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  • Birth Name: Samuel Atkinson Waterston
  • Birth Place: Cambridge, MA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/15/1940, Scorpio
  • Profession: Actor
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Newsroom's Olivia Munn Hopes New Girl Character Doesn't Come Between Nick and Jess

Olivia Munn is going from The Newsroom to New Girl.

The former Attack of the Show! host will pop up on the Fox comedy Tuesday as a new love interest for Nick (Jake Johnson). But fans of Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick shouldn't worry: Even Munn wants to see New Girl's best dynamic duo end up together. Still, she has a job to do, which includes bringing out a side of Nick we haven't seen before. To find out what that entails, TVGuide.com turned to Munn to get the scoop:read more

Ask Matt: The Newsroom, Glee Project, Falling Skies, True Blood, More

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Question: It seems that many TV critics (you being a notable exception) are coming down hard on The Newsroom, and I was wondering if you have an idea of why this is. Yes, it's preachy, but every Aaron Sorkin show and movie is. Successful, intelligent career women are portrayed as being driven mostly by their hormones, but that's true of every woman character on TV that's written by a man (unless played by Julianna Margulies or Connie Britton). And some of the plot contrivances (the wayward e-mails, the Bigfoot obsession, the cute blonde assistant who is smart when the plot needs her smart and dumb when the plot needs her dumb) are cringe-worthy. On the other hand, you've got a talented, likable cast ably delivering some of the snappiest dialogue on TV, which right there puts it ahead of 95 percent of everything else.

I'm not saying it's not flawed, but the pluses outweigh the minuses by quite a bit, and the show is wildly entertaining. So why the heavily negative reaction? Is Sorkin held to a higher standard? Are journalists taking more shots because the show is set in a milieu they know (a newsroom) rather than the White House? Curious on your take on this. — Rick

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Weekend TV: The Newsroom, Falling Skies, The Great Escape

There aren't enough words. Except in the world of Aaron Sorkin, where there are always enough, maybe too many, as the Emmy- and Oscar-winning maestro of the hyper-verbal aria (The West Wing, Sports Night, The Social Network) aims his sights back on TV with the exhilarating, exasperating and often sensationally entertaining The Newsroom. (It premieres Sunday at 10/9c following summer hit True Blood.)read more

Sam Waterston: Videos

'The Newsroom: Invitation to the Set' (HBO)
Law & Order: SVU
Law & Order: SVU
Newsroom: Invitation To The Set

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Le Divorce
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Le Divorce [HD]

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The Greater Fool
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The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate
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The Blackout Part I: Tragedy Porn
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Year Title Description
2012 The Newsroom TV Show Series, Actor - Charlie Skinner
2010 Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear TV Show Series, Appearing
2006 AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers TV Show Series, Appearing
2005 The Forest Where We Live TV Show Series, Narrator
2003 Le Divorce Movie, Actor - Chester Walker

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Inside Aaron Sorkin's New HBO Drama The Newsroom

Jeff Daniels storms out of the glass-walled conference room for the fifth time in 25 minutes. Apparently, Nancy Grace can do that to a man. Take after take, her Southern-fried commentary on the Casey Anthony murder case has been blaring on multiple television monitors around the set of a TV newsroom, and her "Oh, God, will you look at that" attitude is more than Daniels' character, Will McAvoy, can bear.

McAvoy is a veteran anchorman unraveling before our eyes on The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin's new HBO drama about... read more

The Newsroom: Aaron Sorkin Takes on the Media

In an early scene of HBO's new Aaron Sorkin drama The Newsroom, a college student asks the show's hero, Will McAvoy, why the U.S. is the best country in the world.

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 It's a vapid question, to be sure, but Will's mean-spirited answer — he says simply that it isn't, and then rattles off a withering, Sorkinian litany of statistics about literacy, life expectancy and infant mortality that prove his point — is both electrifying and kind of depressing.

Will (Jeff Daniels, in his first TV series role) is a moderate Republican cable news anchor whose show, "News Night," has succeeded in the ratings because Will has played it safe, journalistically speaking. (One critic calls him the "Jay Leno of news anchors.") When we first meet him, he's in a rut, and his staff, none too impressed with his very public tantrum, has decided to seek other employment.... read more

VIDEO: Meet the Newsnight 2.0 Team in The Newsroom Trailer

Now this feels more like an Aaron Sorkin show.

A new trailer for his upcoming HBO series The Newsroom strikes a considerably different tone than that of the first, in which brash news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) has a Howard Beale-like meltdown. But Trailer No. 2 shows it's not all ...
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The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg Heads to Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom

Jesse Eisenberg will reunite with The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin in his new HBO drama The Newsroom, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Eisenberg, who portrayed Mark Zuckerberg in the Oscar nominated film, has landed... read more

HBO Sets Premiere Dates For True Blood and New Series Newsroom

True Blood's fifth season will premiere on Sunday, June 10 at 9/8c, HBO announced Wednesday.

This season will be the last for showrunner Alan Ball, who has been with the show since it debuted in 2009.
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