Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime Series Arrives in July

Showtime has been doing its own stealth promotion in the last few days with videos teasing a comedy that is "the most dangerous show in the history of television." As the video promised, "Something huge is coming July 15." Cohen has been working on the seven-episode show for the past year, with the promise that it will explore "diverse individuals, from the infamous to the unknown across the poltical and cultural spectrum."

On Sunday (July 8), Cohen added a short video to his Instagram account, with the message: "Imagine if Sacha Baron Cohen had been undercover secretly filming a new show for a year..."

In voice-over, Cohen — presumably in character — can be heard asking former Vice President Dick Cheney to sign his "waterboard kit." Cheney is seen signing something and then jokes, "That's the first time I've ever signed a waterboard."

 

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Though Cohen initially rose to fame as the character Ali G on the U.K. network Channel 4 on The 11 O'Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, in recent years he has primarily starred in films including Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Brothers Grimsby (which he also wrote and produced), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and Les Miserables.

That is set to change with the Showtime series and Netflix's upcoming limited series The Spy, in which Cohen will star as legendary secret agent Eli Cohen, a spy for Israel in Syria in the early 1960s.

This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.