New Sorkin Trailer

Second trailer:

http://youtu.be/lgFZbrwmndA

 

I might have to add HBO. Again.

 

Does anybody do indignity better than Sam Watterston?

 

It didn't help that Sorkin seemed to be using "Studio 60" to work out his Kristin Chenoweth break-up issues.

I'm still disappointed by that show (though it had a fabulous pilot). If Sorkin's reworking his material from that era, with in a more sensible setting and less of his own weird emotional baggage, could be very good.

 

This show has the potential to be really good, and OVERWHELMINGLY smug. Probably at the same time.

It will not be treated kindly by people who blog about television for a living, I suspect. Sepinwall is probably the exception.

 

And it was all downhill from there.

 

Very good prediction, I bet. The trailer featured an awful lot of media navel gazing; seems to me The Daily Show and Colbert do all this so much better.

 

A friend sent me a message after watching the Newsroom trailer:

"Dear Aaron Sorkin: Movies."

I didn't expect to agree with him, but I do. I just feel like I've seen this one before, albeit in bits and pieces. When he writes a film, though, it's fantastic.

 

I've posted this before, but it's not good when your show hits its peak before the opening credits run the first time.

Like others have said, Studio 60 had potential, but it seemed like Sorkin's entire knowledge of sketch comedy came from reading the SNL oral history book and all he wanted to do was write about his own girl troubles.

 

Agreed. The show had some good moments. Sorkin can still write and he had some good actors to work with. But it was still a huge disappointment that deserved to be cancelled.

Not sure I agree that he should only write movies, though. Sorkin gave us a damn good show in Sports Night and a great one with The West Wing.

 

I wish I had HBO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0p-LnSUDSc

 

I never watched Studio 60. It aired on a night I always had to work and it was before I had a DVR. My understanding is that the major problem with that show was the that comedy sketches weren't funny.

But politics, both national and inter-office, is right in Sorkin's wheelhouse. So I'm betting "The Newsroom" will be pretty damn good.