According to HBO, the Aaron Sorkin drama set behind the scenes of a cable news network is replacing about half of its writing staff, though one source close to the show tells The Hollywood Reporter that everyone on the show’s writing staff except for Corinne Kinsbury has been let go. News of the shakeup was first reported by The Daily.

“Every year each show reassesses the needs of its writing staffs. This process is nothing out of the ordinary,” HBO said in a statement to THR.
Sorkin (The West Wing) has a heavy hand in every episode of the series, with three out of the first four installments credited to him alone. Episode 3 was penned by former MTV News anchor Gideon Yago, who was let go in the purge.
The heavily-hyped series starring Jeff Daniels was expected to be another critical darling from the Oscar-winning Sorkin (The Social Network). But as the reviews began to trickle in in mid-June, it became clear that the drama had fallen short of the critical community’s hopes, drawing a metacritic score of 57 out of 100.

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