THE NEWSROOM SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! 

Now you hear my brand spanking new and expensive recording equipment … now you don’t! Crying emojis for days. 

This is like a comprehensive Aaron Sorkin episode, we cover everything. Well, in a very CCCAH way we cover everything. We comprehensively cover everything related to our feelings about Aaron Sorkin … in relation to this pilot, primarily. But we could not get round to my feelings on A Few Good Men or The West Wing in full or Christopher’s feelings on Moneyball or Molly’s Game in full. But like all good things with the CCCAH … we may or may not get round to them eventually. It is entirely at the discretion of the pitcher. Whoever has the pitching ball or throwing object in their adjudicated and cordoned-off area of pitching.  

Don’t piss me off with your BBCs and Sky Atlantics and HBOs and Chat GPTs, just buy a thing for fucks sake. The extras (including the audio commentary referred to in the episode today and does not seem to be hiding anywhere online as a little audio file) are a thing to behold: https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/blu-ray/the-newsroom-the-complete-series

You can watch Aaron Sorkin’s first foray into television “Sports Night” in full on YouTube! The whole damn show is here in a nice and handy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXXN2_wcRIfIGD_tbwmhvr8WnDEE4zNS

You can watch the theme song of The Big Bang Theory here just like I did … something something everything everywhere sitcom characters on a couch, good. That was the gist of it. For what the show is, it didn’t suck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjF0-T45dQ

You can watch, listen to and otherwise enjoy the theme song of The Newsroom here. I enjoyed it just fine. Christopher almost docked it a FULL ON POINT might be his hottest take of all time if he’d stuck to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yulGicUzS4

Strictly theme song baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_YIfXw77yQ

Speaking of, here is some juicy Strictly goss: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/strictly-come-dancing-tess-daly-holly-willoughby-b2858011.html

The Guardian Review of Lily Allen’s new album is here. Is it more about music or David Harbour? Let’s all find out together and give it a read and maybe even listen to the album (that’s right, even if it continues to go unpitched): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/24/lily-allen-west-end-girl-a-gobsmacking-autopsy-of-marital-betrayal

Jeff Daniels spoke about how much his speech in the opening scene of The Newsroom saved his career: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/jeff-daniels-hbo-newsroom-speech-saved-career-1235033615/

Read the speech here: https://speakola.com/movie/jeff-daniels-sorkin-newsroom-2012

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher said “that could be a lie, I’m just saying it for “effect” like it “could” be you know hahaha! And of course the confusion between Integrated Development Environment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Acronyms can be tricky man. We know all about that here on the CCCAH!

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

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