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…
Holly Hunter has been set to play Sally Yates in the CBS Studios event miniseries based on former FBI director James Comey's bestselling bookA Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. Yates served as a U.S. Attorney and later Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General under President Barack Obama, and took on the role…
Brendan Gleeson has been set to play President Donald Trump opposite Jeff Daniels’ James Comey in the four-hour CBS Studios event miniseries based on the former FBI director’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership. Deadline reported earlier this morning that Daniels will play Comey.
Billy Ray…
AT&T Audience Network has set 10 p.m. Tuesday, September 10, for the Season 3 premiere of Mr. Mercedes, the drama from David E. Kelley based on the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. Check out the first-look photos above and below.
Brendan Gleeson, Justine Lupe, Jharrel Jerome and Breeda Wool star in the series…
Mr. Mercedes starBrendan Gleeson and Ariyon Bakare have come aboard Ira Sachs’s drama A Family Vacation, joining Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear, and Marisa Tomei. Co-written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, the plot follows three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in…
Approached by Stephen King with the galleys for King’s latest effort Mr. Mercedes, director Jack Bender was thrilled. “He had never written a detective novel, and I found it fascinating that Stephen was writing this time about the monsters inside the people, as opposed to the monsters outside the people,” Bender told…
EXCLUSIVE: Stephen King adaptation Mr. Mercedes will be back for a ten-episode second season on August 22, AT&T Audience Network told Deadline during the show’s panel at The Contenders Emmys. Director Jack Bender joined stars Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch and Holland Taylor to discuss the series’ first…
