Showtime Pushes Up COMEY Miniseries, Delays THE GOOD LORD BIRD

After initially planning to debut THE COMEY RULE post-election, Showtime has moved up the series to Sunday, September 27 and Monday, September 28 at 9/8c.

The miniseries, which stars Jeff Daniels as former FBI Director James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald J. Trump, was adapted and directed by Billy Ray. The four-hour limited series is “an immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation.”

THE GOOD LORD BIRD, the new series starring Ethan Hawke—based on the novel by the same name by James McBride—will debut on Sunday, October 4 at 9/8c. The series is “told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown’s motley family of abolitionist soldiers and eventually finds himself participating in the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. THE GOOD LORD BIRD uniquely and unpredictably spotlights the complicated racial, religious and gender roles that make up the American identity.”

Showtime has also picked up the six-episode drama WE HUNT TOGETHER, “an hour-long series from BBC Studios starring Eve Myles (Keeping Faith, Torchwood), Babou Ceesay (GUERRILLA), Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Dipo Ola (Baghdad Central, Inside No. 9). A gripping twist on a classic cat-and-mouse story, WE HUNT TOGETHER explores the intoxication of sexual attraction and the dangerous power of emotional manipulation. As two conflicted detectives (Myles and Ceesay) track down a pair of deadly killers (Corfield and Ola), the series reveals how finding a volatile form of solace in another can have dire consequences. Written by Gaby Hull and directed by Carl Tibbetts, WE HUNT TOGETHER will premiere on SHOWTIME on Sunday, August 9 at 10 p.m.”

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