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girl, you're a dandelion ([personal profile] sarken) wrote in [community profile] moreasthestorydevelops2011-02-17 08:40 pm
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Article in The Daily

Today, The Daily had an article about the new series, including character names and details from the pilot episode.

The text at that link is actually a picture, so here it is in a more readable format.

'Olbermann' show
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Flash's sneak peek at new Sorkin pilot reveals familiar lefty grump

Keith Olbermann, call your lawyer.

According to a script obtained by Flash, Will McCallister -- the main character in the much buzzed-about Aaron Sorkin pilot for HBO -- is a gasbag cable news host who bears more than a passing resemblance.

Sorkin spent time on the set of MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" while researching his untitled show. Like Olbermann, McCallister is an outspoken liberal who has an inbox full of hate mail and a reputation for being difficult. "Are you telling me bin Laden is a nicer guy to work for than I am?" McCallister asks a colleague.

McCallister taunts his network's president, "I generate an annual profit of $120 million on my own."

McCallister's "News Night" leads his network's ratings, just as Olbermann topped the MSNBC lineup before he quit last month to head up Al Gore's ratings-challenged Current TV.

The episode opens with McCallister, fresh off a St. Lucia getaway with ESPN hottie Erin Andrews, finding out his longest serving executive producer (14 weeks!) has dumped him.

The leading lady is McCallister's former lover Mackenzie McHale, who's been hired as his new exec producer on the day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes off the Louisiana coast. Does McCallister come out swinging hard against Halliburton and BP? Are there love triangles to be played out in the newsroom bullpen? Of course.
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[personal profile] twtd 2011-02-18 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I really, really think that Sorkin has a gigantic crush on Keith. This is, essintially, the second show that he's based on Keith's career. You've got to think that if Keith suddenly became an astronaut, a year later we'd be hearing rumors about Sorkin doing a show about NASA.

Which I would then watch.

If only to see the spacewalk-and-talks.

Though now that I think about it, Sorkin+space shuttle seems like it has potential for awesomeness. It would be like getting to watch Galileo over and over and over again.