| The Newsroom | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Ken Finkleman |
| Starring | Ken Finkleman Peter Keleghan Mark Farrell Jeremy Hotz Karen Hines Tanya Allen Matt Watts Holly Lewis |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Ken Finkleman Jan Peter Meyboom |
| Editor | Allan Novak |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | approx. 22 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC Television |
| Release | 1996 – 2005 |
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The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996–97, 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002.
The show is set in the newsroom of a television station which is never officially named, but is generally understood to be based on CBC's own Toronto affiliate CBLT. Inspired by American series The Larry Sanders Show[1] and similar to such earlier series as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline, the series mines a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and the sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing the fictional City Hour, the station's nightly newscast.