The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that aired on CBC Television in the 1996–97, 2003–04, and 2004–05 seasons. Escape from the Newsroom, a two-hour television film, aired in 2002. The episode takes place in the newsroom of a television station that is never officially named but is widely assumed to be modelled on the CBC. The series, inspired by the American series The Larry Sanders Show and similar to earlier series such as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline, mined a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing City Hour, the station's nightly newscast. Despite not being intended as a continuing series, The Newsroom quickly became one of the most critically acclaimed programs on Canadian television in the 1990s. Following the conclusion of The Newsroom, Finkleman created three short-run CBC programs, More Tears, Foolish Heart, and Foreign Objects, all of which featured Findlay as a connecting character.
Read full
The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that aired on CBC Television in the 1996–97, 2003–04, and 2004–05 seasons. Escape from the Newsroom, a two-hour television film, aired in 2002. The episode takes place in the newsroom of a television station that is never officially named but is widely assumed to be modelled on the CBC. The series, inspired by the American series The Larry Sanders Show and similar to earlier series such as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline, mined a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing City Hour, the station's nightly newscast. Despite not being intended as a continuing series, The Newsroom quickly became one of the most critically acclaimed programs on Canadian television in the 1990s. Following the conclusion of The Newsroom, Finkleman created three short-run CBC programs, More Tears, Foolish Heart, and Foreign Objects, all of which featured Findlay as a connecting character.
Discussion