Monday, June 18, 2018
Showtime Gets Don Cheadle Comedy; HBO Special Directed by Jerrod Carmichael Coming Soon
SHOWTIME has ordered the comedy series Black Monday, starring and executive produced by Emmy(R) nominated and Golden Globe(R) winning actor Don Cheadle - returning to SHOWTIME after a five-season run as star and executive producer of House of Lies - with two-time Tony Award(R) nominee and Grammy(R) winner Andrew Rannells (Girls) and Regina Hall (Girls Trip) also leading the cast. The series was created by David Caspe (Happy Endings) and Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl), who will serve as executive producers and showrunners. Emmy nominees Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Preacher, Superbad), who will also executive produce, directed the pilot. With an 10-episode order, Black Monday, a co-production between SHOWTIME and Sony Pictures Television Studios, will premiere in 2019.
Black Monday takes us back to October 19, 1987 - aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street. To this day, no one knows who caused it ... until now. It's the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world's largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley's birthday party and the glass ceiling. The comedy also stars Paul Scheer (The League), Yassir Lester (Making History), Michael James Scott (Aladdin on Broadway) and Eugene Cordero (Kong: Skull Island), with recurring guest star Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and guest stars Ken Marino (Wet Hot American Summer) and Kurt Braunohler (Bunk).
HBO has wrapped production on a special starring comedians Drew Michael and Suki Waterhouse, with Jerrod Carmichael directing. Shot in Los Angeles last month, the special will debut on the network later this year. Drew Michael has written for Saturday Night Live and guest starred on sitcom The Carmichael Show. He recorded a stand-up special for the cable series The Half Hour, as well as stand-up albums "Lovely" and "Funny to Death." Suki Waterhouse stars in the upcoming feature Assassination Nation, and was most recently seen in The Bad Batch. Jerrod Carmichael has headlined two stand-up specials on HBO; Jerrod Carmichael: Love At The Store, and Jerrod Carmichael: 8.
Sitcoms Airing Tonight / Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows
Sunday, October 26
Krapopolis - "Ty Died" (Fox, 7:00PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Ty is tired of his family thinking he's not important enough to be assassinated.
The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXV" (Fox, 7:30PM ET/PT) (Repeat)
Giant monsters created by political rage threaten to tear the town apart; a Victorian Mr. Burns is jump-scared on Thanksgiving by the ghosts of his abused workers; Homer bonds with a pair of extra-terrestrial jeans.
The Simpsons - "Men Behaving Manly" (Fox, 8:00PM ET/PT)
Springfield's men are in crisis.
Universal Basic Guys - "Down the Shore" (Fox, 8:30PM ET/PT)
The Hoagies go down the shore; Tammy tries to make amends with her estranged sister.
Krapopolis - "There's Something About Viscera" (Fox, 9:00PM ET/PT)
Shlub's Endless Wine, Cheese, and Pita Festival causes a famine; Stupendous and Deliria have a girls weekend.
Bob's Burgers - "The Skids in the Hall" (Fox, 9:30PM ET/PT)
Louise and Gene try to help Tina clear her name after she is fired as a hall monitor.
Electric Bloom - "How We (Sorta) Got Our First Big Break: Part One" (Disney Channel, 8:00PM ET/PT)
The girls get a potentially life-changing audition, but get asked to perform at a wedding at the exact same time; what do they do?
Electric Bloom - "How We (Sorta) Got Our First Big Break: Part Two" (Disney Channel, 8:30PM ET/PT)
Electric Bloom gets the opportunity of a lifetime, to meet with a famous music producer; the experience is not at all what they expected.
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows (Week of October 20)
Saturday, October 25
- Tig Notaro (One Mississippi) - Tig appears on ABC's Good Morning America sometime between 7-9am.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
01/28 - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
02/04 - The Wayans Bros. - The Complete Series
03/11 - Frasier (2023) - Season Two
04/01 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Third Season
05/13 - The Drew Carey Show - The Complete Series* (missing 4 episodes and some music has been replaced or altered)
06/06 - Shoresy - Season 2
06/17 - Looney Tunes - Collector's Vault - Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
07/22 - Bewitched - The Complete Series - 60th Anniversary Special Edition (Blu-ray)
08/26 - The Huckleberry Hound Show - The Complete Original Series (Blu-ray)
10/07 - Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage - The Complete First Season
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