News Night 2.0

This article is about an episode of the US political drama The Newsroom. For the news and current affairs programme from the BBC, see Newsnight. For the CNN news programme, see NewsNight with Aaron Brown. For the Australian programme formerly NewsNight, see Reporting Live.

"News Night 2.0" is the second episode of the first season of the HBO television series The Newsroom, which originally aired July 1, 2012. The episode was written by series creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin and directed by Alex Graves.

"News Night 2.0"
The Newsroom episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 2
Directed by	Alex Graves
Written by	Aaron Sorkin
Original air date	July 1, 2012 (2012-07-01)
Running time	55 minutes
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Plot

Mac (Emily Mortimer) asserts control over the new incarnation of News Night and enlists Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn), to do a nightly segment. Jim takes the fall for Maggie's mistake when doing the prep work for a report on SB 1070; The episode takes place on Friday, April 23, 2010.

Reception

Ratings

In its original American broadcast, "News Night 2.0" was seen by an estimated 1.68 million household viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.^[1]

Reviews

Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club graded the episode with a C, stating "News Night 2.0" is mostly Bad Sorkin, teeing up too many opportunities for soapboxing and idealist proclamations while missing the verve of professionals actually putting together a news story."^[2] Alan Sepinwall compared it to the pilot episode, stating "News Night 2.0" unfortunately magnified many of the problems I had with that first episode, while losing some of the elements (Mac being in complete command even in such an untenable situation, the staff coming together to do a kick-ass newscast) I had liked the most."^[3]