Are you ready for Black Monday? Showtime just released the premiere of the upcoming TV show online ahead of its debut date.
Set in 1987, the comedy tells “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 and the glass ceiling.” The cast includes Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer, and Eugene Cordero.
Black Monday debuts on Showtime on January 20th at 10 p.m. ET/PT, but you can watch the premiere online now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQivE6mnNfg
NEW YORK – December 28, 2018 – SHOWTIME has released the series premiere of its new comedy BLACK MONDAY early across multiple platforms. The series stars and is executive produced by Emmy(R) nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Don Cheadle and stars two-time Tony Award nominee and Grammy(R) winner Andrew Rannells (Girls) and Regina Hall (Girls Trip). Screen Actors Guild(R) Award winner Paul Scheer (Veep) also stars. BLACK MONDAY was created by David Caspe (Happy Endings) and Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl), who serve as executive producers and showrunners. Emmy nominees Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Preacher, Superbad, Future Man) are executive producers and directed the pilot. The premiere episode is available for free now on YouTube, Facebook and SHO.com. The 10-episode series will premiere on Sunday, January 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME.
The episode is also available across multiple television and streaming providers’ devices, websites, applications and authenticated online services and their free On Demand channels. In addition, the series premiere episode of BLACK MONDAY is available for free on the SHOWTIME stand-alone service’s website www.showtime.com.
BLACK MONDAY takes viewers 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 and the glass ceiling.
A co-production between SHOWTIME and Sony Pictures Television, BLACK MONDAY guest stars include Yassir Lester (Making History), Horatio Sanz (Glow) and Michael James Scott (Aladdin on Broadway), with recurring guest stars Casey Wilson (Happy Endings), Ken Marino (Wet Hot American Summer), and Kurt Braunohler (Bunk). Emmy and two-time Oscar(R) nominee Bruce Dern (Big Love), Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory), Julie Hagerty (Airplane), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World), Eugene Cordero (Kong: Skull Island), Vanessa Bell Calloway (SHAMELESS), Tim Russ (iCarly) and Jason Michael Snow (The Book of Mormon) also guest star. To learn more about BLACK MONDAY, follow on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and join the conversation using #BlackMonday.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of dark comedies? Will you watch Black Monday?
