Bryan Cranston made his name in Breaking Bad as a high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston has signed up to make his debut on the London stage as a TV news anchor in a theatre adaptation of the film Network. Cranston, 60, will play Howard Beale, who said the line “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more” in the Oscar-winning 1976 movie.