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The Newsroom

All Episodes 1996 - 2005
TV-MA

  • Ended
  • #<Network:0x00007fb6185b44d0>
  • 1996-10-22T00:30:00Z
  • 23m
  • 12h 52m (32 episodes)
  • Ken Finkleman
  • Canada
  • English
  • CBC
  • Comedy, Drama
The tumultuous TV newsroom world of overbearing regional news director George Findlay, who is solely motivated by casualty statistics which will improve his ratings.

36 episodes

Jim Walcott has awakened from his 2 year coma and is ready to return to the news anchor chair, much to the chagrin of Diane Gordon the new Anchor. George has his hands full working around the movie being shot in the building starring Brad Pitt & Nicole Kidman. When George feels that the executives in the tower are plotting against him he asks his assistant to borrow some of the Chairman's mail.

Series Premiere

1996-10-22T00:30:00Z

1x01 The Walking Shoe Incident

Series Premiere

1x01 The Walking Shoe Incident

  • 1996-10-22T00:30:00Z24m

George needs to hire an assistant to take care of such pressing matters as returning his shoes and fetching bran muffins. But he faces a dilemma; should he hire the qualified African-Canadian lesbian or the inexperienced yet attractive ski bunny?

1996-10-29T01:30:00Z

1x02 Dinner at Eight

1x02 Dinner at Eight

  • 1996-10-29T01:30:00Z24m

When a sexy new co-anchor is hired to bring life back to the show, Jim feels threatened. He turns to George, who supports him pharmaceutically. However, when the ensuing power shift starts to affect George, it's time to fight dirty.

1996-11-05T01:30:00Z

1x03 Deeper, Deeper

1x03 Deeper, Deeper

  • 1996-11-05T01:30:00Z24m

Cutbacks are coming to the network; but who will it be? George vows to 'go to the wall' to save jobs but everyone knows someone has to go. Back-stabbing, clandestine job hunts, prostitutes and religious conversions prevail.

1996-11-12T01:30:00Z

1x04 The Kevorkian Joke

1x04 The Kevorkian Joke

  • 1996-11-12T01:30:00Z24m

When failed screenwriter Shane threatens suicide on tape, George turns it into a ratings booster. Also, a killer virus in Zaire could be hitting town - maybe even the newsroom.

1996-11-19T01:30:00Z

1x05 A Bad Day

1x05 A Bad Day

  • 1996-11-19T01:30:00Z24m

George is having a bad day: he’s in trouble for hitting on a woman half his age, he made derogatory comments about Mr.Dressup, he offends Linda McQuaig (as herself) and she walks off the show, suicidal Shane is back, his BMW needs a new muffler, and Jim tells more than he should to a documentary crew (led by Dan Redican).

1996-11-26T01:30:00Z

1x06 Petty Tyranny

1x06 Petty Tyranny

  • 1996-11-26T01:30:00Z24m

George's quest for the perfect bran muffin leads him to the cafeteria where he starts a fight with the cook. Later, he offends one of the country's top stars, Cynthia Dale (as herself), who is observing the newsroom as research for a role in a film.

1997-02-11T01:30:00Z

1x07 Dis and Dat

1x07 Dis and Dat

  • 1997-02-11T01:30:00Z24m

George's quest for an indoor parking spot is thwarted when the Corporation hires Gillian Soros (Elisa Moolecherry) as the new head of regional programming. Gillian has definite ideas about George and the Toronto News.

1997-02-18T01:30:00Z

1x08 Unity

1x08 Unity

  • 1997-02-18T01:30:00Z24m

George is annoyed when his name is left off the Globe and Mail list of government employees who make over $100,000 per year. Lise Leger (Guylaine St. Onge) appears on Toronto News with Linda McQuaig (as herself) to discuss the Canadian unity situation. Lise is inexplicably attracted to Jim.

1997-02-25T01:30:00Z

1x09 Parking

1x09 Parking

  • 1997-02-25T01:30:00Z24m

George’s crusade for an indoor parking space continues, George’s paranoia surfaces after he receives a mysterious and vague voicemail and his office couch disappears. He immediately assumes the worst: the Corporation wants him gone.

1997-03-04T01:30:00Z

1x10 Meltdown (1)

1x10 Meltdown (1)

  • 1997-03-04T01:30:00Z24m

When there is a potential nuclear accident only hours away, each of the newsroom staff react in their own way. David Cronenberg (as himself) is a guest on Toronto News to promote his latest film 'Crash’.

1997-03-18T01:30:00Z

1x11 Meltdown (2)

1x11 Meltdown (2)

  • 1997-03-18T01:30:00Z24m

With the potential nuclear meltdown approaching, George’s priority is finding the right experts and analysts while trying to make them real but entertaining.

1997-03-25T01:30:00Z

1x12 Meltdown (3)

1x12 Meltdown (3)

  • 1997-03-25T01:30:00Z24m

Unable to deal with the potential of how own death, George goes to into denial and can't cover the impending nuclear meltdown story.

Season Finale

1997-04-01T01:30:00Z

1x13 Campaign

Season Finale

1x13 Campaign

  • 1997-04-01T01:30:00Z47m

After the collapse of public broadcasting, Jim runs for political office in a provincial election, George and some of the newsroom staff manage the campaign in this one hour series finale.

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.

Season Premiere

2005-02-15T01:30:00Z

3x01 Baghdad Bound

Season Premiere

3x01 Baghdad Bound

  • 2005-02-15T01:30:00Z23m

Jim gets abducted while taping a feel-good pet segment in war-torn Afghanistan, and George is on the shortlist for the Order of Canada.

2005-02-22T01:30:00Z

3x02 One Dumb Idea

3x02 One Dumb Idea

  • 2005-02-22T01:30:00Z23m

George and his staff of segment producers have a sudden interest in producing sitcoms - at $50,000 per episode all they need is one dumb idea.

2005-03-01T01:30:00Z

3x03 Dial "G" for Gristle

3x03 Dial "G" for Gristle

  • 2005-03-01T01:30:00Z23m

Media tycoon Conrad Scott (Doug Lennox) visits the newsroom and is offered a life-changing gristly steak.

2005-03-08T01:30:00Z

3x04 Lolita

3x04 Lolita

  • 2005-03-08T01:30:00Z23m

George is asked to lecture at the local university and, thanks to a bit of charm and a stolen thesis, wows the class enough to hold 'office hours'; with a very attractive, very young student, Lolita.

George's therapist falls into a coma after suggesting that George has latent homosexual tendencies.

Season Finale

2005-03-29T01:30:00Z

3x06 Learning to Fly

Season Finale

3x06 Learning to Fly

  • 2005-03-29T01:30:00Z23m

It is the end of the world in all dimensions.

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