Running throughout are regular datelines, starting with the weekend of the Challenger disaster in February 1986 and progressing through to Chernobyl the following April. This timeline isn't just adding handy topical references: these are the plum news events that stir the journalists' blood, rouse them from their hangovers and rev up their sex drives.  The titular newsreader (we assume from the early episodes) is Helen Norville, played by Anna Torv, previously seen in Fringe. Helen is a glamorous presenter in the young Barbara Walters vein, with an older, gnarly co-anchor, Geoff Walters (Robert Taylor, pictured below).

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