The Newsroom
1996 / TV-MAThe tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.
Seasons & Episode
Jim gets abducted while taping a feel-good pet segment in war-torn Afghanistan, and George is on the shortlist for the Order of Canada.
George and his staff of segment producers have a sudden interest in producing sitcoms - at $50,000 per episode all they need is one dumb idea.
Media tycoon Conrad Scott (Doug Lennox) visits the newsroom and is offered a life-changing gristly steak.
George is asked to lecture at the local university and, thanks to a bit of charm and a stolen thesis, wows the class enough to hold 'office hours'; with a very attractive, very young student, Lolita.
George's therapist falls into a coma after suggesting that George has latent homosexual tendencies.
It is the end of the world in all dimensions.
The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.