If TV and movie journalists were real...

The Newsroom comes back pretty soon for its final season and I cannot wait. Love that show.

 

Pretty much everything I have read and heard about that movie (in previews) guarantees I am going to hate it with the blazing fire of a billion suns.

 

I wonder if the reason it's on this fall is because they assumed they were done and are being coaxed back (meaning...a hastily thrown-together season that will tank. I hope not.).

 

I think the story was that everybody wanted it back for another season, but Sorkin wasn't sure if he wanted to do it and they were not going to go on without him. That would explain why the season finale could serve very well as the final episode of the series.

That is my concern, that they tied up too many storylines and that will make it a weak final season.

 

I haven't really kept up intensely on details on "The Network," but everything I have read seems to convey that Sorkin has pretty much lost interest and is only pumping out this final season to keep HBO DVD-sellers happy.

I think the cast is sharp enough the stories should be reasonably decent anyway, but I do get the impression Sorkin looks upon it mainly as a chore (which of course begs the question of what other dynamic creative and exciting project he'd rather be doing instead).

HBO has been having a problem in the past five years or so of its second-level non-headlining mini-series projects running out of creative gas early and then just fizzling out. "Hung" and "In Treatment" would be prime examples.

"Boardwalk Empire," one of its flagships, seems to be sputtering to the finish line much as "Deadwood" did.

 

I didn't see last season of The Newsroom, did the woman from Match Point ever figure out how to send an email?

 

"Where the hell is Dunn?"
"Hell if I know. Probably drinking with the hockey team again."

 

Wouldn't mind seeing Brad Pitt play Peter if they remade It Happened One Night.

Hard-charging, carousing, sharp-as-a-knife reporter if ever there was one.

 

Don't forget Brad Pitt as a reporter in "A River Runs Through It." There was one newsroom scene, but mostly he drank and fished.

 

The newest First Take host:

 

How about House of Cards? The sassy young woman reporter star who sleeps with her sources? And even the older woman she replaces on the White House best says she'd done it to get stories. Yeah, that happens all the time. (sarcasm font)

 

Ben Urich would have some stories to tell