Mad as hell: Bryan Cranston plays the volatile Howard Beale in Broadway's "Network." Jan Versweyveld In Broadway’s “Network,” Bryan Cranston does the impossible: Playing Howard Beale ...

In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS ...

The "Breaking Bad" star gives a full-throated roar as Howard Beale, a TV news anchor who is “mad as hell” about his corrupt and decadent society. The 1976 film “Network” won four Academy ...

Bryan Cranston will head to the National Theater in London to portray Howard Beale, the fictitious anchorman in the 1976 film Network who battles television ratings, a crumbling world and a ...

The network fires him outright after this ... where she can develop it. Beale also gets his own show — The Howard Beale Show — on which he rants every week to a huge audience, which repeats ...

Cranston will play Howard Beale in the London National Theatre revival of the classic Sidney Lumet satire “Network” with Ivo Van Hove directing. “Billy Elliot” writer Lee Hall adapting.