Aaron Sorkin's 'Newsroom' Renewed for Third and Final Season

[ashling]

HBO has officially renewed the Jeff Daniels drama for a final installment, which is expected to air this fall. The news comes nearly six months after HBO programming president Michael Lombardo noted publicly that he'd be "shocked" if the series didn't return. The holdup has been creator Aaron Sorkin, who needed to pen the Steve Jobs film script before turning his attention back to Newsroom.



Though the series, starring Daniels, Emily Mortimer and Sam Waterston, has found itself on the receiving end of media criticism since its summer 2012 debut, it has performed for HBO. In addition to an Emmy win for Daniels and decent ratings -- the season-two premiere lured 2.2 million, up 4 percent from season one -- Newsroom has delivered a passionate, elite viewership that includes such bold-face names as Dan Rather and Brian Williams, and the kind of high-brow conversation that comes with it.
Lombardo was more specific about that Newsroom allure during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter this past spring: "It felt like the show was hitting a smart, adult audience that many of our dramas weren't," he noted at that time, adding: "For a thinking audience, it's appointment viewing."

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I was right, life sucks!

[Chan790]

1. Not happy with this.

Given it's not being cancelled and the ratings were fine; the talk is that it's ending because Sorkin basically feels he has better things to do that this. He pushed back the start of writing the upcoming season for other commitments and now we hear it's the last season.

(HBO can't be happy either. This along with Girls were added to be anchors to replace series that they had ending or winding-down. Now they have three ending series in The Newsroom, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood and a huge turnover in content in their original programming division over a 18-month span.)

[ashling]

2. Maybe he's afraid he'll be saddled with

Frank "Hollywood" Luntz