Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Show Finally Has a Name

HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Writer Aaron Sorkin arrives at the Peter Travers and Editors of Rolling Stone Host Awards Weekend Bash at Drai’s Hollywood on February 26, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Rolling Stone) Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Rolling Stone/2011 Getty Images

Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO show about the goings-on at a cable news network was originally called More as the Story Develops, but for the last several months, it’s languished without a title. (Perhaps the network found that “More as the Story Develops” sounds great when delivered in Sorkin’s trademark rat-a-tat manner, but less smooth when uttered by a potential viewer?) Today, though, HBO released a trailer that briefly touts its 2012 slate of shows, and Deadline noticed that over a single shot of Sorkin’s star Jeff Daniels, there was now a title: The Newsroom. Do not celebrate this news morsel by smashing your face into a mirror, as Sorkin himself is sometimes wont to do.

Aaron Sorkin’s HBO Show Finally Has a Name