Any references you see in Starz’s new comedy Blunt Talk to Paddy Chayefsky’s Network are entirely not coincidental, the show’s creator/exec producer Joanthan Ames told journalists at TCA this morning. Asked if there was a connection, Ames answered happily, “Very much so. I, in preparation for writing, rewatched Network. Network was wonderful — I wanted more Howard Beale.” (For the one or two people reading who are not in the know: Chayefsky’s scathing mid-’70s sendup of…