Updated Apr 2, 2026
Brazil, Network, and This Is Spinal Tap are all among the very best satire movies released over the last 75 years. collider.com/best-satire-mo…
Network (1976) is one of the most important movies ever made. It’s almost more disruptive in its truth today than it was then. We’re now inundated with Howard Beales all day, every day. Rather than a tv network, it’s social networks. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens. What are they Show more
Replace television with Internet. True then, true now
MS NOW SHAKE-UP: The Versant-owned cable news outlet is rolling out a sweeping daytime overhaul under Rebecca Kutler. • Ali Velshi is moving to “The 11th Hour,” with current host Stephanie Ruhle shifting to a new two-hour mid-morning block starting at 9 a.m. • “Morning Joe” Show more
Maybe. In 1976 we had 3 TV networks and they pretty much set the agenda for the nation; and it was "bicentennial" 18 hrs a day. (The TV stations shut off at 11). I haven't had cable or watched network news in 10 years, so I don't have any idea if they're making a big deal or not, Show more
The worst thing about Duvall dying - I mean, he *was* 95 - is once again having to sit through all the praise being heaped on Network, probably the most overrated film of the last half century. newyorker.com/magazine/1976/…
Feels like an appropriate time to repost this scene from 1976’s “Network” Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet were 50 years ahead of their time. #WarnerBrothers #Paramount #Skydance youtu.be/A64rR5Dp07s?si…
