http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8ovJYAU3U&feature=player_embedded

First trailer is out and the Sorkin fanboy in me is all in. It crosses his"Sports Night" and "The West Wing", just complete with the HBO allowed fbombs in his patented dialogue style. I even loved Studio 60 despite its pretentiousness and think that show could have worked on HBO. Can't wait for this one.

With they have the ****ty laugh track?

Saw this preview right before GoT...I'll give it a shot for sure, even looking forward to it.

saw that same trailed before GoT, i might give it a try. now that we have HBO again i might as well use it for new shows besides GoT

Good cast.

That is a great trailer. Interested

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgFZbrwmndA

New trailer is much more Sports Night and less West Wing.

This looks really good!

Looks like a new way to ridicule conservatives...

Lamestream media strikes again.

Hopefully he can keep it somewhat balanced. West Wing was always best when it showed the ugly on both sides as opposed to just being a platform to preach liberalism. I'm still trying to figure out what the main character is going to be dealing with, in some ways it looks like it is a combo of Bill O'Reilly and "Network" with a talking head that kind of loses it and wants to talk about the news in a different way. If he attacks both sides with equal vigor it will be an interesting show. If it is "I want to do what MSNBC has failed at" it will be a real waste. Of course this is the network of Bill Maher, Game Change, Recount, and the most disgusting documentary on Ronald Reagan I have ever imagined.

Sorkin is a true talent, I am very cautiously optimistic. At least the cast isn't filled with folks that are blatant liberal blowhards.

"I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage." Liberal high-fiving is the only reason to watch this turd.

It will be prematurely get a 2nd season, then it will be cancelled halfway through the 2nd season. Jeff Daniels is great and all, but keeping show about news fresh and interesting is too hard...unless most of the show is about Daniels' character away from work.

Jane Fonda? Really?

Forgot about Hanoi Jane. That show is done.

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I read the pilot a while back, and while it's definitely Sorkin through-and-through (in all the best ways), I am worried about the whole covering-the-news aspect as well. I'm not going to give it away here (unless you guys really want to know), but there's a real-world event that occurs during the course of the pilot that serves to date the show in a somewhat awkward way. In other words, you think it's taking place in the present day, only in some slightly alternate universe (a la The West Wing), but then about halfway through the pilot, when this real-world event happens - and these guys start to cover it - it's revealed that the show is actually taking place a couple years ago when said event happened. It's kind of an odd choice.

Then again, that entire sequence that opens the first trailer - where Jeff Daniels is on stage and has that quasi-break down - is not in the pilot draft I read at all. Granted, that scene could be from a subsequent episode, but it feels like a new intro to the character that wasn't there before. Point being, maybe they changed the real-world event as well and turned into something similar, but fictional, in order to keep from dating the show. Either way, I can definitely see the covering-the-news aspect as being the show's kryptonite, similar to the way the sketch comedy bits on Studio 60 were that show's worst parts as well.

Still, simply because it's Sorkin, I'm looking forward this...

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"I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage." Liberal high-fiving is the only reason to watch this turd.

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You sure watched that trailer objectively.

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even though Sorkin's ideology meshes with MSNBC's, the network's brass may have taken issue with the way More portrays the world of cable news and its corporate culture. In the pilot script we've seen, it's a land of egomaniacs working for wealthy drunks. (UPDATE: Our source has further elaborated to us that MSNBC also didn't like the fact that parts of the show seemed to be skewering left-leaning media.)

Interestingly, the lead character (to be played by Jeff Daniels) is a passionate, liberal Keith Olbermann–esque character who comes off as a jerk

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http://www.vulture.com/2011/07/aaron_sorkin_chris_matthews_mo.html

This is a great new trailer that debuted yesterday (I assume it'll air tonight). But yeah, echoing earlier sentiments, based on a couple quick looks here, I can already anticipate cringing whenever they do delve into reporting/dealing with actual "news"...

http://youtu.be/PpKC50uFVQ0?hd=1

Again, the show itself looks awesome, I just hope the news angle works, given a bit more context.

So I misunderstood. The quote really means to say conservatives are rational people...

Moran.

Looks like Sorkin is pretty hands-on in this, writing most of the scripts like he normally does. With as much time as he's devoted to movies of late, I thought this might be a case of him writing the pilot and turning the series over after that, but he's credited for writing at least the first 4 scripts and appears to have done most of the season.

I finally bought the West Wing complete series and have gone back and started watching it all over again (for about the 10th time). Since Bravo stopped running them a few years ago, I'd forgotten how genius that show (and Sorkin) is.

