There’s love trouble aplenty in episode four of Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom, which opens on New Year’s Eve 2010. Our hero, crusading anchorman Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), dares to approach a beautiful stranger at his office party—and quickly gets a drink tossed in his face. The tosser? None other than Daniels’ Broadway wife and ...

Episode three of HBO’s new drama The Newsroom, set during the midterm elections in 2010, examines the rise of the Tea Party. Our hero, anchorman Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), a self-described mainstream Republican, begins the show with an on-air apology “for the failure of this program during the time I’ve been on it to successfully inform and educate ...

On the second episode of HBO’s The Newsroom, the chemistry grows between junior producer Maggie Jordan (Tony nominee Alison Pill) and her new young boss, Jim Harper (Tony winner John Gallagher Jr.). Meanwhile, Maggie’s boyfriend, senior producer Don Keefer (Tony nominee Thomas Sadoski), is trying to lure her away from News Night while executive producer MacKenzie McHale (Emily ...

The 75-minute premiere episode of HBO’s new drama The Newsroom, which aired on June 24, offered enough smart dialogue to fill three episodes of a typical TV drama. For the next 10 weeks, Broadway.com will spotlight our favorite zingers straight from the mouths of the Broadway stars who play staffers at News Night.

Anchorman Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels ...