Michael Thorn was named entertainment president of Fox Broadcasting in August. Four months later, The Walt Disney Co. agreed to acquire the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment ass…
Execs mulled the possibilities as the Television Critics Association kicked off its semi-annual press tour Thursday.
The Fox network will continue to carry scripted entertainment programming after the anticipated split of the 20th Century Fox studio from its Fox Broadcasting Co. sibling. That was the word …
Network's Video Designer Tal Yarden discusses the use of pre-recorded and live film in Network in a new video released by National Theatre Discoverer on YouTube. Follow Julie Rocque and Chri…
We’ve braved the crowds and office Christmas party, surely a little precious “me time” is well overdue. As we hurtle toward the inevitable end of the year, why not take som…
Alan Bennett's 'Say Something Happened' will be on stage at Network Theatre, London. Alan Bennett is the playwright behind the play while Charles Leo Raine directs it. The play features Sara…
BroadwayWorld, the largest and most comprehensive theatre website, has signed on as the 2018 official media partner for Charity Network, including online auction site Charitybuzz and sweepst…
By HowlRound TV. The VORTEX in Austin, Texas and the National New Play Network present a performance of Wild Horses, livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV net…
vo van Hove's production, starring Bryan Cranston in the iconic Peter Finch role, makes the case for itself by inviting audience identification with Beale's angry, uncensored, unedited, unco…
In 1964, Marshal McLuhan taught us that 'the medium is the message'. Back then, that medium was television. Today, it is the internet, social media, smartphones that live in our pocket. We a…
Lyttelton, LondonCranston is compelling as the TV anchorman-gone-rogue in Ivo Van Hove and Lee Hall's dazzling stage version of the 1976 filmFlesh and gizmo. Substance and reflections. Watch…
The London stage this week has music from Blondie to jazz and "Lucia di Lammermoor" opera; new shows such as "Network" and many classics.Our format is to list newly opening and one-time show…
Last December, Belgian big-shot Ivo van Hove’s production of Hedda Gabler opened on the National’s Lyttelton stage, a radical revival that the
Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove takes us inside his London stage adaptation of the 1970s Oscar-winning film.
Jermyn Street Theatre's dynamic 2018 spring season 2018 focuses on scandal and its impact with four plays: Woman Before a Glass, Mad as Hell, Hilda & Virginia and The Dog Beneath the Sk…
The 'Breaking Bad' star plays news anchorman Howard Beale in the stage adaptation of Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film, walking the line between anger and madness perfectly
PROFIT AND  A PROPHET: RANTINGS AND RATINGS I came to  this a day late for tedious domestic reasons, but since the original film is about a news anchor , Howard Beale, go…
By Paul T Davies Paul T Davies reviews Lee Hall's adaptation of Network starring Bryan Cranston, Douglas Henshall and Michelle Dockery at the National Theatre. This post REVIEW: Network, Lyt…
Read reviews for the National Theatre production directed by Tony winner Ivo van Hove.
The medium is the message " or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky's classic TV news satire isn't just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed home by a…
Network depicts a dystopian media landscape where opinion trumps fact. Hilarious and horrifying by turns, the iconic film by Paddy Chayefsky won four Academy Awards in 1976. Now, Lee Hall Bi…
A triumphant adaptation of the 1976 film on the National Theatre's Lyttelton stage, London
A stage adaptation, directed by Ivo van Hove, confirms the prophecy of a 1976 movie about populist rage and manipulative technology