Release Date:
01/21/2000
Air Date:
Tuesday, 10 PM
TV Network:
TNT
Financier Bernard Baruch said he knew he had to get out of the market when, one day in 1929, he received a stock tip from his shoeshine boy. While todays investors dont often shine their shoeshell, most day traders dont even wear shoesit does feel like everybodys playing the Street.
Lawyer shows and doctor shows have been TV staples for a generation. Stockbrokers, for whatever reason, just werent sexy enough for a series. But when the guy who butters your morning bagel uses words like NASDAQ and IPO, traders are bound to become the new heroes. This fall Fox weighs in with The Street, a star-studded new series about an investment firm. But TNT gets there first with Bull.
The cable net has obviously invested heavily in its initial original series offering, with established talent on both sides of the camera. Created and written by Law & Order producer Michael S. Chernuchin, its as smart as that series while crackling with the weird energy of a Wall Street bull market.
Heir to a powerful, old-line brokerage house, Robert Ditto Roberts III rebels against his iron-fisted grandfather and starts his own maverick firm. Underfunded, with no clients and no shortage of enemies, Ditto recruits a team of young Turks convinced that a new economy demands new talent.
Donald Moffat seems born to play the grandfather, an unsmiling eminence known on Wall Street at the Kaiser. A study in arrogance, Moffats is just one of several strong performances in the pilot episode. New York Undercovers Malik Yoba is also excellent as the Harvard-educated son of a privileged black family who gets his first real taste of bigotry in the Old Boy network.
But Stanley Tucci owns the show as Hunter Lasky, a lethal negotiator who joins Dittos infant firm. His characters mordant wit is already a signature for what promises to be an excellent series.
Lawyer shows and doctor shows have been TV staples for a generation. Stockbrokers, for whatever reason, just werent sexy enough for a series. But when the guy who butters your morning bagel uses words like NASDAQ and IPO, traders are bound to become the new heroes. This fall Fox weighs in with The Street, a star-studded new series about an investment firm. But TNT gets there first with Bull.
The cable net has obviously invested heavily in its initial original series offering, with established talent on both sides of the camera. Created and written by Law & Order producer Michael S. Chernuchin, its as smart as that series while crackling with the weird energy of a Wall Street bull market.
Heir to a powerful, old-line brokerage house, Robert Ditto Roberts III rebels against his iron-fisted grandfather and starts his own maverick firm. Underfunded, with no clients and no shortage of enemies, Ditto recruits a team of young Turks convinced that a new economy demands new talent.
Donald Moffat seems born to play the grandfather, an unsmiling eminence known on Wall Street at the Kaiser. A study in arrogance, Moffats is just one of several strong performances in the pilot episode. New York Undercovers Malik Yoba is also excellent as the Harvard-educated son of a privileged black family who gets his first real taste of bigotry in the Old Boy network.
But Stanley Tucci owns the show as Hunter Lasky, a lethal negotiator who joins Dittos infant firm. His characters mordant wit is already a signature for what promises to be an excellent series.