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Season 1 – The Beast

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Jounalist Alice Allenby clashes with media mogul Jackson Burns, who has built a 24-hour broadcast station where his reporters not only cover the stories but end up being the stories themselves.
The Beast — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

The Beast buries the lead of its intelligent concept with hyperbolic drama and ham-fisted dialogue.

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Robert Bianco USA Today 02/11/2020
1.5/4
The people behind this newscast exposé really do seem to think they're saying something profound about the state of modern broadcast journalism. They don't seem to have noticed that The Beast is preposterous at every turn. Go to Full Review Howard Rosenberg Los Angeles Times 02/11/2020
Life is a jump-cut here, and events are as sped-up in this drama as in the accelerated news phenomenon it portrays with a self-conscious, heavy hand, giving shrill resonance to issues that some media observers have been citing for years. Go to Full Review Caryn James New York Times 02/11/2020
It takes about 10 minutes for ''The Beast'' to turn into a conventional, badly written drama, loaded with stock characters. Go to Full Review Terry Kelleher People Magazine 02/11/2020
The pilot offers a compelling if ambiguous take on the timely question of whether to televise an execution, and the cool confidence of [Frank] Langella's portrayal compensates for Jason Gedrick's posturing as a leather-jacketed outlaw journalist. Go to Full Review Alan Pergament Buffalo News 02/11/2020
1.5/4
The opener written by series creator Kario Salem and directed by Mimi Leder is a huge waste of talent and a minor waste of time. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/05/2016 I recently watched this to Honor Patrick Swayze's memory and apart from a few cliched episodes that we have all seen before it wasn't too bad and the season thread line did get better as the show progressed and could have gone on if circumstances had been different. So thank you Patrick for everything you gave us and and my thanks to Travis Fimmel for this and Vikings may your future be as bright as the stars above See more Read all reviews
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Frank Langella

Jackson Burns

Jason Gedrick

Reese McFadden

Peter Riegert

Ted Fisher

Naveen Andrews

Tamir Naipaul

Harriet Sansom Harris

Mrs. Sweeny

April Grace

Sonya Topple

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jun 13, 2001 The Price A media mogul (Frank Langella) runs a news organization whose cameras and stories bare the lives of Internet journalists. Details Episode 2 Aired Jun 20, 2001 The Damage Done Alice worries she might be biased in her report on voter fraud; Tamir tracks down the media bomber's father. Details Episode 3 Aired Jun 27, 2001 The Delivery An intern suffers a dangerous emotional breakdown; Reese mistakenly receives a package containing a large amount of money. Details Episode 4 Aired Jul 11, 2001 Travinia Alice and Tamir investigate illegal activities in an impoverished Eastern European country. Details Episode 5 Aired Jul 18, 2001 Travinia II Jackson must devise a plan to save Alice and Tamir, who are hostages of a Travinian rebel. Details

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Season Info

Director
Mimi Leder, Lou Antonio, Ian Sander
Executive Producer
Mimi Leder, Kario Salem, Ian Sander, Kim Moses, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Tony Krantz
Screenwriter
Kario Salem, Joshua Brand, Jeff Pinkner
Network
ABC
Rating
TV-14 (L|V)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 13, 2001