Casting News: Bruce Dern, Melissa Rauch, and Horatio Sanz to Join New Showtime Comedy Series Black Monday

NEW YORK – October 16, 2018 –The new SHOWTIME comedy BLACK MONDAY is adding to its guest star lineup with Emmy ^® and two-time Oscar ^® nominee Bruce Dern ( Big Love ), Melissa Rauch ( The Big Bang Theory ) and Horatio Sanz ( Saturday Night Live , Glow ) signing on, along with Julie Hagerty ( Airplane , Instant Family ), Vanessa Bell Calloway (SHAMELESS, Saints & Sinners ), Tim Russ ( iCarly ) and Jason Michael Snow ( Book of Mormon ). The 10-episode series is executive produced and stars Emmy ^® nominated and Golden Globe ^®  winning actor Don Cheadle and stars two-time Tony ^® Award nominee and Grammy ^® winner Andrew Rannells ( Girls) and Regina Hall ( Girls Trip ). Paul Scheer ( The League ) also stars. Creators David Caspe ( Happy Endings) and Jordan Cahan ( My Best Friend’s Girl) serve as executive producers and showrunners. Emmy nominees Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg ( Preacher, Superbad ) are executive producers and directed the pilot. Currently in production, BLACK MONDAY will premiere in January.

Dern will play Rod, a legendary trader, while Sanz will play Wayne, a Wall Street wild man who works at Mo’s (Cheadle) Jammer Group. Rauch will play Shira, the loving wife of trader Keith (Scheer). Hagerty is Jackie Georgina, the matriarch of a designer denim empire. Bell Calloway and Russ will play Dawn’s (Hall) artist mother Ruth and professor father Walter. Finally, Snow is playing Mike, a Broadway actor. Previously announced guest star Kadeem Hardison ( A Different World ) will play Spencer, Dawn’s husband.

A co-production between SHOWTIME and Sony Pictures Television , BLACK MONDAY guest stars also include Yassir Lester ( Making History ), Michael James Scott ( Aladdin on Broadway) and Eugene Cordero (Kong: Skull Island ), with recurring guest stars Casey Wilson ( Happy Endings) , Ken Marino ( Wet Hot American Summer), and Kurt Braunohler ( Bunk).

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.

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