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PBS’ Tense, Twisty ‘Deadlock’ Offers New Model for News by Reviving Time-Honored Format
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor TV’s newest political potboiler is more erudite than “The West Wing” and more intense than “24” — and it’s coming to, of all places, PBS. In “Deadlock,” an assemblage of government officials, politicos, clergy and media convenes to hash out — in real time — the fallout from a presidential election fraught with threats of misinformation, legal imbroglios and protests. Aaron Tang, a professor at UC Davis School of Law, guides such notables as Jeh C.
