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The Newsroom

8.2
3 seasons
32 episodes
Ended
Comedy
Drama

Plot Summary

The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.

First Aired:October 21, 1996
Last Aired:March 28, 2005
Episode Runtime:23m, 24m
Networks:
CBC Television
Created By:
Ken Finkleman

Cast & Characters

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Seasons (4)

Season 1

Season 1

13 episodes

Aired: 1996

The half-hour comedy is set in the tumultuous TV newsroom world of George Findlay. The overbearing regional news director is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.

Season 2

Season 2

13 episodes

Aired: 2004

Fans who have long awaited the return of the show's clever and provocative satire will not be disappointed to see George Findlay and his staff back in the newsroom, where pettiness and moral bankruptcy are taken to new depths.

Season 3

Season 3

6 episodes

Aired: 2005

The third season of THE NEWSROOM, like its previous incarnations, is a deep-down comic microcosm of the world at large. A tangle of a, b, c, and d plots-the show mixes love, politics, bureaucracy, equality, violence, religion, marriage, sex and hunger and, in the end, makes perfect, hilarious sense.

Production

CBC