Emmy-winning "The West Wing" creator and Syracuse University alumnus Aaron Sorkin returns to TV with a new drama, "The Newsroom," on HBO. The fast-paced, behind-the-scenes look at a nightly news production premiered Sunday night with a well-rounded cast that includes Jeff Daniels (as Will McAvoy, "the Jay Leno of news anchors"), Emily Mortimer (as his ex-girlfriend and new executive producer MacKenzie McHale) and Sam Waterston (as the slightly alcoholic cable-news-division president Charlie Skinner).

The first episode of "The Newsroom," titled "Because We Decided To," sets the scene for the series and establishes some supporting cast members like Alison Pill (as Maggie, er, Margaret, er, "Ellen") and "Slumdog Millionaire" star Dev Patel (as McAvoy's blog writer Neal). McAvoy's staff has left after his public rant about whether America is the greatest country in the world went viral, forcing a new team of producers to join him on the night one of 2010's biggest stories broke: the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

滬江娛樂(lè)快訊：講述傳媒人故事的夏季美劇《新聞編輯室》（《Newsroom》）6月24日首播，最終收視人數(shù)只有210萬(wàn)。但極強(qiáng)的話題性和制作陣容深得中國(guó)媒體從業(yè)者的喜愛(ài)。這部劇的編劇是創(chuàng)作過(guò)《社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)》《白宮西廂》的艾倫·索金。由于每集制作費(fèi)高達(dá)200萬(wàn)美元，開(kāi)播前被視為今夏熒屏的最重磅之作。

《新聞編輯室》的故事發(fā)生在一個(gè)虛構(gòu)的電視臺(tái)ACN里，主人公威爾·麥克阿里斯特是一家有線電視網(wǎng)黃金檔新聞節(jié)目的主播，在前任領(lǐng)導(dǎo)調(diào)職之后，被安排到一檔新的夜間節(jié)目任職，并需要和陌生的節(jié)目制片人合作，也使得直播室的人際關(guān)系錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜。該劇第一季計(jì)劃制作10集，每集都以一個(gè)真實(shí)的新聞事件為切入口，探討個(gè)個(gè)媒體人在這些事件面前的態(tài)度、私生活等問(wèn)題以及主觀傾向性與新聞報(bào)道之間的關(guān)聯(lián)。第一集就選擇了2010年突發(fā)的墨西哥灣漏油事件。

對(duì)于該劇，北美31家媒體除了一個(gè)滿分、一個(gè)零分，平均只有57分。評(píng)論界對(duì)其表現(xiàn)毀譽(yù)參半，優(yōu)點(diǎn)是“對(duì)白呈現(xiàn)出巨大的信息量，看得人激情澎湃?！倍秉c(diǎn)則是“說(shuō)教味太濃”?？雌饋?lái)這是一部令人很矛盾的劇集，還需要繼續(xù)觀察。