TV Bits: ‘The Newsroom,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘Glee’
By Germain Lussier/Aug. 2, 2012 4:30 pm EST
Aaron Sorkin, head writer and creator of HBO’s The Newsroom, was at the Television Critics Association event this week and found himself defending the show, much like his lead character. Sorkin assured everyone that the writing staff was not fired, as previously reported, he doesn’t feel the show is at all sexist, and denied having a girlfriend in the writers room. You can head to Gawker to read his quotes but this is one of those odd cases of art imitating life, then re-imitating art.
Plastered on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Doctor Who is hotter than ever. Seems like the perfect time to release the trailer for the upcoming, seventh season. The below embed comes from Twitchfilm.
The upcoming AMC pilot, Low Winter Sun, just added two more actors. Ruben Santiago Hudson and Athena Karkanis have joined the Mark Strong led project, whose first episode will likely be directed by Ernest Dickerson. The show, which is based on a British show Strong also starred in, is about a cop who kills a fellow cop and gets drawn into the criminal underworld despite getting away with it. Thanks to Deadline.
AMC is also close to resigning Mad Men stars January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks to lucrative new deals for two more seasons of the show. According to Deadline, their deals will likely see them each getting six digits per episode.
