The Newsroom
The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996–97, 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002. The show is set in the newsroom of a television station which is never officially named, but is generally understood to be based on the CBC itself. Inspired by American series The Larry Sanders Show and similar to such earlier series as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline, the series mined a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and the sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing City Hour, the station's nightly newscast. Although not originally intended as an ongoing series, the initial run of 13 episodes led The Newsroom to become one of the most critically acclaimed programs on Canadian television in the 1990s. Following the end of The Newsroom, Finkleman produced three different short-run series for the CBC, More Tears, Foolish Heart and Foreign Objects, all of which included Findlay as a linking character.
Jim is abducted in Baghdad while taping a segment on pets. George finds himself on the short list to receive the coveted Order of Canada.
George and the news production staff decide to produce a sitcom.
Everyone wonders why media mogul Conrad Scott is visiting the newsroom.
George is invited to give a guest lecture at a local university and, with the aid of a stolen thesis, manages to charm an attractive young student into visiting his office.
George's therapist falls into a coma shortly after suggesting that George has latent homosexual tendencies.
It is the end of the world in all dimensions.
George fails a Kafkaesque job evaluation in ways he never could have imagined. A valued veteran newsroom employee dies, George's empathy is qualified.
Racism infiltrates the newsroom.
A sniper kills again. A dog dies in the office. A power lunch goes wrong. And George regrets ever using the handicapped washroom.
George's dream date is just that: nothing more than a dream. The intelligent segment producer Karen dumbs herself down for sex and Jim makes a book deal.
George hires a temp from an old established WASP family thinking that connections will pay off. They don't. George pays.
George dodges jury duty in an animal rights case and ends up entangled with virus infected monkeys. Allen suffers from a brain tumor.
An argument between George and Alex over finding a $50 bill results in Alex losing his job on principle and then buying it back from George for a considerable sum ... also on principle.
George's jealousy gets him arrested.
A film crew invades the newsroom, making George anxious.
George tries to sell an idea for a cheese commercial; Jim develops a form of anorexia nervosa.
George secretly cancels his trip.
Alex attempts suicide after being dumped by his girlfriend.
George interviews people for a job as his personal assistant.
When it is decided to hire a new co-anchor, Jim feels his job is in jeopardy.
Everyone is in fear for their jobs after the network announces budget cuts. George promises to fight the brass on their behalf, but the only one he actually fights to save is his own.
When a failing screenwriter decides to commit suicide, George turns his videotaped attempt into a 5-part ratings winner. Then his new video star starts to have second thoughts.
Insulting his colleagues is bad enough, but when George hits on a female guest, she walks off the show.
George is obsessed with finding a bran muffin, but ends up in the middle of a fight with the cafeteria manager instead. The newsroom is excited to learn that Cynthia Dale will be spending two weeks with them until George manages to offend her, several times.
After George asks the young woman sitting outside his boss's office to get him coffee, Graham introduces her. She is Gillian Sorros, the new head of regional programming. She arrives with some strong ideas about George and his news department.
A female guest discussing the issue of Canadian unity is attracted to Jim, apparently impressed by his incredible ignorance.
George is driven to the edge of paranoia by the cumulation of a strange voice-mail message, the abduction of his couch, and the search for an indoor parking space.
A visit by director David Cronenberg is eclipsed by the shocking prospect of a possible meltdown at a nearby nuclear reactor.
As the news staff at the station panics, George interviews nuclear experts and tries to figure out how to make them entertaining on TV.
George finally becomes so obsessed with the threat to his own life that he can no longer handle reporting on the state of the emergency.
Anchorman Jim decides to run for political office, but he makes the further mistake of letting George and other newsroom staffers run his campaign.
Jim Walcott has awakened from his 2 year coma and is ready to return to the news anchor chair, much to the chagrin of Diane Gordon the new Anchor. George has his hands full working around the movie being shot in the building starring Brad Pitt & Nicole Kidman. When George feels that the executives in the tower are plotting against him he asks his assistant to borrow some of the Chairman's mail.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1996-10-21 |
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