TV Bits: ‘The Newsroom,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘Glee’
One of the most anticipated trailers of the year, one of the most controversial shows currently on air and updates on several popular programs all in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump read about the following:
Aaron Sorkin, head writer and creator of HBO’sThe 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 may head toGawkerto 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’sEntertainment Weekly,Doctor Whois hotter than ever. Seems like the perfect time to release the trailer for the upcoming, seventh season. The below embed comes fromTwitchfilm.
The upcoming AMC pilot,Low Winter Sun, just added two more actors.Ruben Santiago HudsonandAthena Karkanishave joined theMark Strongled project, whose first episode will likely be directed byErnest 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 toDeadline.
AMC is also close to resigningMad MenstarsJanuary Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth MossandChristina Hendricksto lucrative new deals for two more seasons of the show. According toDeadline, their deals will likely see them each getting six digits per episode.
Will Arnett,aka Gob Bluth, spoke about the upcoming fourth season ofArrested Developmentat the Television Critics Associations. He said he has yet to shoot his scenes, but had read several scripts and was very happy for them. He also confirmed that the character-centric structure of the season doesn’t mean other characters won’t appear in each other’s episodes and creatorMitch Hurwitzwas in the process of figuring out shooting scheduled based around the cast’s previous engagements. Read more atScreenCrush.GleecreatorRyan Murphyrecently tweeted the below clip, which was finished but cut out of the third season of the hit, singing Fox show. Thanks toTV Line.
