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When Bad Title Sequences Happen to Good Shows (and Vice Versa)
I’m really enjoying ABC family’s Bunheads this summer, but to appreciate it, you have to get past the beginning. I don’t mean the pilot or the premise (though more on those in a second); I mean the opening title sequence.
First, there’s the show’s title itself—a slang term for ballet dancers—which is a trifecta of badness. It’s …
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The Morning After: Follow-Up Story
Brief spoilers for last night’s The Newsroom below:
Because I have already been very critical of The Newsroom, last night’s episode was the last of which I saw before writing my original review, let me kick this post off by …
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The Morning After: The Newsroom’s First Draft of History
My review of The Newsroom is in this week’s TIME (here’s my blog post elaborating on it), and it was not a positive one. But there’s been so much ink and bandwidth used up on the show in advance that I’m more interested now in …
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Dead Tree Alert: Blowhardball: The Not-So-Special Comment of HBO’s The Newsroom
Sunday night, HBO premieres The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to do for cable news what The West Wing did for politics: present a romanticized version of a beleaguered institution, with a cast of hard-working idealists, long …
Jeff Daniels on The Newsroom, Sorkin’s Script and Public Meltdowns
Jeff Daniels stars as Will McAvoy, a veteran news anchor who suffers a crisis of conscience and snaps in front of an audience of college students in The Newsroom, debuting on HBO June 24. Aaron Sorkin’s first television show in …
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You’re Sorkin in It: HBO’s Newsroom Trailer Looks Pretty Familiar
Taking advantage of the tune-in audience for the season premiere of Game of Thrones, and the built-in overlap between fans of fantasy epics and cable news, HBO previewed a trailer for its Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom last night.
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Sorkin’s Newsroom Plans Premiere, Adds to Vast History of Fake TV Networks
According to a report in Mediabistro, HBO is moving ahead with plans for a summer premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s cable-news drama The Newsroom, possibly on June 24. The report also says that there’s a new name for the fictional cable …
