The Scottish actor on the National Theatre staging of Network and going back to Shetland"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to stand for it!" In 1976 American anger about the state of the nation was channelled into Network, in which cinema satirised its kid sibling television as vapid and opportunistic. Paddy Chayefsky's script, directed by Sidney Lumet, starred Peter Finch as Howard Beale, a news anchor who has a ner…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54AM on November 6, 2017