Monday Night Mayhem is a 2002 television biopic about Howard Cosell played by John Turturro. It debuted on the U.S. cable TV network TNT. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened. ... Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen (March 25, 1918 â April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist on American television. ... John Nicodemus Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award winning American actor noted for his performances in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Five Corners (1987), Do The Right Thing (1989), Barton Fink (1991), Men of Respect (1991), The Big Lebowski... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is a cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and launched with a showing of his favorite film, Gone with the Wind, on October 3, 1988. ...