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Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule will now air before the 2020 presidential election in November. The highly-anticipated series, led by Jeff Daniels as former FBI director James Comey, was originally scheduled to debut in late November, but the four-part drama will now air on Sunday, September 27 and Monday, September 28, the network said in a statement.

Showtime’s Wednesday afternoon announcement comes just one day after The Comey Rule writer and director Billy Ray expressed his disappointment about the series’ previously-scheduled “late November” release. “We all were hoping to get this story in front of the American people months before the coming election,” Ray wrote in an email to the cast obtained by The New York Times. “Word started drifting back to me that a decision about our airdate had been made at the very highest levels of Viacom: All talk of our airing before the election was suddenly a ‘non-starter.'”

Now, it seems that Ray and the cast have gotten their wish. According to Showtime, The Comey Rule will air on consecutive nights in late September, six weeks before the November 3 presidential election.

Based on James Comey’s New York Times bestselling book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, The Comey Rule stars Jeff Daniels as the seventh FBI director and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump. The two-part, four-hour miniseries tracks Comey and Trump’s combative relationship and serves as “an immersive, behind the headlines account of the turbulent events surrounding the 2016 election and its aftermath,” says Showtime.

Comey served as FBI director from 2013 to 2017, when he was fired by President Trump over the Michael Flynn investigation. His book title refers to the loyalty demanded of him by Trump, who, in recent years, has railed against Comey’s unwillingness to prosecute Hillary Clinton or dismiss the Russia investigation.

The Comey Rule will hold a prominent spot in Showtime’s fall lineup, which also includes drama We Hunt Together and Ethan Hawke’s The Good Lord Bird. Political junkies will also enjoy The Reagans, a four-part documentary series about the unexamined aspects of the Reagan White House.