Aaron Sorkin's Fictional Cable Network Gets a Name: Atlantis Cable News
Our cousins over at TVNewser dug up some interesting details today on Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show The Newsroom–about the cable news biz. Turns out a new name has been given to the fictional network at the heart of the show: Atlantis Cable News. Sorkin’s script originally called the channel UBS in honor of the great film Network. But for branding reasons, the change was made.
HBO has commisioned a fake news website back the new name: www.atlantiscablenews.com.
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