Network

Network is a 1976 satirical film directed by Sidney Lumet, in which a television network turns news anchor Howard Beale’s public breakdown into profitable programming.

Howard Beale: A fictional television news anchor whose on-air breakdown becomes a ratings phenomenon in Network. His despair becomes the spectacle the network packages and sells.
Television news: News reporting and presentation produced for broadcast television. The film places its fictional newsroom within familiar television-news routines.
Paddy Chayefsky: An American playwright and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for Network. His screenplay shaped the film’s dialogue and media-industry satire.
Broadcast News: A 1987 American comedy-drama about journalists working in a television newsroom. It treats newsroom ambition and ethics with more romantic comedy than apocalyptic satire.
Peter Finch: An English-Australian actor who played Howard Beale in Network. His performance won a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor.
Diana Christensen: A fictional television producer in Network who pursues ratings through sensational programming. She turns Beale’s broadcasts into a commercially successful television format.
Broadcast journalism: Journalism produced for radio or television broadcast. The film’s newsroom conflict depends on journalism’s public-information role.
Sidney Lumet: An American film and theater director who directed Network. His direction gave the screenplay its urgent newsroom and studio settings.
Wag the Dog: A 1997 political satire about manufacturing a war to distract the public from scandal. It shifts the manufacture of spectacle from television ratings to political crisis management.
Faye Dunaway: An American actor who played Diana Christensen in Network. Her performance earned the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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