EPISODE
SEASON
NewsRadio - Season 1
The workplace sitcom 'NewsRadio' explores the office politics and interpersonal relationships among the staff of WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 news radio station.
4 September 1947, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
7 December 1924, Long Beach, California, USA
22 December 1951, USA
6 July 1966, Sacramento, California, USA
May 7, 1951 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
10 November 1946, Springfield, Ohio, USA
31 December 1964, Fullerton, California, USA
21 July 1957, Tarzana, California, USA
30 December 1961, San Antonio, Texas, USA
22 March 1952, Queens, New York, USA
15 February 1968, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
20 December 1967, Detroit, Michigan, USA
16 September 1953, San Francisco, California, USA
1 September 1953, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
29 July 1950, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1967, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
8 June 1957, Windham, New York, USA
September 13, 2018
It's a well-oiled machine in the first season.
September 13, 2018
Still, NewsRadio boasts a rich setting, droll characters and some fine actors... Hartman's comic brilliance will remind you how sorely Saturday Night Live misses him.
February 27, 2018
Everybody involved needs to calm down, take a deep breath and go to work on some other show.
September 13, 2018
Always had a healthy appreciation for the eccentric and the absurd, which helped the show transcend its borrowed roots.
February 27, 2018
Hartman is already doing a brilliant job in a difficult role. After all, how does anyone do a boob anchorman without aping the definitive one, Ted Knight's Ted Baxter? But Hartman has figured out how to do it
September 13, 2018
It was clear that NewsRadio was something special. Here was a show that, rather than expecting its audience to ignore the strangeness of a multicamera sitcom and instead played into it, crafting episodes with the breakneck absurdity of classic farce.
February 27, 2018
The crispest, wittiest and most delightful new sitcom of the season making as self-assured, clever and distinctive a debut as Frasier did last season.
February 27, 2018
Where NewsRadio goes from here is anyone's guess. If slightly offbeat comedy that makes you laugh is a gauge, however, it deserves to travel a long way.
February 26, 2018
NewsRadio is a nervier, more sophisticated version of WKRP in Cincinnati, updated to a time when people are much less secure about their jobs and far more wary about each other.
September 13, 2018
This was an ensemble with talent like no other, helmed by Paul Simms, fresh off his stint at The Larry Sanders Show. Put those forces together and you have one amazing pilot.
February 27, 2018
This show benefits from thoughtful casting, an extremely talented cast, and sharp writing that plays to the actors' strengths and promotes the banter and sarcastic exchanges to keep the laughs coming.
September 13, 2018
NewsRadio was on its way to becoming one of the best sitcoms in TV history, starting with its third episode, "Smoking."
