
The Newsroom (1996)
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Tanya Allen as Audrey
Episodes 32
In The Newsroom
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Inside The Newsroom
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The Walking Shoe Incident
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?
Read MoreDinner at Eight
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.
Read MoreDeeper, Deeper
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.
Read MoreThe Kevorkian Joke
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.
Read MoreA Bad Day
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).
Read MorePetty Tyranny
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.
Read MoreDis and Dat
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.
Read MoreUnity
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.
Read MoreMeltdown (1)
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’.
Read MoreMeltdown (2)
With the potential nuclear meltdown approaching, George’s priority is finding the right experts and analysts while trying to make them real but entertaining.
Read MoreMeltdown (3)
Unable to deal with the potential of how own death, George goes to into denial and can't cover the impending nuclear meltdown story.
Read MoreEscape from the Newsroom
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.
Read MoreAmerica, America
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.
Read MoreDeath 1, George 0
George fails a Kafkaesque job evaluation in ways he never could have imagined. A valued veteran newsroom employee dies. George's empathy is qualified.
Read MorePushy Money Grubbing Cosmopolitan Racist
Has a terrorist infiltrated the newsroom? Ken Finkleman and his crew handle the issue of racism with their usual warmth and sensitivity.
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreAnchors Away
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.
Read MoreNever Read Symptoms
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.
Read MoreReality Strikes
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.
Read MoreSay Cheese
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.
Read MoreThe British Accent
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.
Read MoreThe Second Coming
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.
Read MoreBaghdad Bound
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.
Read MoreOne Dumb Idea
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.
Read MoreDial "G" for Gristle
Media tycoon Conrad Scott (Doug Lennox) visits the newsroom and is offered a life-changing gristly steak.
Read MoreLatent Homosexual Tendencies
George's therapist falls into a coma after suggesting that George has latent homosexual tendencies.
Read MoreLearning to Fly
It is the end of the world in all dimensions.
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