New Aaron Sorkin project for HBO
The West Wing writer lands a new HBO series about the workings of a cable TV newsroom.
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Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Social Network) is returning to the small screen with a new series for HBO.
The cable network has picked up his TV pilot set in a (fictional) cable newsroom staff as they attempt to report the news in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles.
It has ordered 10 episodes of the drama, which has the working title of More As This Story Develops.
Featuring as the news anchor is Jeff Daniels with Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn, Alison Pill and ex-Skins actor Dev Patel.
According to the logline for the show, “Together they set out on a patriotic and quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.”
Sorkin spoke with TV Guide about the show in February, saying, “It’ll be aspirational. It’ll be wish fulfillment. But they’re going to lose as much as they’re going to win. In other words, it’s not going to be a fantasy. They’re going to be trying to do well in a context where it’s very difficult to do well when there are commercial concerns and political concerns and corporate concerns.”
Source: EW, Huffington Post
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Remember “Drop the dead donkey”?
I don’t the yanks could surpass DTDD.
I like everything about this but Olivia Munn, can’t stand her.
I like most of Sorkin’s work and loved The WW. Really hope it gets picked up by the ABC.
You’re missing his best credit ever: Sports Night. But… this show does seem like it’s going to be quite similar. They should just have left West Wing to Sorkin and let him run it forever. The world is a better place when that show is on TV.
I agree that it sounds like a Sports Night reboot, but anything Sorkin pens is pure gold. Bring it on!
@Phoenix
I was not saying that it would bot be a good show (almost everything I watch is from cable tv, mostly hbo), just simply stating that it seems a bit uninspired for someone of Sorkin’s talent to put a very slight twist on a previous piece of work.
@Xave
Totally agree, it was an amazingly underrated porgram, would have flourished on cable
@Justin. IMO that’s a good thing!
Justin, maybe you want to wait until you’ve actually seen the show before dismissing it out of hand.
I’m looking forward to this so much. I just hope it gets picked up by an Australian Network, hopefully ABC because they treated West Wing correctly.
Love Sorkin but this seems very unoriginal. I mean to be honest it sounds like the exact same show as “Sports Night”, a show Sorkin created back in 1998. It was about the going ons of the production of a sports news program
Anyone remember Sports Night?
Sounds fantastic. I hope it gets picked up in Australia.
Love Sorkin. Can’t wait. Please let it be more West Wing than Studio 60.