(Aside #1: By the way, in his introduction to the film, Robert Osborne described it as being set in the very distant future, which I found strange, since it's clearly set in 1976 -- the opening sequence features four TVs with the anchormen from NBC, ABC, CBS and the fictional UBS, and the real anchormen are those on the air in 1976, when the film was made. I've always found Osborne's mini-commentaries and fun facts about the films he introduces to be entertaining and occasionally informative, so it was striking to me that he would be so wrong about something so obvious.)

(Aside #2: I noted two locations used for Network which were seemed familiar to me from other films. One, a rundown farmhouse where the "Ecumenical Liberation Army" is holed up, was used at the end of the 1970 film Joe which featured Peter Boyle; another, an imposing and impressive interior marble staircase, I'm fairly certain was used for 1988's Working Girl, the Melanie Griffith/Harrison Ford vehicle. It doesn't mean anything, of course, but I thought it was interesting. As a New Yorker, a Manhattanite, half the fun of watching TV shows filmed here, like the "Law & Order" series, is identifying the locations where things were shot, so you can say "Hey, that isn't Gramercy Park! That's a corner of Central Park!" It's an amusing game, as long as you don't let it get in the way.)