Reply #7: Network is worth buying on DVD [View All]

[Colonel Bat Guano]

TCM unfortunately will censor the, eh, salty language. Better than a typical network run, at least no commercials, but you're not really getting the whole thing. You can probably find it on DVD for ten bucks or so, it's worth it.

It was amazing to me on rewatching the movie about five years ago that Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall are essentially running a template for what Fox Network and Fox News became about twenty years later. The characters still make it fascinating but I kind of wonder about the new live version. How do you make current a satire about a wild change that became the establishment years ago? I did love the live "Fail Safe", though...and I am looking forward to hearing reports of people actually shouting "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" out the window as the show is airing....