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  • ‘The Newsroom’ to end after third season

    ‘The Newsroom’ to end after third season

    MUMBAI: The Emmy award-winning HBO drama series The Newsroom that has topped the popularity charts will begin production on its third and final season this spring. The telecast of the show is slated for fall. The announcement was made by HBO Programming president Michael Lombardo.

     

    Lombardo has been reported as saying that the farewell season will be the one to remember. Lombardo thinks that the show was hitting a smart, adult audience that many of the other dramas weren’t.

     

    Created by Academy Award winner, Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, The West Wing), The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships. Sorkin, Scott Rudin (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Alan Poul (Six Feet Under) return as executive producers, with Paul Lieberstein (The Office) joining the show as an executive producer.

     

    Returning cast regulars include Jeff Daniels (who received an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the show last September), Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel and Olivia Munn.

  • Jeff Daniels tweets ‘The Newsroom’ returning for season 3 on HBO

    Jeff Daniels tweets ‘The Newsroom’ returning for season 3 on HBO

    MUMBAI: The ACN News Night team will be back for another season. On Tuesday night, Jeff Daniels tweeted that The Newsroom has been picked up by HBO. “It’s official. #Newsroom coming back for a Season 3,” the actor, who plays anchor Will McAvoy, tweeted.

    The news comes a month after HBO programming president Michael Lombardo noted publicly that he’d be “shocked” if the series didn’t return. The hold-up has been creator Aaron Sorkin, who will need to pen the Steve Jobs film script before turning his attention back to Newsroom.

    The Sorkin creation, set behind the scenes at a cable news show, will have no shortage of news events to cover in a third season, including the Newtown School shooting (December 2012) and the Boston Marathon massacre (April 2013). The series’ second, which started airing from 14 July, will end with a two-parter taking place on election night on 15 September.

  • Paul Greengrass to helm ‘The trial of Chicago 7’

    Paul Greengrass to helm ‘The trial of Chicago 7’

    MUMBAI: Paul Greengrass is in final talks to direct the movie written by Aaron Sorkin, creator of the Newsroom, the movie is based on the trial of seven people who were charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot during the Chicago protests of 1968’s Democratic national Convention.

     

    DreamWorks will be funding development while Disney will be distributing the movie. Sorkin had signed a three project deal with DreamWorks in 2007.

     

    The project which has been in the doldrums since long, Steven Spielberg’s name was once attached to it. Due to the delay, he left, after which the contenders were Greengrass and Ben Stiller.

     

    Greengrass’ next movie is Captain Phillips. He is represented by CAA.