﻿{"id":16360,"date":"2014-12-19T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16360"},"modified":"2014-12-20T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T23:45:34","slug":"farewell-to-the-newsroom-by-aaron-sorkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16360","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221; by Aaron Sorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just watched a recording of the sixth and final episode of the third and final series of the American televison show &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221; which in Britain was aired by the Sky Atlantic channel. I have seen all 25 episodes and really enjoyed the show. The final episode neatly pulled together many of the story strands and left us feeling good.<\/p>\n<p>This political drama series was created and principally written by Aaron Sorkin who is noted for his clever (and rapid-fire) dialogue. I have seen and admired almost all his previous work including &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; (the best ever TV series) and &#8220;Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip&#8221; and the films &#8220;A Few Good Men&#8221;, &#8220;The American President&#8221;, &#8220;Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War&#8221;, &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; (especially good), and &#8220;Moneyball&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221;. you can access the official web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/the-newsroom#\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and the Wikipedia page <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Newsroom_(U.S._TV_series)\">here<\/a>. So, is it all over? Sorkin says so, but fans of &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221; have speculated about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designntrend.com\/articles\/31211\/20141217\/newsroom-5-spinoff-series-ideas-fan-want.htm\">five spin-off series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just watched a recording of the sixth and final episode of the third and final series of the American televison show &#8220;The Newsroom&#8221; which in Britain was aired by the Sky Atlantic channel. I have seen all 25 episodes and really enjoyed the show. The final episode neatly pulled together many of the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16370,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360\/revisions\/16370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}