I'll watch it if the reviews are good, but the idea for the beginning is lifted directly from Studio 60.
Which was directly lifted from Network.
Which was one of the best films of the 20th century.
Every one of Sorkin's shows starts with some version of this, even if seen from another angle. And yeah it's really all about Network. On Studio 60 they talk about it a lot in the fictional news in the first episode.
Well, Sports Night doesn't, but the character is sort of on the way to giving it and then gets talked down. But yeah, all of them even the West Wing (though it happens before the start of the episode) start with this plot device.How many times is Sorkin gonna start a series with a media-changing monologue?