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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
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Miami, FLORIDA – HBO Latin America announced the July 1st premiere
of the all-new original drama series, The Newsroom, in the Caribbean.
Created by Oscar® and four-time Emmy® award winner Aaron Sorkin (The
Social Network), the smart, topical, humorous and highly entertaining
series The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable
news program of the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on-and-off
camera lives of its acerbic anchor and newsroom staff.
The first season kicks off with ACN's “News Night” anchor Will McAvoy
(Jeff Daniels) returning to his job to find that his executive producer
and most of his staff are leaving his show. Will learns that he’s been
assigned a new executive producer: MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer), a
former girlfriend. Will and his overhauled staff face an immediate
challenge when breaking news comes over the wire and they set out on a
patriotic quixotic mission to deliver news with integrity in the face of
corporate and commercial obstacles, and their own personal
entanglements. Over the course of this first season, the group of highly
capable, emotionally scarred professionals will share one elusive goal:
to do TV news well.
In addition to Jeff Daniels as Will, paradoxically committed to
excellence and self-destruction, the cast of The Newsroom includes Emily
Mortimer as MacKenzie, who sees in Will a chance to build something
special; Sam Waterston as Charlie, the boozy yet principled head of
ACN’s news division; John Gallagher, Jr. as Jim, a resourceful senior
producer; Alison Pill as Maggie, an intern-turned-producer who ends up
in an emotional tug-of-war with Don (Thomas Sadoski) and Jim; Dev Patel
as Neal, a junior staffer; Olivia Munn as Sloan, a sexy financial
analyst, and Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing, CEO of ACN’s parent company.
While the ACN Network is fictional, the show will touch upon true events
such as the 2010 BP oil spill, the Arizona anti-immigration controversy
and the Occupy Wall Street headlines.
Executive producers for The Newsroom include Aaron Sorkin, who has won
an Oscar® and four Emmys® (The Social Network, Moneyball, Charlie
Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men and The West Wing), along with Scott Rudin
(No Country for Old Men) and Alan Poul (Six Feet Under).
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