{"id":10001,"date":"2020-05-12T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:48:27","slug":"showtimer-seven-episode-series-the-good-lord-bird-to-premiere-on-sunday-august-9-10pm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/12\/showtimer-seven-episode-series-the-good-lord-bird-to-premiere-on-sunday-august-9-10pm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Showtime(R) Seven-Episode Series &#8220;The Good Lord Bird&#8221; To Premiere on Sunday, August 9 @ 10PM [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10003\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/good-lord-bird-5-12-2020-05005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/good-lord-bird-5-12-2020-05005.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/good-lord-bird-5-12-2020-05005-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/good-lord-bird-5-12-2020-05005-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/good-lord-bird-5-12-2020-05005-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>SHOWTIME(R) has released the official poster and trailer for its new limited series THE GOOD LORD BIRD, premiering on Sunday, August 9 at 10PM ET\/PT. Starring and executive produced by Oscar(R) nominee Ethan Hawke, who plays the controversial abolitionist John Brown, the seven-episode series is from Blumhouse Television and based on the National Book Award-winning novel <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/35TMlC3\">The Good Lord Bird<\/a> by bestselling author James McBride.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-Tm63y-S4s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>THE GOOD LORD BIRD is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown&#8217;s motley family of abolitionist soldiers during Bleeding Kansas &#8211; a time when the state was a battleground between pro- and anti-slavery forces &#8211; and eventually finds himself participating in the famous 1859 raid on the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry. 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