I want to write a TV show. about a newspaper. old auburn ave feel. and i want it to be about stuff like urban sprawl. regentrification. innercity and outercity politics. mass transit. drug trade. death penalty. prison industrial complex. gay marriage/gay adoption/gay gayness. passing the torch. family dynamics. interracial marriage. suburbia. downtown. and more…
1st season- 7 characters introduced.
1 patriarch (owner of the newspaper)
2 his daughter (researcher, fact checker)
3 his son-in-law (new politician who wants to trade on newspaper contacts and history, idealist)
4 his wife (senior editor, has to be Alfre Woodard)
5 idealist beat reporter (just married, moving from downtown to suburbia)
6 new kid (writer who by mistake but with writing genius brought down a local political ‘gang’ with a series of articles on personal blog)
7 ?? (maybe six is enough)
I also want Tina Marjorino in it…