The Newsroom - Season 2

First aired: 1/12/2004 13 episodes

Fans who have long awaited the return of the show's clever and provocative satire will not be disappointed to see George Findlay and his staff back in the newsroom, where pettiness and moral bankruptcy are taken to new depths.

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Episodes

1. America, America

Aired: 1/12/2004

Jim is hired away by a hot US morning show in New York City where he bites off more than he can chew of the Big Apple and is soon escorted out of the country by the authorities.

2. Death 1, George 0

Aired: 1/19/2004

George fails a Kafkaesque job evaluation in ways he never could have imagined. A valued veteran newsroom employee dies. George's empathy is qualified.

3. Pushy Money Grubbing Cosmopolitan Racist

Aired: 1/26/2004

Has a terrorist infiltrated the newsroom? Ken Finkleman and his crew handle the issue of racism with their usual warmth and sensitivity.

4. An Enormous Waste of Time

Aired: 2/2/2004

A sniper kills again. A dog dies in the office, a power lunch goes wrong and George regrets ever having used the handicapped washroom.

5. Anchors Away

Aired: 2/9/2004

George's dream date is just that: nothing more than a dream. The intelligent segment producer Karen dumbs herself down for sex and Jim makes a book deal.

6. One of Us

Aired: 2/16/2004

George hires a temp from an old established WASP family thinking that connections will pay off. When they don't, it's George that pays.

7. Never Read Symptoms

Aired: 3/1/2004

George dodges jury duty in an animal rights case and ends up entangled with a virus-infected monkey. Allan suffers from prostate cancer, Alzheimer's and a brain tumor.

8. The Fifty

Aired: 3/8/2004

An argument between George and Alex over finding a $50 bill results in Alex losing his job on principle and then buying it back from George for a considerable sum - also on principle.

9. Slow Leak

Aired: 3/15/2004

Jim finds the perfect woman who is also heir to an $800 million fortune. This makes George insane with jealousy and leads to his arrest for stealing expensive cherries at a high-end grocery store.

10. Reality Strikes

Aired: 3/22/2004

When a documentary film crew invades the newsroom, George keeps one eye on the camera and one eye on his back. Colm Feore guest stars.

11. Say Cheese

Aired: 4/5/2004

George tries to sell a brilliant idea for a cheese commercial to an ad agency brought in to rework the network news brand. Jim develops a unique form of anorexia nervosa.

12. The British Accent

Aired: 4/12/2004

George hustles a corporate paid vacation but his temporary replacement forces George to kill the trip and replace it with a tanning cream which leads to fears that he has developed liver failure.

13. The Second Coming

Aired: 4/19/2004

George's failure of empathy when Alex gets dumped by his girlfriend causes Alex's attempted suicide. When George tries to rectify the situation, Alex fabricates a major news story, which leads to George making a book deal on the entire incident.