Digital Copy Year 2014 Video Release 2014-11-04 Studio HBO Home Entertainment Genre TV Series MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Smart, topical, thought-provoking and highly entertaining, The Newsroom, created by Aaron Sorkin The Social Network and executive produced by Sorkin, Scott Rudin and Alan Poul, takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional Atlantis Cable News ACN Network, focusing on the on- and off-camera lives of its acerbic anchor Jeff Daniels , executive producer Emily Mortimer , their newsroom staff John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and others , news-division boss Sam Waterston and parent-company CEO Jane Fonda . Season 2 will take place over a five-day period leading up to Election Day 2012, and will encompass numerous flashbacks to earlier events from 2011 and 2012. One of the season's major story arcs involves a wrongful-termination lawsuit made by a staff member alleged to have doctored a report about a suspicious U.S. drone strike. As details about the suit's origin and aftermath emerge, The Newsroom team continues its quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles, and their personal entanglements.