The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.
Showing Season 3 of 4
Season 3
2005
The third season of THE NEWSROOM, like its previous incarnations, is a deep-down comic microcosm of the world at large. A tangle of a, b, c, and d plots-the show mixes love, politics, bureaucracy, equality, violence, religion, marriage, sex and hunger and, in the end, makes perfect, hilarious sense.
01. Baghdad Bound
2005-02-14
Jim gets abducted while taping a feel-good pet segment in war-torn Afghanistan, and George is on the shortlist for the Order of Canada.
02. One Dumb Idea
2005-02-21
George and his staff of segment producers have a sudden interest in producing sitcoms - at $50,000 per episode all they need is one dumb idea.
03. Dial "G" for Gristle
2005-02-28
Media tycoon Conrad Scott (Doug Lennox) visits the newsroom and is offered a life-changing gristly steak.
04. Lolita
2005-03-07
George is asked to lecture at the local university and, thanks to a bit of charm and a stolen thesis, wows the class enough to hold 'office hours'; with a very attractive, very young student, Lolita.
05. Latent Homosexual Tendencies
2005-03-21
George's therapist falls into a coma after suggesting that George has latent homosexual tendencies.
06. Learning to Fly
2005-03-28
It is the end of the world in all dimensions.
