NETWORK Sidney Lumet Sunday, June 14th (14.30) Film info: 121 mins, USA, 1976, Digital When news anchor Howard Beale (posthumous Oscar-winner Peter Finch) suffers an on-screen breakdown, Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway, in her sole Oscar-winning role), an ambitious network executive, exploits his fragile mental state to capitalise on his newfound celebrity. Cynical, blackly funny and remarkably prescient in its depiction of the advent of a news media culture predicated on ratings and entertainment rather than actual news, Network remains one of the greatest satires of US cinema.