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The Newsroom season 2 spoilers: Lauren Tom to appear in 2 episodes

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Supernatural star, Lauren Tom has joined the cast of The Newsroom for its forthcoming second season.

The Newsroom is set to return to HBO this summer, in which Tom will appear in two episodes as Kathy Ling.
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The Newsroom season 2 spoilers: Jim returns as a field reporter on the Romney campaign

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HBO has released a brand new promo video for the second season of The Newsroom, which is set to premiere this June.

Unlike the first season, the storyline that is set in the first episode will serve as a thread throughout the whole run.
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The Newsroom, House Of Lies & Smash return for season 2 in UK (SPOILERS)

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As part of the channel’s strategy to bring the most compelling stories exclusively to Sky customers, Sky Atlantic HD today announce plans to premiere the eagerly anticipated second seasons of US shows The Newsroom, House Of Lies, & Smash this summer.

With their debut seasons garnering award wins and nominations for cast and crew at the Golden Globes®, Primetime Emmy® and Grammy Awards, the welcome return of these three shows this summer further demonstrates Sky Atlantic HD’s commitment to bringing world-class entertainment from the finest talent from both on and off screen exclusively to Sky customers.

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Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom on Sky Atlantic: Episode 1 Review – Jeff Daniels shines in The West Wing mark two!

In some people’s eyes Aaron Sorkin can do little wrong, the writer and creator of The West Wing has more recently found success on the big screen with both Moneyball and The Social Network with the latter winning him an Oscar. Now he’s back on the small-screen with The Newsroom, a look at the people who front current affairs shows and those who make sure that these programmes run smoothly. As with all of Sorkin’s recent works The Newsroom looks at the inadequacies in American life and specifically here the way the reporting of the news has changed over the years in order for the networks to achieve higher ratings. Jeff Daniels stars as Will McAvoy, the anchor of News Night who is loved by his viewers as he is seen as a placid figure who is partisan in his political beliefs and answers hard-hitting questions with witty retorts.

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This Week’s TV Highlights: Superstar, Thelma’s Gypsy Girls, Twenty Twelve, The Newsroom, Case Sensitive

So now the football is finished and the tennis has almost come to an end it seems that there are tons of new shows kicking off this week so it’s been a struggle to whittle them down to five however below are my final choices.

Superstar (ITV1, Sat 7:25pm & Sun,8pm)
Saturday nights have seemed awfully quiet since The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent left us back in May thankfully until The X-Factor returns we have a stopgap in the form of Superstar. In fact it does seem that Superstar has been coming for a long time now ever since Andrew Lloyd-Webber announced his intention of finding a lead to his new production of Jesus Christ Superstar which is set to open at the 02. It seems that his Lordship has defected to ITV after several years of finding talent on BBC1 but maybe this time the casting process is a little bit too controversial for the Beeb so Graham Norton has been replaced by Amanada Holden as the host of this endeavour.

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