Series Description:

The Newsroom Cast:

The Newsroom Trivia:

Sorkin actually began developing a series that would become "The Newsroom" in 2009. He researched the subject matter by seeing what took place on and off the set of several real-life cable news shows.

The Newroom's fictional network call letters are "ACN" which stands for "Atlantis Cable Network". There is a real company in Canada named "ACN" that provides telephone and web connection services. There was a TV home shopping network named "ACN (America's Collectibles Network)" in the U.S. until 2000 when they changed their name to Jewelry Television.

The news stories covered on the show are real-life past news stories.

Ironically, Jane Fonda plays the CEO of ACN with a hard-nosed personality very close to that of Ted Turner, the creator of CNN and Fonda's third husband! In episode #3, "The 112th Congress", there is a conversation about the similarities between the Tea Party's tactics of today and the radical leftists of the 1960s in which one of the characters mentions that "Hayden" is one of the 60s leftists. That was a reference to Tom Hayden who was Jane Fonda's second husband.

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

The First Season

1. We Just Decided To (75 Minutes) (6/24/2012)
2. News Night 2.0 (7/1/2012)
3. The 112th Congress (7/8/2012)
4. I'll Try to Fix You (7/15/2012)
5. Amen (7/22/2012)
6. Bullies (7/29/2012)
7. 5/1 (8/5/2012)
8. The Blackout - Part 1: Tragedy Porn (8/12/2012)
9. The Blackout - Part 2: Mock Debate (8/19/2012)
10. The Greater Fool (8/26/2012)

The Second Season

11. Has been renewed but air date has not been announced.

TV Specials:

1. Making The Newsroom (6/14/2012)
2. The Fourth Estate (6/15/2012)