In their effort to become the Costco of fast-talking, bordering-on-overwritten political humor, HBO is this season offering a bulk selection of verbose, foul-mouthed, politically-charged programs to any subscribers who wish to have expletives shouted at them. As previously seen in trailer, next month brings the network Veep, the Armando Iannucci-created White House comedy that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Matt Walsh, Tony Hale, and Anna Chlumsky. And, as seen below in its first trailer, Aaron Sorkin's similarly-trenchant The Newsroom comes in June. Featuring an impressive cast rivaling Veep's for both eclecticism and likelihood of getting pissed off, the comedic drama stars Jeff Daniels as an in-crisis news anchor working alongside Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, Alison Pill, and, best of all, Sam Waterston. Yes, Jack McCoy is back, and he's more authoritatively sage-like than ever. Now he wears a bow tie:
Here's the newest preview for HBO's upcoming The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin-created series in which anodyne news anchor Jeff Daniels has a public meltdown and reinvents himself as an impassioned Aaron Sorkin character. The first trailer highlighted the aforementioned meltdown, ... / Continue →
Based on the theory that Liberace and his longtime companion may have had more than friendship going on beneath all those layers of rhinestone cape, Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra premieres later next month on HBO. Here's a new trailer, giving us our first only line ... / Continue →
Neglectful of his duties since 2006's middling For Your Consideration, Christopher Guest at last returns to his sworn task of making Fred Willard look like a jackass with Family Tree. This time, Guest's usual mockumentary approach has been stretched out into an HBO series, whic... / Continue →
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HBO's 'The Newsroom' Trailer Is 'Sports Night: CNN Edition'
\n\nIn their effort to become the Costco of fast-talking, bordering-on-overwritten political humor, HBO is this season offering a bulk selection of verbose, foul-mouthed, politically-charged programs to any subscribers who wish to have expletives shouted at them. As previously seen in trailer, next month brings the network Veep, the Armando Iannucci-created White House comedy that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Matt Walsh, Tony Hale, and Anna Chlumsky. And, as seen below in its first trailer, Aaron Sorkin's similarly-trenchant The Newsroom comes in June. Featuring an impressive cast rivaling Veep's for both eclecticism and likelihood of getting pissed off, the comedic drama stars Jeff Daniels as an in-crisis news anchor working alongside Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel, Alison Pill, and, best of all, Sam Waterston. Yes, Jack McCoy is back, and he's more authoritatively sage-like than ever. Now he wears a bow tie:
