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"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…

EXCLUSIVE: Many in Hollywood found ways to express their displeasure for President Donald Trump’s four-year track record, from fundraising to social media rants. Then there is the tandem of bestselling author Don Winslow and his agent Shane Salerno, latter a screenwriter who co-wrote James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar…

Author Don Winslow has issued another partisan video against President Donald Trump, this time focusing on voters in the state of Michigan. This time, he’s enlisted actor Jeff Daniels, who recently appeared as FBI Director James Comey in Showtime’s The Comey Rule. Dumb and Dumber star Daniels narrates the video…

After playing ex-FBI chief James Comey opposite Brendan Gleeson’s Donald Trump in the two part The Comey Rule that brought huge ratings for Showtime, Jeff Daniels squared time to write “Trumpty Dumpty Blues,” a song he wrote and performs about the polarizing U.S. president. If you thought the miniseries was critical…

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…

It is more than a month until The Comey Rule limited series premieres on Showtime, but the still-raging drama between Donald Trump and fired FBI director James Comey was live Monday on cable news during Night 1 of the Republican National Convention. "If you put it in a script, I'm sure it would get rejected for not…

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…