'Comey Rule' Trailer: Jeff Daniels' FBI Director Faces Off Against Trump as He Fights for "Truth" Amid Russia Investigation

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“I imagine we will be on his radar and I think it is likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes, but that’s just a guess,” The Comey Rule director Billy Ray said  today on how Donald Trump will react to the upcoming Showtime event series.

The Comey Rule almost didn't premiere before the 2020 presidential election. The cable network originally slated the four-hour drama for late November, but shortly after creator Billy Ray publicly expressed his "disappointment" with the scheduling decision, Showtime reversed course and moved up the premiere of The Comey Rule to late September.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough “The Comey Rule” is debuting just slightly more than a month ahead of the 2020 presidential election, creator-director Billy Ray did not make the series to change anyone’s vote.“The reason I did this was because I felt that the Russians had had a profound and unhappy effect on our political process in 2016 and I wanted the American public to know about that before they went to the polls in 2020,” he said during a virtual panel for the

Ted Johnson Donald Trump told Bob Woodward in early February that the coronavirus was dangerous and deadly, but a month and a half later admitted that he minimized its threat because he didn’t want to create a panic, according to excerpts of Woodward’s new book obtained by CNN.“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump said in a March 19 interview with Woodward.

A young Chinese journalist battles corruption, state power, and his own conscience in The Best is Yet to Come, the debut feature from Chinese director Jing Wang. The drama, which premieres in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, before moving on to Toronto's Discovery sidebar, is set in 2003 in the aftermath of the SARS epidemic in China.

Jim Carrey has written an essay saying the US is facing “catastrophe” if Donald Trump is reelected.The actor explained in The Atlantic how much damage he thinks POTUS has already caused, comparing the politician’s current behaviour to The Godfather‘s Michael Corleone.“The truth is, we should all be seriously concerned,” Carrey’s essay begins.“The United States faces catastrophe. That’s a word from my world—drama.

bombshell piece published Thursday night, Goldberg reported that Trump had referred to veterans — including former POW and senator John McCain — as “losers” and “suckers.”“There’s a general sort of shock and disbelief that someone — not even that the person would articulate views that way — I think there’s genuine curiosity about why a person would ever think that way or how a person comes to those thoughts,” said Goldberg, who also reported that Trump considers those who died in battle to be

While the filmmakers behind Showtime’s two-part “The Comey Rule” have clearly overestimated the public’s desire for— uhhh, gestures in the general direction of anything and everything in entertainment vaguely resembling the Trump Shitshow, any ancillary offshoots (see the Fox News portrait “The Loudest Voice”) and generally, politics in the corrosive age of toxic politics— writer/director Bill Ray’s “The Comey Rule” does open up with a good, if simplistic, bit and intriguing question.

Chances are good that if you're watching Showtime's uneven but entertaining miniseries The Comey Rule, you're not tuning in to see if Jeff Daniels is able to convincingly play 6'8" FBI beanpole James Comey (or to marvel at Jonathan Banks' uncanny casting as James Clapper). No, you're probably curious about how very Irish Brendan Gleeson (the Harry Potter films, In Bruges, Mr.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe first character we hear speak in “The Comey Rule,” Showtime’s two-episode limited series about the unhappy tenure of the former FBI director launching Sept. 27, is not James Comey at all.

The feud between Real Housewives of New Jersey alum Danielle Staub and Andy Cohen may be perplexing, but it looks like it could be heating up!

The new trailer for “Come Play” initially hides its horrifying plot by showcasing how great the use of iPads and smartphones can be for children on the spectrum, especially in the case of young Oliver, who is mute and only communicates through whatever handheld device he has on him. But this is a horror movie after all, and you know shit is about to get bad.

trailer.The series is based on Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty and more than a year of interviews with a number of key players.The Comey Rule is stated as being ‘an immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation.’‘The Comey Rule is not a biopic of one man, but is instead the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics

The first full trailer for The Comey Rule, starring Brendan Gleeson and Jeff Daniels, has been released.

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson It is over a month until The Comey Rule limited series premieres on Showtime, but the still raging drama between Donald Trump and fired FBI Director James Comey was live tonight on cable news on Night 1 of the Republican National Convention.“If you put it in a script, I’m sure it would get rejected for not being realistic enough, that the chairman of the President’s campaign is working with a Russian intelligence officer,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid

The very first trailer for Showtime‘s limited series The Comey Rule was released on Monday morning, and all we can say after seeing it is we want MORE!

The official trailer and key art for Showtime’s The Comey Rule is here!

The Comey Rule is coming next month, and the cable network has released the first full trailer, which gives us the best look yet at Brendan Gleeson's interpretation of Donald Trump. It's quite an impression, with Gleeson nailing the president's tone and cadence but retaining his own signature softness on consonants.