The Newsroom(2012)

series - first aired/released 2012-06-24 - audience 8.1

Drama

Directed by Alan Poul, Alex Graves, Anthony Hemingway, Carl Franklin, Daniel Minahan, Greg Mottola, Jason Ensler, Jeremy Podeswa, Joshua Marston, Julian Farino, Lesli Linka Glatter, Paul Lieberstein

A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.