Miniseries · Showtime
The Loudest Voice
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Russell Crowe
Roger Ailes
7 eps
Sienna Miller
Elizabeth 'Beth' Ailes
7 eps
Seth MacFarlane
Brian Lewis
5 eps
Naomi Watts
Gretchen Carlson
7 eps
Simon McBurney
Rupert Murdoch
5 eps
Annabelle Wallis
Laurie Luhn
5 eps
Josh Stamberg
Bill Shine
7 eps
Aleksa Palladino
Judy Laterza
7 eps
Adam Harper
Cop #2
7 eps
Jamie Jackson
Ian Rae
1 eps
John Finn
Jack Welch
1 eps
Hayley Griffith
Chloe
1 eps
Orlagh Cassidy
Stephanie Rains
1 eps
John Rue
Dick Cheney
1 eps
Allan Greenberg
Karl Rove
1 eps
Tiffan Borelli
E.D. Donahey
1 eps
Peter Grosz
Alan Colmes
1 eps
Julee Cerda
Wendi Deng
1 eps
Peggy Gormley
Receptionist
1 eps
Juri Henley-Cohn
Prince Al-Waleed
1 eps
Andy Kelso
Marty Dibari
1 eps
Anne Carney
Martha
1 eps
Blake DeLong
Frank
1 eps
David Cromer
David Axelrod
2 eps
Josh McDermitt
Glenn Beck
1 eps
James Michael Reilly
Richard Shea
1 eps
Emory Cohen
Joe Lindsley
2 eps
Erin Darke
Kat Lindsley
1 eps
Fran Kranz
Gabe Sherman
1 eps
Joe Cortese
Roger Stone
1 eps
David Whalen
Steve Doocy
3 eps
Laura Jordan
Jill Arthur
1 eps
Barry Watson
Lachlan Murdoch
3 eps
Jessica Hecht
Nancy Erika Smith
2 eps
Timothy Busfield
Neil Mullin
2 eps
Josh Helman
James Murdoch
2 eps
Catherine Curtin
Michelle Hirshman
1 eps
Dennis Staroselsky
Brian Kilmeade
3 eps
Richard Topol
Gerson Zweifach
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Loudest Voice actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Loudest Voice reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, while flashing back to defining events in his life.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
2012
Fox News Channel is now the dominant news outlet and Roger is working the levers of his power. But he doesn't see the danger posed by Gretchen Carlson. After years of harassment by Roger, she's finally had enough.
- Directed by Kari Skogland
- Written by Laura Eason, Alex Metcalf
S01E02
2001
Fox News Channel is on the cusp of passing CNN to become the #1 rated news network. Then 9/11 changes everything. Roger begins pushing the news with an agenda, and finally puts Fox on top of the ratings race.
- Directed by Kari Skogland
- Written by Alex Metcalf
S01E04
2009
Roger finds his legacy in Joe Lindsley, a 25-year-old acolyte he hires as editor of a newspaper he bought in upstate New York. Turning this paper into a conservative news source, Roger achieves his revenge against the Obama White House.
- Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
- Written by John Harrington Bland
S01E03
2008
With the election of "Barack Hussein Obama," Roger and Fox News Channel have found the ultimate enemy-one that will drive Fox's coverage as well as cement ratings at #1. What no one suspects are the hidden depths of Roger's secret world.
- Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
- Written by Jennifer Stahl, Gabriel Sherman
S01E01
1995
Roger Ailes joins forces with media magnate Rupert Murdoch to form Fox News Channel. Working feverishly to get ahead of the competition, Roger must do the unthinkable - put an entire network on the air in the space of six months.
- Directed by Kari Skogland
- Written by Tom McCarthy, Gabriel Sherman
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E05
2012
- Directed by Kari Skogland
- Written by Laura Eason, Alex Metcalf
S01E03
2008
- Directed by Jeremy Podeswa
- Written by Jennifer Stahl, Gabriel Sherman
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tom McCarthyExecutive Producer
- Alex MetcalfExecutive Producer
- Jeremy GoldExecutive Producer
- Jason BlumExecutive Producer
- Liza ChasinExecutive Producer
- Marci WisemanExecutive Producer
Writing
- Laura EasonWriter
- Tom McCarthyWriter
- Alex MetcalfWriter
- Jennifer StahlWriter
- Gabriel ShermanWriter
- John Harrington BlandWriter
Direction
- Stephen FrearsDirector
- Kari SkoglandDirector
- Jeremy PodeswaDirector
Cinematography
- William RexerDirector of Photography
Music
- Marcelo ZarvosOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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