Comments on: Aaron Sorkin’s Next Show

By: The Newsroom, by Tom Francis

The Newsroom, by Tom Francis — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:32:57 +0000

[…] leaked Aaron Sorkin script I wrote up a while back is now a show, called The Newsroom. It goes behind the scenes of a nightly news show […]

By: SportsNight Lover

SportsNight Lover — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:09:53 +0000

So Sorkin’s gonna keep writin’ SportsNight till he gets it right?

Wow, impressive. So the last episode of season 1 will be called, “What Kind of Day It’s Been,” Joshua Malina will show up, there will be a slew of Gilbert & Sullivan references, at some point someone will paraphrase Thomas Merton and go,
“‘I don’t always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.”

Someone will be in the tall weeds
Someone will decide that, “ordinarily it takes hours for someone to realize I’m not quaified…”

Oooh, maybe he could throw back in the Three Dog Night songs and see if someone else still hasn’t slept with someone in Spain because they’ve never been to Spain.

Yes, I’m looking forward to it!

By: lemon-lyman

lemon-lyman — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:15:22 +0000

You forgot the part where one of the main characters, usually the smartest one, is a writer and will give a short but incredibly eloquent soliloquy about how hard it is to be a writer. Afterwards, he will produce something brilliant which will form the climax of the show and everyone will tell him how brilliant he is.

By: Ronin08

Ronin08 — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:07:49 +0000

I saw Sorkin speak recently at an event for the WGA. He said this: “I’m not going to make any friends here, but, The Social Network….I wrote it on one draft.”

I’ve never heard a room GASP before. I didn’t know that happened outside of movies.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:30:22 +0000

Also The American President.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:13:47 +0000

Yeah, I was imagining him as Matthew Perry.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:36:56 +0000

Wow, does it really star Jeff Daniels? That’s a weird choice. I do not see him as Alpha Male at all.

By: Octaeder

Octaeder — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:51:32 +0000

This could have just been a direct lift from any of the other shows in a new setting and I’d still be excited. I think I even persisted with Studio 60 longer than most.

If 5 doesn’t happen at least once by the third episode though I’m taking it as a portent of the end of the world.