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Tuesday 27 February 2018
Hulu asks: ‘Is it time to examine how 9/11 happened?’

By MARK KENNEDY to leave the country,” said
AP Entertainment Writer Sarsgaard.
NEW YORK (AP) — Not too “Presumably enough time
long ago, Peter Sarsgaard has passed now that we
felt he had to have a dif- can start thinking about
ficult conversation with his what went wrong, right?”
oldest daughter about Dan Futterman, the series’
9/11. show runner who wrote
He and Ramona, then 9, teleplays for the first two
were in a car on the an- episodes, said the 10-hour
niversary of the terror at- show tries to explain with-
tacks and the twin light out judgment what mo-
beams above ground zero tivates the three groups
were switched on. The girl — CIA, FBI and al-Qaida —
declared them “pretty.” even portraying members
That’s when her dad real- of the terrorist group as hu-
ized he needed to explain man beings. “That may be
what they were, right then the worst pushback we
and there. She’s not alone. get,” he said.
“There is a whole genera- Wrenn Schmidt, who plays
tion of people that are in a workaholic and ambi-
their late teens — that are tious CIA analyst in a very
20 even, if they were 3 at male-centered organiza-
the time — who I think need This image released by Hulu shows Jeff Daniels, left, and Tahar Rahim in a scene from “The Looming tion, said she came out of
to start learning about this Tower.” a 10-part series chronicling events leading to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. the experience with en-
in some way,” he said. Associated Press hanced respect for intel-
This month, Sarsgaard is Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-win- ures in the CIA and FBI as of 9/11, no one wanted to ligence gatherers working
doing that, teaching on ning book of the same ti- they chase down clues — hear if there was someone in the shadows. But she ap-
a massive scale as one tle, sent film crews to eight and often jostle each other to blame. We knew who to preciates the series’ care
of the stars of “The Loom- countries, including Mo- — to uncover Osama bin blame — it was bin Laden for balance.
ing Tower,” Hulu’s power- rocco and South Africa. It Laden’s plot and stop it. and al-Qaida.” The filmmakers have taken
ful look at the events that signals Hulu’s deepening The series is brutal about Sarsgaard, who plays a some dramatic liberties,
led up to the al-Qaida-led effort to offer complex, in- the missed opportunities reptilian CIA anti-terrorism including making Sars-
2001 attacks, a series that is teresting offerings following and rivalries between the chief, knows all too well gaard’s character a com-
as much a thriller as a geo- its success with “The Hand- agencies and doesn’t how dangerous wading posite of several CIA ana-
political education. maid’s Tale.” flinch at showing violence into the subject of 9/11 lysts.
The 10-episode miniseries, “The Looming Tower” starts to innocents, both at home blame can be. His wife, “We didn’t get a lot of
adapted from Lawrence in 1988 and charts key fig- and abroad. Maggie Gyllenhaal, creat- access to the CIA, so in a
“I wonder if because 17 ed a firestorm in 2005 when way it was necessary to
years have past almost, she suggested that U.S. for- do that,” Futterman said.
whether we’re ready for eign policy might have had But Daniels’ hot-headed
it now,” said Jeff Daniels, some role in the attacks. O’Neill is based on a real
who stars as hard-charging “The backlash was so mas- person, a man the actor
FBI agent John O’Neill. sive — it was on CNN, it was calls “an unsung American
“Closer to the actual attack on everywhere — we had hero.”q

CBS launching a 24-hour streaming

sports news network

on CBSSports.com; the CBS
Sports app for key con-
nected TV devices includ-
ing Amazon Fire TV, Apple
TV and Roku; the CBS Sports
mobile app for iOS and An-
droid; CBSN and the CBS
All Access subscription ser-
vice.
This May 10, 2017, file photo, shows the CBS logo at their The announcement comes
broadcast center in New York. CBS Corp. is rolling out a 24-hour as ESPN continues to
streaming sports news network that will feature the day’s top struggle, cutting staff as
news, highlights and analysis. it shifts its focus to digital.
The 38-year-old network
By The Associated Press day the network will have a has been squeezed by ris-
CBS Corp. is rolling out a 24- DVR-like functionality that ing fees to broadcast live
hour streaming sports news allows viewers to watch events. ESPN also has lost
network that will feature previous segments and about 10 million subscribers
the day’s top news, high- jump back into live pro- during the past six years,
lights and analysis. gramming seamlessly. based on estimates by
The company said Mon- CBS Sports HQ is available Nielsen Media Research.q