9 Observations about Aaron Sorkin’s THE NEWSROOM

THE NEWSROOM This post started as a tweet, developed into a Facebook status and is now finding full expression as a blog post. recently I finished, in a double-bill, The Newsroom Season 3 (and, by extension, The Newsroom). Some observations:   The Observations 1. Humbug to the naysayers.  So it’s not quite The West Wing, but it was smart and funny and it looked good and it made you think and there is no disgrace in striving and coming up

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Tom Williams

Tom has been a development executive (Fine Line Features), a script reader (Working Title), a script editor (The Script Connection) and finally a screenwriter (Chalet Girl, BASE, Kajaki). He is repped by Sean Gascoine at United Agents. No he will not read your fu*king script, Industrial Scripts do that and do it well thanking ye kindly. You can follow Tom on Twitter, check out his IMDb profile, read more of his scribblings and tell him where to go in the comments box below…

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