Aaron Sorkins HBO Series Gets New Title: Newsroom

Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO drama series, known as More As This Story Develops, has gotten an official title: Newsroom. According to the show’s HBO site, Newsroom is set behind the scenes of a show at afictionalcable news channel UBS and is based loosely on Countdown with Kieth Olberman while it was on MSNBC. (Sorkin spent time shadowing Olberman while researching his new series.) HBO provides 2 snippets of dialogue from the project, which stars Jeff Daniels as UBS primetime host Will McCallister and Law & Order‘s Sam Waterston as UBSNewsPresident Charlie Skinner. In one scene, a talented young producer that was brought over to UBS from CNN realizes that his new job may not be as secure as he thought it was. Okay, Im calling Jim Walton and begging for a job. Here is an exchange between Will and Charlie from another scene. Will: Charlie, I cant go after Halliburton and miss. Charlie: Oh report the goddam news, Will. Will: You remember a guy named Dan Rather? Charlie: Dan got it right. Will: Hes no longer on television. The West Wing creator Sorkin, an Oscar winner for his Social Network screenplay, executive produces Newsroom with Scott Rudin.