official stiob preparation station (newsroom s2)

[sleigh]

He’s back: HBO is giving Aaron Sorkin’s cable news project a green light: 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.” Basically: The backstage cable network drama of Sorkin’s Sports Night combined with a probable dash of West Wing-style media politics.
The project is officially untitled but has been working under the name More as the Story Develops (that will, thankfully, change; Sorkin typically comes up with more punchy titles). Sorkin is executive producing along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/09/08/aaron ... ews-drama/

[Feech La Manna]

"You've got the motherfucking thing today?"
"Oh yes. The goddamn cocksucking thing."

[emotional fascism]

olivia munn make shit unwatchable. why cast her?

[Feech La Manna]

Jesus Christ how does Olivia Munn keep getting acting work

[mikey]

never mention studio 60 on the sunset strip

[sleigh]

Pretty easy to imagine her going the way of Moira Kelly but I'm pretty psyched about Emily Mortimer tbh

[sleigh]

never mention studio 60 on the sunset strip

i agree

[manvstrees]

oh god anything with emily mortimer

[ueckerist]

SAM MUTHAFUCKIN WATERSTON YALL

[badhat]

man i mean good luck and hopefully it'll work but it feels so potentially rife for just being a rehash of old ideas and actual dialog for that matter.

HBO makes it sorta promising, but i dunno

[Locke]

i don't understand the olivia munn hate

ive only seen her on the daily show

[Asian Santa Baby]

i watched attack of the show everyday for three years because of olivia munn do you care??

[delgriffith]

We have to kill Olivia Munn.

[mouse pad]

they're going to call it The News Wire

[Feech La Manna]

We have to fuck Olivia Munn consistently enough to keep her off camera.

[sleigh]

man i mean good luck and hopefully it'll work but it feels so potentially rife for just being a rehash of old ideas and actual dialog for that matter.

HBO makes it sorta promising, but i dunno

Yeah totally but would you really rather him try new ground

Like when Treme was announced it was cool (to me anyways, I don't recall that discussion at all) that he was going for a serious change in tone, and then it rapidly became clear that what made the Wire great was his closeness to the subject matter.

Sorkin’s a great writer and I don’t think you could really ever knock Simon’s skill as a writer but if there’s one opinion I’ve developed about tv it’s that the whole “write what you know” mantra totally extends to the medium.

[Asian Santa Baby]

olivia munn was legitimately awful in perfect couples though perhaps this acting thing isnt for her also do you guys think she will get nude for the role if so kudos to you mr. sorkin

[badhat]

right but post WW sorkin has done exactly one good thing, the Social Network, and it was a huge departure.

[delgriffith]

He was pretty good for 1 minute on 30 Rock.

[Feech La Manna]

Did y'all see him on Entourage?

He really put poor Ari through the wringer!

[Asian Santa Baby]

i remember liking studio 60 up to the episode i cant remember because i simply stopped watching and then it got cancelled

[super gas]

nah social network was mediocre too, and it was adopted.

as for upcoming hbo shows: luck > more as this story develops

[nefarious]

[badhat]

social network was a great script, adapted or not. no idea why that would disqualify it anyway.

[badhat]

but yeah Luck looks incredible

[jerkstore]

Very much more looking forward to upcoming political thriller/satire, Veep, in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the President of the United States of America

[Jeremy]

This should really give him the freedom to move away from being chained to contemporary tastes and trends in television.

[badhat]

it feels like howard stern going to satellite though

whats he gonna do if he cant complain about networks

[feral]

What is it about Emily Mortimer

The accent?

[Feech La Manna]

It's pretty unfair to compare something to a show where Michael Mann and David Milch are having creative battles