tvshow:the newsroom

The Man Behind ‘Newsroom’ Anchor Will McAvoy’s Fake Tweets - The Daily Beast
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/21/the-man-behind-newsroom-anchor-will-mcavoy-s-fake-tweets.html

@willmcavoyacn
▻https://twitter.com/WillMcAvoyACN
is the #Twitter handle of a 29-year-old man who wishes to remain nameless because he spends his day writing copy for a major airline.

Although “McAvoy” declines to disclose his identity, he’s hoping to use his experience to get into television writing and is already working on a spec script for a Season 3 of The Newsroom. The original impetus for his Twitter accounts was a way to get rid of writer’s block and write more like Aaron Sorkin. It is a tribute to Sorkin’s writing that the characters he created can inspire such fully-formed fan tributes that they are able to wade into online debates untethered to their maker.

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▻http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/dominique-bry/210713/newsroom-tous-en-salle-des-nouvelles

Série brillante et engagée sur le thème des médias, appelée « Salle des nouvelles » au Québec, « The Newsroom » plonge le spectateur dans le quotidien (plutôt nocturne d’ailleurs) de l’équipe de « News Night », le JT de la chaîne d’information en continu ACN, network qui se frotte à CNN et Fox News et qui, sous l’impulsion de Mackenzie McHale et de son présentateur-vedette Will McAvoy, entend délivrer une autre information. La série d’Aaron Sorkin mêle habilement les ressorts d’un drama bien huilé, qui tend vers le soap quand il s’agit de dérouler des intrigues amoureuses entre les personnages ou vers la comédie avec virtuosité et humour au long des joutes verbales incessantes. Dire que chaque épisode de « The Newsroom » est rythmé est un euphémisme, presque un pléonasme.

#scénariste #tv_show #hbo #journalisme #télé #temps_réel #militer (McAvoy dirait plutôt #civiliser)

’The Hour’ And Women’s Culture v. Hard News - ThinkProgress
►http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/11/29/1258261/the-hour-the-newsroom-2

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I wrote earlier this year that The Hour, the BBC’s period drama about the producers, reporters, and anchor on a show of the same title trying to break through the BBC’s strictures and the stifling social environment of the late 1950s, was the show that Aaron Sorkin wanted his HBO drama The Newsroom to be. It was attuned to the actual rhythms and difficulties of reporting, the stories are legitimately revealing rather than pontificating, and the characters face genuine obstacles to getting those stories on the air. And in the second season of the show, which began its run on BBC America last night, I think that’s become even more true, particularly in the way that The Hour is handling the rise of a phenomenon that The Newsroom tried to critique decades later: the rise of commercial television programming aimed at women.

I talked to Abi Morgan, The Hour‘s creator, about the show’s approach to gender in general, and about the kind of programming aimed at women like Marnie (Oona Chaplin), the upper-class wife of The Hour anchor Hector (Dominic West), who begins exploring a career as the host of a cooking show. She explained:

I think if you look at the women, the on-screen talent at that time, on the whole they were either singing along to a puppet, or they were presenting the kind of soft magazine programs that were just starting to come up through the ’50s. I liked the idea of Marnie almost becoming quite literally this professional housewife. She’s this Fanny Cradock-esque character. It also felt like a kind of brilliant, brittle metaphor for this kind of life Marnie finds herself encased in. You’ll see that marriage really is tested through the course of the series….

#femmes #médias #séries #couple