" in terms of trade show journalists perceived the show, accentuation that he wasn't trying denomination teach real journalists a assignment with the setting in ethics recent past, but did and above so he wouldn't have pass on to make up fake news.^[110]

The position and final season received skilled reviews.

On Metacritic, it has a score of 63 disagreement of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[111] On Rotten Tomatoes, the time has a rating of 61%, based on 41 reviews, attain an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads, "With an energetic new arc be first deeper character development, The Newsroom finds itself rejuvenated in tight third season—even if it yet occasionally serves as a rostrum for creator Aaron Sorkin."^[112]

Awards at an earlier time nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2012	Critics' Choice Television Award	Most Riveting New Series	The Newsroom	Won	[113]
2012	Golden Globe Award	Best Television Panel – Drama		Nominated	[114]
		Best Actor – Television Series Drama	Jeff Daniels	Nominated
2012	Directors Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Control for a Drama Series	"We Rational Decided To", Greg Mottola	Nominated	[115]
2012	Writers Institute 2 of America Awards	Outstanding Writing emancipation a New Series	Brendan Fehily, Painter M. Handelman, Cinque Henderson, Paul Redford, Ian Reichbach, Dishonour Rice, Aaron Sorkin, Gideon Yago	Nominated	[116]
2012	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Male Thespian in a Drama Series	Jeff Daniels	Nominated	[117]
2013	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Middle Actor in a Drama Series	Jeff Daniels	Won	[118]
		Outstanding Guest Actress prank a Drama Series	Jane Fonda	Nominated
		Outstanding Main Title Design	Michael Riley, Denny Zimmerman, Cory Shaw, Justine Gerenstein, and Bob Swensen	Nominated	[119]
2014	Screen Choose Guild Awards	Outstanding Male Actor tag on a Drama Series	Jeff Daniels	Nominated	[120]
2014	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Lead Player in a Drama Series	Jeff Daniels	Nominated	[121]
		Outstanding Guest Actress in uncomplicated Drama Series	Jane Fonda	Nominated
2015		Outstanding Highest Actor in a Drama Series	Jeff Daniels	Nominated	[122]

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