I don't think there's a thread for this show (and it's still two months away), but the trailer is out:



God damn, that looks awesome. It will have its haters but for fanboys like me who were all about Sports Night, all about Broadcast News, and all about A Few Good Men/Charlie Wilson's War/The Social Network/The American President, etc. this thing is going to kick ass.

I hope it doesn't go the way of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but then again HBO has a pretty good track record unlike NBC.

Studio 60 being so self important and tone deaf makes me suspicious of this - but that trailer looked really great.

I loved Studio 60, and I have A LOT of faith in this one. I am a proud fanboy, but I think it'll be great based on content, not just based on Sorkin.

Looks awesome, will watch

i never got the studio 60 hate, i loved it

This just looks like Network mixed with Sports Night, but I loved both and trust Sorkin with pretty much anything so I'll be watching.

Me too, and it's made me wonder about all this untapped potential in Matthew Perry. There's a good actor lurking in there and we may never see it again.

Presented without comment (Ten Most Sorkin Things in the Trailer):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...in-the-trailer

True, but I don't care

Will probably be filled with a bunch of:

"You should do this."
"I want to do that."
"But you should really do this."
"I don't want to do this, I want to do that."
"Then you should do that. But you know what you should do first?"
"Before I do that?"
"Yeah."
"What?"
"You should do this."
"OK."

And, I don't care about that either.

Love everything Sorkin except S60, though Matthew Perry was my favorite part of it.

I think the problem for me was: Except for SN, all the other projects have a built-in gravity because they're about serious topics, i.e. politics / law. SN obv didn't have that, but they kept it light early and built slowly to the weightier stuff after I started caring.

I felt that S60 right from the get-go wanted me to think the (fictional) show and the people were super important for some reason, and I never got the reason. I never cared about them, but it desperately wanted me to.

Anyway, loved the Newsroom trailer. And lol "fact dump," so true.

I got into S60 before TWW, but I was huge fan of SN while it was airing. Same with the movies. I didn't want to mess TWW because all of the ads around that time for "ER" were "On a very special episode of ER." and that was every promo. They did the same with TWW promos, so I didn't bother.

A friend of mine had just got a new laptop and d/l'd the first HD video file they found, which happened to be S60. They loved it, so I decided to check it out. The reason I liked it so much is because I loved the dialogue and the performances/characters. Then the end of the 2nd ep floored me and that was all it took. I didn't dig too deep into it to be bothered with the things that most people don't like about the show on the first run-through. I did eventually, but I was already a fan so I went with it and liked every episode.

I got into TWW right before S60 ended, and I ain't been the same since

Probably time to bring back my Sabrina Lloyd avatar.

This looks like the most Sorkiny thing ever Sorkined, but also looks pretty damn awesome.

+1 to loving studio 60.

this looks awesome.

Sorkin gonna Sorkin.

The opening of the trailer for The Newsroom reminds me a lot of the opening to Studio 60. Jeff Daniels blow up ~ Judd Hirsch meltdown.

I'm excited.

Sports Night is on Netflix WI, FYI. I've actually never seen it, so I am excited about this.

I loved Sports Night so much when it first aired, but I found it a bit dated and preachy when I tried to re-watch it. I think that may simply be that my tastes have changed and become a bit more jaded, and Sorkin's approach now turns me off a bit.

"I don't know what the **** you're talking about....Yosemite"

Hahaha so good

Regarding the pilot script:



No spoiling regarding the plot or characters, just about the script itself.

You are not wrong, but I will never not find the "secular/non-secular" bit hilarious.

I don't get this line. What am I missing?

Watch the clip, it's pretty great in context.

You realize I'm the one who posted it, right?

Then I don't know what the **** you're talking about

He was referring to what is supposed to be so great about America.