Posts Tagged ‘Aaron Sorkin’
Honoree Olivia Munn attends the Variety Breakthrough of the Year Awards Las Vegas, Nevada January 9, 2014
Honoree Olivia Munn attends the Variety Breakthrough of the Year Awards Las Vegas, Nevada January 9, 2014.
Olivia Munn with Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar 2012
Tom Sadoski & I were left alone in Aaron Sorkin’s office, so we took something… twitter.com/oliviamunn/sta…
— oliviamunn (@oliviamunn) April 25, 2012
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama titled ‘Newsroom’
LOS ANGELES — HBO’s new cable news drama by Oscar-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin will be called “Newsroom,” TV Newser reported Monday.
The series will follow the antics of the “News Night” staff at a fictional cable news network called UBS.
Actor Jeff Daniels will star in the show as news anchor Will McCallister, while English actress Emily Mortimer will serve as his executive producer.
“Law & Order” veteran Sam Waterston will appear as the network’s president Charlie Skinner.
“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,” according to a description from HBO.
Actresses Alison Pill, Olivia Munn and “Slumdog Millionaire” star Dev Patel will also appear on the show as newsroom staff.
No premiere date has yet been announced.
Congrats Olivia !
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO cable news project is a go: The Social Network and West Wing writer’s behind-the-scenes drama about a fictional cable news network just earned a series order at the network.
The series centers on a cable news anchor (Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), his newsroom staff (Alison Pill, John Gallagher, Jr., Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, Thomas Sadoski) and their boss (Sam Waterston). The logline: “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.”
The project is officially untitled but has been working under the name More as the Story Develops but that will change.