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Updated with statements from Showtime: Comedies Black Monday and Work in Progress will not be moving forward at Showtime, becoming the latest titles to get the chop from the premium cable network. On Thursday, Work in Progress showrunner Lilly Wachowski revealed on Twitter that the series from co-creator and star Abby…

Showtime is taking a familiar tack with this weekend’s season premieres of two returning shows and the series premiere of a third. The premium cabler has released the first episode of The Chi‘s fourth season and the debut of new comedy Flatbush Misdemeanors for free online, with the Season 3 kickoff of Black…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Asghari (Can You Keep A Secret?) is set for a recurring role on the upcoming third season of Don Cheadle’s Showtime series Black Monday. Starring and executive produced by Cheadle, Black Monday is a comedy about a motley crew of underdogs who caused the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall…

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Barbusca and Adreinne Wells will dive into the chaos of Wall Street in the 80s as they join Showtime’s Black Monday in recurring roles. Barbusca will play Werner, a Young Republican assigned as an aide on the congressional staff of Blair (Andrew Rannells). Werner is more ambitious and less…

Showtime has announced May 23 premiere dates for acclaimed returning series, The Chi and Black Monday, and new half-hour comedy Flatbush Misdemeanors. Heading into its fourth Season, The Chi debuts at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Season 3 of Black Monday kicks off at 10 p.m., with Flatbush Misdemeanors launching at 10:30…

Black Monday star Regina Hall is expanding her relationship with Showtime, signing a first-look deal with the premium cabler behind the series. Under the pact, Hall will develop and produce television projects via her production company, Rh Negative. The network is already in development on a one-hour comedy special…

Black Monday will live to see another crash after it was picked up for a third season by Showtime. Don Cheadle's dark comedy has been renewed for another ten-episode run and will start production next year for a 2021 premiere. The series is a co-production between Showtime and Sony Pictures Television. The show's…

The creators behind the Showtime comedy Black Monday won’t have a hard time finding inspiration for Season 3. Written by David Caspe and Jordan Cahan, the series takes viewers back to October 19, 1987, aka Black Monday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost almost 22% in a single day. To this day, no one knows…

EXCLUSIVE: Proudly "boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before," as its trailer says, Star Trek: Lower Decks has now brought Paul Scheer on board to the animated CBS All Access series. Set to debut on August 6 on the ViacomCBS-owned streamer, the first comedy in the Trekverrse will see the Black Monday…

From playing the unhinged Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress to battling Thanos as War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Don Cheadle's resume is a diverse array of characters, but none of them are quite like Mo Monroe in Showtime's Black Monday. Cheadle plays the coke-snorting, self-destructive broker navigating…

Showtime has made more adjustments to its schedule as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which suspended all Hollywood production. Black Monday and Billions, which were in production on their current/upcoming seasons when the shutdown occurred, will air partial seasons, with the rest of the episodes running at a…

With TV content pipeline starting to dry up as the coronavirus pandemic is shutting down series production and delaying post-production, networks are adjusting their schedules, trying to have the originals in the can last longer and pushing premieres of shows whose completion and delivery has been disrupted by the…