![]() Michael Lucas wanted to start his newsroom canvas with a big event that made an impact on him. “ The first news story I have vivid memories of was the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986,” opened Lucas. The relationship between Dale and Anna was fleshed out as a drama long before the series was going to be set in a newsroom. Creator Michael Lucas ( Offspring) spoke to Creative Screenwriting Magazine about what makes this show so special. Set in Australia in 1986, the Dale and Helen relationship is more than trying to keep a workplace affair private. And then, along comes a show like The Newsreader which focuses on the unfolding intimate relationship between an ambitious young TV reporter, Dale Jennings (Sam Reid), and the “difficult” star female news anchor, Helen Norville (Anna Torv). Phones ringing, typing scoops, frantically touching up makeup seconds before readers go to air, sending out camera crews to cover a news breaking story… and off course, the internal politics and contrast between the on and off air behaviors of the newsreaders. Television shows about the inner sanctum of a hectic newsroom are hardly new.
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