When is newsroom returning to hbo

The biggest thing to look out for is the high-profile-guest phenomenon that occurs with shows once they gain a little popularity that is, once the high-profile guests can be sure they won't be appearing on a flop, or on a show that's canceled before their episodes air. Have a question? Email us at questions tvtabloid. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided. Q: What TV series has had the longest opening sequence? You remember The Newsroom. It ran for three series on HBO between and and it was about a newsroom.

Oh, come on, you do remember it. It had exactly the same first scene as everything else Sorkin has written, where a middle-aged figure of white authority loses his cool and has a Howard Beale -style meltdown in public. The only people who watched it were journalists, and they all hated it, the same way that the only people who watched Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip were comedy writers, who also hated it. In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair in which he discussed his entire career, the Oscar-winning screenwriter dove into the issues he faced with the HBO series.

I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together. The Newsroom ran for three seasons beginning in and consisted of 25 episodes. The political drama followed the behind-the-scenes drama of a television news channel where Jeff Daniels starred as anchor Will McAvoy.