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The Newsroom

Season 2 2004
TV-MA

  • 2004-01-13T01:30:00Z on CBC Television
  • 23m
  • 4h 59m (13 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
Fans who have long awaited the return of the show's clever and provocative satire will not be disappointed to see George Findlay and his staff back in the newsroom, where pettiness and moral bankruptcy are taken to new depths.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2004-01-13T01:30:00Z

2x01 America, America

Season Premiere

2x01 America, America

  • 2004-01-13T01:30:00Z23m

Jim is hired away by a hot US morning show in New York City where he bites off more than he can chew of the Big Apple and is soon escorted out of the country by the authorities.

2004-01-20T01:30:00Z

2x02 Death 1, George 0

2x02 Death 1, George 0

  • 2004-01-20T01:30:00Z23m

George fails a Kafkaesque job evaluation in ways he never could have imagined. A valued veteran newsroom employee dies. George's empathy is qualified.

Has a terrorist infiltrated the newsroom? Ken Finkleman and his crew handle the issue of racism with their usual warmth and sensitivity.

2004-02-03T01:30:00Z

2x04 An Enormous Waste of Time

A sniper kills again. A dog dies in the office, a power lunch goes wrong and George regrets ever having used the handicapped washroom.

2004-02-10T01:30:00Z

2x05 Anchors Away

2x05 Anchors Away

  • 2004-02-10T01:30:00Z23m

George's dream date is just that: nothing more than a dream. The intelligent segment producer Karen dumbs herself down for sex and Jim makes a book deal.

2004-02-17T01:30:00Z

2x06 One of Us

2x06 One of Us

  • 2004-02-17T01:30:00Z23m

George hires a temp from an old established WASP family thinking that connections will pay off. When they don't, it's George that pays.

2004-03-02T01:30:00Z

2x07 Never Read Symptoms

2x07 Never Read Symptoms

  • 2004-03-02T01:30:00Z23m

George dodges jury duty in an animal rights case and ends up entangled with a virus-infected monkey. Allan suffers from prostate cancer, Alzheimer's and a brain tumor.

2004-03-09T01:30:00Z

2x08 The Fifty

2x08 The Fifty

  • 2004-03-09T01:30:00Z23m

An argument between George and Alex over finding a $50 bill results in Alex losing his job on principle and then buying it back from George for a considerable sum - also on principle.

2004-03-16T01:30:00Z

2x09 Slow Leak

2x09 Slow Leak

  • 2004-03-16T01:30:00Z23m

Jim finds the perfect woman who is also heir to an $800 million fortune. This makes George insane with jealousy and leads to his arrest for stealing expensive cherries at a high-end grocery store.

2004-03-23T01:30:00Z

2x10 Reality Strikes

2x10 Reality Strikes

  • 2004-03-23T01:30:00Z23m

When a documentary film crew invades the newsroom, George keeps one eye on the camera and one eye on his back. Colm Feore guest stars.

2004-04-06T00:30:00Z

2x11 Say Cheese

2x11 Say Cheese

  • 2004-04-06T00:30:00Z23m

George tries to sell a brilliant idea for a cheese commercial to an ad agency brought in to rework the network news brand. Jim develops a unique form of anorexia nervosa.

2004-04-13T00:30:00Z

2x12 The British Accent

2x12 The British Accent

  • 2004-04-13T00:30:00Z23m

George hustles a corporate paid vacation but his temporary replacement forces George to kill the trip and replace it with a tanning cream which leads to fears that he has developed liver failure.

Season Finale

2004-04-20T00:30:00Z

2x13 The Second Coming

Season Finale

2x13 The Second Coming

  • 2004-04-20T00:30:00Z23m

George's failure of empathy when Alex gets dumped by his girlfriend causes Alex's attempted suicide. When George tries to rectify the situation, Alex fabricates a major news story, which leads to George making a book deal on the entire incident.

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