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HBO has released a trailer for the new drama series The Newsroom , Aaron Sorkin's behind-the-scenes show about cable news. Sorkin has an uneven history in television, having created two well-regarded shows, one a hit ( The West Wing ) and one not ( Sports Night ), as well as one that had a great pilot and was genuinely terrible after that ( Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip ). He's also written lots of movies: The American President , Malice (which is underappreciated and kind of great, by the way), A Few Good Men , The Social Network , and Moneyball . But it's his history in TV that echoes most strongly through this preview, unsurprisingly enough. The new trailer is, if nothing else, unrelentingly ... Sorkin-y, if we can invent that term.

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It didn't take long for 'New Girl' to establish itself as the fall's most solid (and charming) hit, and Zooey Deschanel's lead character, Jess, also wasted no time in finding herself an equally dorky love interest. In Tuesday's episode of the Fox comedy, Jess has decided to sleep with her new boyfriend, Paul (Justin Long), but she's worried that, having just emerged from a long relationship, ...