Aaron Sorkin has been making the rounds with the press in promotion of his just premiered new series on HBO: The Newsroom. Writers, directors and actors often deal out high praise for the premium cable network when given the chance. HBO has always been a place where artists and creators have been allowed to flourish with little concern for the normal constraints of television production such as censorship, craven advertisers or budget constraints. Aaron Sorkin, a notable wordsmith himself seems to harbor similar sentiments. In a public interview on HBO’s Connect, Sorkin was asked several questions to which he answered with his unbridled love for HBO:
A. Sorkin: “I love series television and HBO is a fantastic home for writers, actors and directors. They’re in business with the audience and not advertisers so the emphasis is less on how many people are watching than it is on how much the people who ARE watching like what they’re seeing.”
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