Doped up on pedal power
Premiering on July 9 at 8pm on HBO, the sports mockumentary “Tour De Pharmacy” will take viewers back in time to the year 1982, a dark time in cycling history, when the sport’s most venerable, time-honoured race was marred by the doping of virtually all of its competitors.
Riddled with nefarious characters, that year’s competition was a hornet’s nest of moral depravity. Through the perspective of five riders, “Tour De Pharmacy” gives an inside look into the grim realities of the darkest event in a sport notoriously tainted by controversy.
Starring and executive produced by Andy Samberg (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), and written and executive produced by Murray Miller (“King of the Hill), this fictional tale takes a none-too-serious look at the sordid world of professional cycling.
Among the notables making appearances in “Tour De Pharmacy are: John Cena, Daveed Diggs, Orlando Bloom, Freddie Highmore, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Julia Ormond, Dolph Lundgren, James Marsden, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fielder, Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Joe Buck, Mike Tyson, J.J. Abrams, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Webber, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Lance Armstrong.
“Tour De Pharmacy” marks Samberg and Miller’s second collaboration for HBO under their Legends of Sport banner, following the 2015 mockumentary “7 Days In Hell,” which was called a “bawdy, outlandish skewering of tennis” by the New York Times, and “strange and splendid” by the Los Angeles Times.
