
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2019
- Channel
- Sky Arts
- Episodes
- 1
- Starring
- Sophie Kennedy Clark, Calvin Demba, David Bamber, Paul Kaye, Mollie Lambert, Chase Brown, Joe Hill, Simon Harris and Sarah Solemani
- Writer
- Sarah Solemani
- Directors
- Adam Wimpenny and Sarah Solemani
- Producers
- Adam Morane-Griffiths and Joe Hill
Before she was famous, Madonna had a short but passionate and influential relationship with Jean-Michel Basquiat, a pioneer and darling of the 1980s New York art scene. Basquiat was riding high while Madonna was a coat check girl, but she already had the self-belief to know she had something special.
This myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before she infamously door-stepped music producer Seymour Stein at his hospital bedside where he signed her on the spot. This is a poignant moment, before Basquiat's untimely death and just before Madonna broke through to "take over the motherfucking world".
- Part of
- Production company
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 15th May 2019 on Sky Arts at 9pm
- Episode length
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Wednesday 27th November 2019 at 11:30pm