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First Trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s New HBO Drama THE NEWSROOM, Starring Jeff Daniels and Sam Waterston

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: April 1st, 2012 at 7:35 pm

Right about now, HBO subscribers are probably in a high over the debut of the second season of Game of Thrones or the impending summer return of season five of True Blood. But there is a new series on the premium network you should keep an eye on. It seems that Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) has a lot of venting to do and he gets everything off his chest in this brilliant first trailer for the new HBO drama, The Newsroom. Starring Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston and Emily Mortimer, The Newsroom keeps a familiar politico-centric feel to Sorkin’s The West Wing but now features a newsroom setting replacing the White House. In this first trailer, nationally recognized news anchor Will McAvoy (Daniels) loses his objectivity (and possibly his audience) when responding to a question from the crowd at a college panel. Daniels immediately won me over by saying everything a rational and informed human being should say in spite of the political backlash it was bound to incur. Hit the jump to check it out.

HBO News: Leonardo DiCaprio Sets Up Series BEAT THE REAPER; Jane Fonda Will Recur on NEWSROOM

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: December 14th, 2011 at 5:37 pm

Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way has hung onto the rights to adapt Josh Bazell’s suspense novel Beat the Reaper for a few years now.  We last heard about development on the project in February, when D.J. Caruso was on board to direct a feature film version and DiCaprio was looking for a space in his schedule to star.  Much has changed since February.  THR reports Beat the Reaper is set up at HBO as an ongoing drama series.  DiCaprio will executive produce, but is out of the equation as an actor.  And Caruso’s name is not mentioned.  Brian Koppleman and David Levieen (Ocean’s Thirteen) will write and executive produce the series about “a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient comes through his ward that recognizes the internist from his old life—when he used to work for a notorious crime family.”  HBO: where even the medical dramas are about the mafia!  I kid, because I am intrigued.  Last Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire finale/Luck sneak peak reiterated that HBO has returned to their creative heights.  Beat the Reaper joins a promising crop of HBO shows in development including Da Brick, The Corrections, Hobgoblin, and Newsroom.

Speaking of that last show—Jane Fonda has joined the cast.  Hit the jump for details.

Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Cable News Drama Officially Called NEWSROOM; Check Out a Small Bit of the Script

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: December 5th, 2011 at 6:23 pm

For awhile now we’ve been updating on the progress of a new HBO drama series from writer Aaron Sorkin with the likes of Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn, Emily Mortimer and more playing various characters working at a fictional cable news channel called UBS. More specifically, the series follows one of the programs on the channel that’s not unlike Countdown with Kieth Olberman. Now HBO Watch is reporting the series formerly known as More as This Story Develops will now simply be called Newsroom. Obviously it draws parallels to Sorkin’s Sports Night series from years back, but this will much different tonally and stylistically. Daniels play the show host Will McCallister while Waterston plays network president Charlie Skinner and if you want to get a taste of the dynamic between these two characters and the work Sorkin has put on the page, you can check out a bit of the expected snappy dialogue from the show after the jump.

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