With Don Cheadle starring, Showtime’s new series Black Monday follows the events surrounding October 19, 1987, which is also known as the worst stock market crash in the history of Wall Street.
It’s all happening at The Jammer Group, a ragtag Wall Street firm headed by Maurice “Mo” Monroe (Don Cheadle). Mo leads his team of misfit traders, including no-nonsense Dawn (Regina Hall), eager-to-please Keith (Paul Scheer), wild man Wayne (Horatio Sanz), and hotshot Yassir (Yassir Lester). Into this motley mix walks Blair Pfaff (Andrew Rannells), a young wide-eyed trader who gets in way over his head. Together, they take on the moneyed, blueblood, old-boys club of New York finance and end up unwittingly crashing a Lamborghini limousine, the glass ceiling and the world’s largest financial system in this scathing comic commentary on 1980s excess.
The series was created and executive produced by David Caspe (Happy Endings) and Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl), who also serve as showrunners. James Weaver and Don Cheadle also serve as executive producers, and fellow EPs Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg directed the pilot.
Starring Don Cheadle (House of Lies), Regina Hall (Girls Trip), Andrew Rannells (Girls), Paul Scheer (The League), Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live), and Yassir Lester (Making History). Recurring guest stars are Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) as Blair’s girlfriend, Kurt Braunholer (Bunk) as Jammer foe Ty Daverman, Ken Marino (Wet Hot American Summer) as the Leighman Brothers and Eugene Cordero (Kong: Skull Island) as a Jammer Group trader. Among the many guest stars are Emmy and two-time Oscar® nominee Bruce Dern as legendary trader Rod, Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) as Keith’s loving wife Shira and Kadeem Hardison (A Different World) as Dawn’s husband Spencer, with Vanessa Bell Calloway (Shameless) and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) as Daw’s artist mother Ruth and professor father Walter. Julie Hagerty (Airplane!, Instant Family) and Phil Reeves (Veep) are heads of a designer denim empire and Jason Michael Snow (The Book of Mormon) plays Mike, a Broadway actor.
The 10-episode series premieres on January 20th on Showtime. You can watch the first episode below, and also on Facebook or SHO.com.
