The Newsroom

• Title: The Newsroom – I’ll Try to Fix You
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On New Year’s Eve Mackenzie’s (Emily Mortimer) boyfriend Wade (Jon Tenney), an Assistant US Attorney, comes clean with Will (Jeff Daniels) about the government’s unwillingness to fund the prosecution of white-collar crime, and Maggie (Alison Pill) is mortified when Don (Thomas Sadoski) attempts to set-up Jim (John Gallagher Jr.) with Maggie’s roommate Lisa (Kelen Coleman).

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• Title: The Newsroom – The 112th Congress
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Where The Newsroom‘s first episode dealt with a single day, and the second focused on the show’s first full week under new executive producer Mackenzie MacHale (Emily Mortimer), the third episode of the new HBO series takes place over a period of five months as the newly re-branded “News Night” takes on the Tea Party and ruffles the feathers of ACN’s parent company bringing the full corporate attention to the show’s drop in ratings and disregard for the economic consequences at playing hardball with large corporations such as Koch Industries.

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• Title: The Newsroom – We Just Decided To
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Starting in 1998, for the better part of a decade, writer/producer Aaron Sorkin created three primetime shows for network television. One centered around the White House produced critical and mass appeal. The other two, neither of which received the same notoriety, were about a subject dear to his heart – television. Sorkin returns with a new show, a new network, and a familiar subject matter with The Newsroom. It’s not television, it’s Sorkin on HBO.

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