Network (1976). A longtime anchor for the UBS Evening News, Howard Beale, is down on his luck, became a drunk after his wife passed away and has been spinning out of control since. When he has just two more weeks on the air because of declining ratings, he decides to announce his decision to kill himself while broadcasting live on the network. The network is mired in panic and a state of shock, immediately calling for Beale to be fired... but their ratings start going through the roof after Howard is given one more chance live on air to announce his resignation, to which he ended up ranting about the bullshit of life instead. The UBS executives are being driven crazy, this is unprecedented, on one hand you have an anchor who is off his rocker, a mad man, but at the same time the network is finally getting a massive ratings boost. Americans love him. The programming chief has an idea: take advantage of this crisis while you can, this could make shares in the company skyrocket along with the ratings. When she persuades Howard Beale to star in his own show, that is where things start to get out of control, and once things get out of control it becomes more difficult for the network to fix the dangerous rut they just got themselves trapped into. Especially as a popular and influential man such as Beale turns against the very network that made him a star, and ends up threatening to bankrupt USB itself.

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