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Jeff Pinkner (writer)
Kario Salem (writer)
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Release Date:
13 June 2001 (USA) more
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Too intelligent for people who think *Survivor* was good TV. more (9 total)

Cast

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Hrach Titizian ... Computer Tech Steve Jordan (6 episodes, 2001)

Gary Werntz ... Harry (5 episodes, 2001)
Michael Reilly Burke ... Jeremy Anglade (4 episodes, 2001)

Ian Paul Cassidy ... Ryan Brown (4 episodes, 2001)

Mark Pellegrino ... Bobby James / ... (3 episodes, 2001)

Sulo Williams ... WNS Tech Marco (3 episodes, 2001)

Layla Alexander ... Lydia (2 episodes, 2001)

Idalis DeLeon ... Sylvia (2 episodes, 2001)
Peter J. Lucas ... Zloti (2 episodes, 2001)

Kelly McNair ... Julie (2 episodes, 2001)

Ilya Melnikoff (2 episodes, 2001)
Valeri Nikolayev (2 episodes, 2001)
Kario Salem (2 episodes, 2001)

Dennis Weaver ... Walter McFadden (2 episodes, 2001)
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Too intelligent for people who think *Survivor* was good TV., 17 September 2001
Author: garamet from USA

*The Beast* never had a chance on network television. Set the viewer down inside the studio of a cutting-edge CNN-like television station, and let us see how its inhabitants live and work by following them around with a handheld camera everywhere but to the restroom. Give us current news, like the brush-wars in small countries no one can find on a map, and have a couple of our reporters detained for interrogation. Add a killer with possible connections to the TV station. Show us how the tech people work behind the scenes. Throw in a - horrors! - interracial love story, and your show is destined to be axed after a handful of episodes. The scripting was brilliant, the acting crisp, the production values edgy, the characters fully-realized and appealing, warts and all. The weekly dilemma between what constitutes good reporting and when it's necessary to sacrifice reportorial objectivity to save people's lives was thought-provoking, the kind of thing you carry away from the hour and ruminate on the next day, and the next. A TV show that asks viewers to *think*? Didn't you guys realize that would doom you to failure?

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