Showtime is going back to the 1980s.
The premium cable network has handed out a 10-episode series order to comedy Black Monday. The series, starring Don Cheadle and Andrew Rannells, was developed with the title Ball Street.
Picked up to pilot in September 2017 following an extended deal-making process, Black Monday kicks off on Oct. 19, 1987 ? aka Black Monday, the day of the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street. The series 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, Don Henley?s birthday party and the glass ceiling.
?Black Monday is a scathing comic commentary on the excess of the ?80s," Nevins said. " Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall lead a hilarious cast that takes on blue-blooded Wall Street as the Bad News Bears of Wall Street trading firms.?
Cheadle, who won a Golden Globe and scored four Emmy nominations for Showtime comedy House of Lies, stars as a self-educated, self-made, self-destructive master of the universe whose firm the financial press called ?The L.A. Raiders of corporate raiders.? Rannells, a two-time Tony nominee, plays Blair Shmerman, a fresh-out-of-Wharton trading prodigy whose pure heart will struggle to survive Wall Street (from both a metaphoric and a cocaine-use standpoint). Hall co-stars as the first female head trader on the street, who?ll ride the second wave of feminism through a sea of horny millionaires.