Definitely looking forward to this. I'd let my HBO lapse, but I'll be starting it back up.

Any bets on how long it takes Joshua Malina, Bradley Whitford and Timothy Busfield to show up?

Looks good. I will give it a shot.

Anyone remember another news anchor going off on-air?

"I'm mad as hell and won't take it anymore!"



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Sorkin is the only reason this show makes my lineup. Hope this premise has some legs and can carry it self well.

Am a little worried this show's writing will be the best and only thing that holds this project together.

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So I misunderstood. The quote really means to say conservatives are rational people...

Moran.

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Hahaha

Btw I'm a liberal and looking forward to watching this show, but I think Bill's take on it was pretty accurate.

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And so The Newsroom comes to HBO, which isn’t worried about advertiser backlash or lack of ratings. What the channel gets is pure Sorkin – you can take that any which way you want, depending on your thoughts about Sorkin. Are the characters exceptionally quick-witted and do they dabble in fast-paced repartee? Yes. Do characters often talk in what could best be described as elaborate, heartfelt and intellectual monologues? They do. Sorkin has historically been prone to what’s called monologueing. But perhaps it should be called soapboxing in his case because there’s always that nagging feeling that you’re listening to a lecture. And finally, is The Newsroom earnest? Yes, because pretty much everything Sorkin does is earnest – and if you didn’t know that before, you’ll know it when you hear the swelling orchestration in the introduction and at the end of some, well, earnest scenes.

If you’re not put off by some of those Sorkin traits – and honestly, they are ever-present – then The Newsroom might be a drama that hooks you with what it’s ultimately trying to say about some complicated issues.

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/newsroom-tv-review-aaron-sorkin-jeff-daniels-emily-mortimer-335598

eesh.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/06/25/120625crte_television_nussbaum

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Much of McAvoy’s diatribe is bona-fide baloney—false nostalgia for an America that never existed—but it is exciting to watch. And if you enjoyed “The West Wing,” Sorkin’s helpful counterprogramming to the Bush Administration, your ears will ***** up. The pilot of “The Newsroom” is full of yelling and self-righteousness, but it’s got energy, just like “The West Wing,” Sorkin’s “Sports Night,” and his hit movie “The Social Network.” The second episode is more obviously stuffed with piety and syrup, although there’s one amusing segment, when McAvoy mocks some right-wing idiots. After that, “The Newsroom” gets so bad so quickly that I found my jaw dropping. The third episode is lousy (and devolves into lectures that are chopped into montages). The fourth episode is the worst. There are six to go.

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“The Newsroom” is the inverse of “Veep”: it’s so naïve it’s cynical. Sorkin’s fantasy is of a cabal of proud, disdainful brainiacs, a “media élite” who swallow accusations of arrogance and shoot them back as lava. But if the storytelling were more confident, it could take a breath and deliver drama, not just talking points. Instead, the deck stays stacked. Whenever McAvoy delivers a speech or slices up a right-winger, the ensemble beams at him, their eyes glowing as if they were cultists. The series turns Will McAvoy into the equivalent of the character Karen Cartwright, on “Smash,” the performer who the show keeps insisting is God’s gift to Broadway. Can you blame me for rooting for McAvoy’s enemies, all those flyover morons, venal bean-counters, sorority girls, and gun-toting bimbos? Like a political party, a TV show is nothing without a loyal opposition.

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double eesh.

http://www.hitfix.com//whats-alan-watching/review-aaron-sorkins-the-newsroom-too-sanctimonious-for-its-own-good

Over/under on the number of front facing, quick walking/fast talking camera shots? I say 6 per episode. How many of them will have the walking/talking characters making at least one turn into a different hallway or area? Probably 4 of them.

I've read some disappointing notes from the critics the last few days. One of them said that all the Sorkinisms are cut back somewhat around the 4th episode.

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Over/under on the number of front facing, quick walking/fast talking camera shots? I say 6 per episode. How many of them will have the walking/talking characters making at least one turn into a different hallway or area? Probably 4 of them.

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Schlamme isn't directing this time. Greg Mottola(of Superbad fame) is.

TTT for tonight....but even more unimpressive reviews coming out...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77735.html

Unfortunate, but it's what I expected when I heard Sorkin was taking a stab at a show about cable news. He is losing his luster.

LMAO when I saw the hurricane clip!

Was on the fence as to whether I'd watch this or not.

Till I read this:
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/22/newsroom_star_emily_mortimer_americans_are_dangerously_uninformed/singleton/

I'm out.