Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels in THE NEWSROOM.
THE “WEST WING” CREATOR tells an alluring new story with a large all-star cast, spearheaded by Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer, for his latest project for HBO about a cable news network.
This weekend HBO released the first trailer for its upcoming series The Newsroom, an Aaron Sorkin drama about the behind-the-scenes controversies and shenanigans at a cable news network. And it struck us as immediately familiar. Isn’t this just a tweak of the setup for Network, Paddy Chayefsky’s eerily prophetic television satire from 1976?
