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The Beast

The Price (Pilot)

Debut: The media gets worked over in a brave new series that casts an eye on the dark side of the information age.

Frank Langella stars as Jackson Burns, Machiavellian CEO of the World News Service, a 24-hour cable station that also feeds the staff's daily doings onto the Web. In the pilot, he lures newbie reporter Alice (Elizabeth Mitchell) into his world with an offer to air her anti-death-penalty piece during a killer's televised execution. But as Burns basks in the ensuing scandal and Alice's instant celebrity, bad-boy anchor Reese (Jason Gedrick) incites a mad bomber who plans to blow WNS---and their ratings---to kingdom come. Maggie: Wendy Crewson. Ted: Peter Riegert.

Cast: Frank Langella, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jason Gedrick, Harriet Samson Harris, April Grace, Wendy Crewson, Peter Riegert, Naveen Andrews

Rating: TV-14

Content: Explicit Sexual Situations, Violence

Category: Drama

Director: Mimi Leder

From the June 9-15 issue of TV Guide

Susan Stewart's Hits and Misses

The Beast (Rating TV 12 SV)

This new summer series boasts a fine cast, headed by Frank Langella and Jason Gedrick, as well as a heady concept: a news network whose cameras cover its office drama on the Net and world events on TV. Everybody's on the air, all the time. In the pilot, the network broadcasts a grisly death in the electric chair. Maybe that's why Beast, originally slated for mid-season, was held until now: It's too provocative for its own good. The sound bites come at bullet speed ("Celebrity is a gang rape," "The camera is God") and the issues are so tangled, nothing feels right. This Beast is powerful but too prickly for prime time. My score: 4

The synopsis for the episode reads:

The media get worked over in a brave new series that casts an eye on the dark side of the information age. Frank Langella stars as Jackson Burns, Machiavellian CEO of the World News Service, a 24-hour cable station that also feeds the staff's daily doings on the Web. In the pilot, he lures newbie report Alice (Elizabeth Mitchell) into his world with an offer to air her anti-death-penalty piece during a killer's televised execution. But as Burns basks in the ensuing scandal and Alice's instant celebrity, bad-boy anchor Reese (Jason Gedrick) incites a mad bomber who plans to blow WNS-and their ratings-to kingdom come. Maggie: Wendy Crewson. Ted: Peter Riegert.

The ad for The Beast has EM in the spotlight with the other cast members behind her.

From ABC -- The Beast Web Site

June 20th Episode

ALICE UNCOVERS VOTER FRAUD IN A TIGHT SENATE RACE, AND TAMIR TRACKS DOWN MEDIA BOMBER BOBBY JAMES' FATHER

"The Damage Done" - Alice worries that her own political views impacted her reportage of voter fraud in a tight California senate race, and Tamir is hot on the trail of media bomber Bobby James' father who may be able to shed light on his estranged son; meanwhile, Jackson confesses to Sonya that pleasurable sensations no longer satisfy him, and Bobby James continues posing as a WNS intern and has a dangerous encounter with the man who ordered him to kill Jackson on "The Beast," WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

"The Beast" stars Frank Langella as Jackson Burns, Jason

Gedrick as Reese McFadden, Peter Riegert as Ted Fisher, Naveen Andrews as Tamir Naipaul, Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs. Sweeny, April Grace as Sonya Topple, with Wendy Crewson as Maggie Steech and Elizabeth Mitchell as Alice Allenby.

From TV Guide.com The Delivery Airdate: June 27, 2001 A mysterious package sends Reese after a story that may be tied to a friend's murder; Harry sees the connection between a WNS intern and mad bomber Bobby James (Mark Pelligrino); and Alice catches Maggie in a compromising position and gets an unexpected explanation. Barbara: Valerie Perrine. Tamir: Naveen Andrews. Ryan: Ian Paul Cassidy. Julie: Kelly McNair. Lucy: Kim Meyers.

  

Cast: Frank Langella, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jason Gedrick, Peter Riegert, Naveen Andrews, Harriet Samson Harris, April Grace, Wendy Crewson, Mark Pelligrino, Valerie Perrine, Kim Meyers, Ian Paul Cassidy, Gary Werntz

Rating: TV-14

Content: Strong, Coarse Language, Violence

No Gordita on July 4th

From TV Guide.com

Travinia, Part 1

Airdate: July 11, 2001

Part 1 of two. Alice and Tamir go undercover in a tiny European country that's allegedly stockpiling biological weapons; Reese reports a sad update on his famous dad (Dennis Weaver), a journalist who has serious issues with his son's career path. Jackson: Frank Langella. Maggie: Wendy Crewson. Sweeny: Harriet Sansom Harris.

From Click TV.com

Travinia, Part 2

Airdate: July 18, 2001

After they get video footage of the manufacture of chemical weapons, Alice and Tamir are taken hostage by a rebel Travinian colonel who's after their tape. With Frank Langella and Jason Gedrick. Dennis Weaver guest stars.