Capital News is a short-lived
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
drama seriesDramatic programming is television content that is scripted and fictional. This excludes, for example, sports, news, reality and game shows, stand-up comedy and variety shows...
that aired on
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
in 1990. Starring
Lloyd BridgesLloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor. Bridges starred in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.-Early life:...
,
Capital News was created by
David MilchDavid S. Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood.-Biography:...
and Christian Williams.
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Capital News is a short-lived
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
drama seriesDramatic programming is television content that is scripted and fictional. This excludes, for example, sports, news, reality and game shows, stand-up comedy and variety shows...
that aired on
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
in 1990. Starring
Lloyd BridgesLloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor. Bridges starred in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.-Early life:...
,
Capital News was created by
David MilchDavid S. Milch is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including NYPD Blue and Deadwood.-Biography:...
and Christian Williams.
Synopsis
The series focuses on the editorial stuff and writers of the
Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
-based daily news paper "Capital News" (a
fictionFiction is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events...
al journal inspiral by the actual "
Washington PostThe Washington Post is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Washington, D.C. and is the city's oldest paper, founded in 1877. Being located in the nation's capital, it has a particular emphasis on national politics and international affairs...
"). It was produced by
MTM EnterprisesMTM Enterprises was an independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. The name for the production company was drawn from Moore's initials...
.
The series consists of one TV movie (also considered as the pilot) and twelve regular episodes, of which only three were shown on its initial run in the United States, after which the
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
canceled the series.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|
Mark BlumMark Blum is an American actor in movies, on television and stage.-Career:Blum started acting on stage in the 1970s...
|
Edison King |
Lloyd BridgesLloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor. Bridges starred in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.-Early life:...
|
Jonathan 'Jo Jo' Turner |
| Christian Clemenson Christian Clemenson is an American film and television actor.-Early life:Clemenson spent his childhood in Humboldt, Iowa, as the son of drug store owners Ernest and Ruth Clemenson. In his early teens he delivered the Des Moines Register, which had a long tradition of awarding scholarships to top...
|
Todd Lunden |
Chelsea FieldChelsea Field is an American actress. She played Teela in the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. In a break from tradition and He-Man canon, she portrayed Teela as a brunette character wearing with a full costume with pants and sleeves.- Personal life :Field has been married to actor...
|
Cassy Swann |
Kurt FullerKurt Fuller is an American character actor. Fuller has appeared in a number of television, film, and stage projects....
|
Miles Plato |
| Charles Levin For the actor, see Charles Levin .Charles Leonard Levin was a Michigan jurist. He served as a Michigan Court of Appeals judge from 1966 to 1972 and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1973 to 1996.Levin's father, Theodore Levin, was a federal district court judge...
|
Vinnie DiSalvo |
| Richard Murphy |
Richie Fineberg |
| Wendell Pierce Wendell Pierce is an African-American actor, best known for his portrayal of Detective Bunk Moreland on HBO drama The Wire....
|
Conrad White |
Daniel RoebuckDaniel Randall Roebuck is an American television and movie actor, writer and producer, primarily in movies, soap operas and television.-Life and career:...
|
Haskell Epstein |
William Russ-Early life:Russ was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and is the son of a naval officer. He attended the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Michigan Cheer team, which was all male at the time.-Career:...
|
Redmond Dunne |
Helen SlaterHelen Rachel Slater is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She appeared in the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl. In the following years she starred in several very successful comedy-drama films such as Ruthless People, The Secret of My Succe$s, and City Slickers...
|
Anne McKenna |
| Michael Woods Michael Woods is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and is currently a Teachta Dála for Dublin North East, living in Kilbarrack.-Life:...
|
Clay Gibson |
Jenny WrightJennifer G. Wright is an American actress who made her film debut portraying the role of Cushie in The World According to Garp in 1982. That same year she made an appearance in Pink Floyd The Wall, playing an American groupie....
|
Doreen Duncan |
Episodes
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate |
|---|
| 1-1 |
Pilot |
April 9, 1990 |
| 1-2 |
"King for a Day" |
April 23, 1990 |
| 1-3 |
"Finished? ... Not Dunne" |
April 30, 1990 |
| 1-4 |
"Blues for Mr. White" |
Unaired |
| 1-5 |
"Tapes of Wrath" |
Unaired |
| 1-6 |
"Here Comes the Sun" |
Unaired |
| 1-7 |
"Swanns and Drakes" |
Unaired |
| 1-8 |
"Best Little Whorehouse in Virginia" |
Unaired |
| 1-9 |
"Bye Hooker, Bye Crook" |
Unaired |
| 1-10 |
"Sheel Game" |
Unaired |
| 1-11 |
"A Man's Home is His Hassle" |
Unaired |
| 1-12 |
"The Last Supper" |
Unaired |
External links
(Television movie)
- Capital News at TVGuide.com
TV Guide is a North American weekly magazine about television programming.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews. Some issues have also featured horoscope listings and crossword puzzles.-Annenberg/Triangle era: The...