Gallagher Jr., who plays the noble, startlingly well-connected (when it comes to Halliburton) Jim on Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom, offered the following mini-spoiler to E! News:
Aaron found out that Jeff is also a singer/songwriter and he puts out his own records and then he found out that I play guitar and sing,†Gallagher said. “So, one day, he said, ‘Oh, there’s going to be an episode when you and Jeff are jamming.’ I thought he was kidding, but two weeks later I found out that he wasn’t kidding and that he had worked it into the script.â€
First things first: Who did the musical supervision on Newsroom, and how do you think those individuals felt when they got to work every day? (This Radiohead quote might provide some insight.) Second: What song do we think Aaron Sorkin picked for the Daniels-Gallagher “jam� Did he go the obvious Gilbert and Sullivan route? Or are we going to keep the 2010 theme going musically? “Tik Tok� “Teenage Dream� “What’s My Name?�! Oh, please let Jeff Daniels do the Drake verse.