Aaron Sorkin recently took a little time at the Tribeca Film Festival to talk about The Newsroom and how he wishes he could make a few changes.
We’re all anxiously awaiting the arrival of The Newsroom season 3 this fall, and it seems that Aaron Sorkin is anxious to see the final season of his show arrive too, but more so to show us how much better it can be.
Buzzfeed reports that while he loves the show and is proud of the work that they’ve done on the show, if he could go back and do it all over again, he would.
Sorkin addressed the crowd at the Tribeca panel, “I’m going to let you all stand in for everyone in the world, if you don’t mind. I think you and I got off on the wrong foot with The Newsroom and I apologize and I’d like to start over.” He goes on to talk about how he is never quite happy with the shows he writes, but that on a television schedule there is only so much control the writer has over their own words in a time crunch.
He believes audiences got the wrong impression about why he set the show in the recent past. “I think that there’s been a terrible misunderstanding. I did not set the show in the recent past in order to show the pros how it should have been done. That was and remains the furthest thing from my mind. I set the show in the recent past because I didn’t want to make up fake news.”
While fans of the show have probably always known that Sorkin’s intention was to create a fictional newsroom that we as an audience could relate to, his critics have always poked fun at him for trying to do the news the ‘right’ way, and has been a divisive aspect of the beloved HBO show.
He also gave us a small tidbit about one possible storyline for season 3 when he told the audience that an episode that was filming currently involves the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Whether it will be the focus of an entire episode or be used as a complicated background for our favorite staffers to reflect upon we do not know, but they will address the tragedy.
He closed the discussion with his thoughts on how season 3 is shaping up: “I’m feeling really good about how the third season is going. I’ll look back on it fondly and proudly and wish I could get every scene of every episode back so that I could do it all over again.”