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Prepare for more unhappy couples after SundanceTV renewed its short-form series State of the Union for a second season. Brendan Gleeson, Patricia Clarkson and Esco Jouléy are set to star in the second season of the anthology show, which originally starred Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike. Writer Nick Hornby and director…

"We always thought of it as one movie — it was just going to be a three-and-a-half-hour movie," director Billy Ray admits of Showtime's limited series The Comey Rule. "To be honest the structure that we stole was …Jaws," he added of the political drama based on fired FBI boss James Comey’s memoir A Higher Loyalty. "I…

Showtime airs the battle between ex-FBI director James Comey and President Donald Trump and the investigation into Russian election meddling depicted in The Comey Rule on Sunday and Monday. This after ViacomCBS changed a shocking decision to relegate the $40 million star-studded series to January. Here, Billy Ray…

"I imagine we will be on his radar and I think it is likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes, but that's just a guess," The Comey Rule director Billy Ray said  today on how Donald Trump will react to the upcoming Showtime event series. "I think at the very least, I'm in for a mean nickname on Twitter," the Captain…

“Useful idiot” is a pretty self-explanatory term the Kremlin has long used to describe expendable assets that they develop and deploy but never respect. It is also a pretty applicable phrase to sum up the current President of the United States, at least according to Showtime’s excellent and deeply unsettling The Comey…

The first trailer for Showtime’s The Comey Rule has been released and it will definitely stir up some conversation — especially with Emmy winner Brendan Gleeson’s portrayal of Donald Trump. Even though we only see him as Trump for a limited amount of time, it’s uncanny and… a little creepy. In the two-part limited…

Here is Showtime's first teaser trailer for The Comey Rule, the Billy Ray-directed limited series that will air September 27 and 28. Jeff Daniels plays former FBI Director James Comey in his bitter battle against President Donald Trump, who is played by Brendan Gleeson. The $40 million four-hour series recently became…

A day after The Comey Rule writer/director Billy Ray released a letter to the cast lamenting the decision by ViacomCBS to slot the limited series until after the presidential elections in November, Showtime has just announced an about-face. The limited series will now air Sunday, September 27 and 28 at 9 PM. The…

UPDATE: Maybe this is not as done a deal as the cast and director of The Comey Rule were told. Sources now tell me that the programming schedule is in flux due to COVID-19 and that some productions were delayed. As a result, several date changes will soon be made. Most important here, it is now looking likely that The…

Showtime has just set a late November premiere date over two nights for its limited series The Comey Rule, the $40 million budget adaptation of A Higher Loyalty, the book by former FBI head James Comey that is about his battles with President Donald Trump. The network released the first images of Gleeson playing…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: I’ve heard from sources that Martin McDonagh has a title ready for his next movie, the one he’ll shoot this summer with In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in the lead roles. The film is titled The Banshees of Inisheer. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, 8:07 AM: Martin McDonagh’s untitled next film…

EXCLUSIVE: A looming question when the CBS Studios event limited series based on former FBI director James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership airs next year in election season: will President Donald Trump watch and tweet in real time, or ignore it? The allure of the series grows…