• This is the first Monday of the fall TV season without a new episode of Life starring Damian Lewis!

  Starting this week the show will air only on Friday nights; episode 2.05 titled Crushed (spoilers!) will broadcast on October 17th. All current Life episodes are available for online viewing at NBC.com.

• Spoilers! The plot synopsis for Life episode 2.08 titled “Black Friday” is now available at the NBC Universal Media site. The episode is scheduled to air on Friday, November 17, 2008:
  When a murder takes place in a mall on the biggest shopping day of the year Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) and Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) end up searching for more than just the killer. In a moment of confusion the body disappears, Crews and Reese are then faced with the task of tracking down both the body and the killer in one of the largest malls in America on one if the busiest shopping days of the year. Meanwhile, Crews gets an unexpected visit from an F.B.I. agent. Donal Logue and Brent Sexton also star.

• Michele Greppi (aka “The Insider”) wrote this terrific review of Life for TV Guide.

• Click here and here for more great reviews of Life.

• The Escapist with Damian Lewis screened at the Ghent Film Festival last weekend and director Rupert Wyatt was there to introduce the film. Damian Lewis fans were well represented at the festival! Click here to read what Linda from Belgium had to say about the film and click here to read a review from Antoinette from France!

• Once again Cambridge Jones, the brilliant photographic artist, has included Damian Lewis among the celebrity subjects in his photographic exhibitions!

  The striking image above is one of two new photos of Damian in the Portraiture collection and there are 3 additional pictures of him in the Music and Models collection. Click here to view all of the new images in the warehouse and click here to enjoy some of Jones’s earlier pictures of Damian Lewis.

  Thanks to Jen in Australia for the high-res pictures and to Melinda for the links.

• Spoilers! DJ has new screencaps for us! These are from episode 2.04 of Life titled “Not For Nothing” which aired in the US and Canada on October 10, 2008.

  Click here for information about the 1971 Stanford University psychosocial “Prison Experiment” which was the premise for this episode.

• YouTube Update!

  » Click here to watch the promo (posted by TubedOutNow2) for Life episode 2.05 titled “Crushed” that will broadcast in the US and Canada on October 17th.

  » Spoiler! Click here for “An Education” from “Not For Nothing” posted by LifeTVZen.

• Damian Lewis is on the cover of today’s issue of the Evening Standard!

  He discusses his portrayal of Charlie Crews and talks about living and working with his family in Los Angeles. This article finally gives a date – October 30th – for the UK premiere of Life – Season 1 on
  ITV3!

  Click here to read the complete article in the Warehouse and thanks to Jace for the news, Dotty for the link, Kaz and Melinda for the scans and screen captures, and Selene for the posts; it really was a team effort!

• The wonderful caricature above of Reese and Crews (everybody’s favorite crime-busting duo) was created by Michael Alan Harvey and posted at pfunn along with a very interesting review of the show that includes these comments:
  “But the key to the series’ creative success, we are convinced, belongs to its stars. Damian Lewis (”Band of Brothers”) stars as Charlie Crews, bringing many twists to what might otherwise have been just a traditional tough-cop role. While Lewis is a handsome guy, he’s not one of the rugged-though-bland, cookie-cutter Hunks of the Moment that might otherwise have been placed in a starring role on a cop show (as in, oh, say, the new “Knight Rider”). He’s tall and lanky, with radioactive red hair and eyes that can pierce or sparkle, depending on the scene. What makes Charlie Crews most intriguing is that he might just be insane. Lewis understands that, and knows precisely when to evoke that possibility.

  Sarah Shahi (”The L Word”) is Dani Reese, and in another actress’ hands the role might have devolved into another edition of The Thankless Female Partner (Who Just So Happens To Be Incredibly Hot). But Shahi often makes Reese the co-star of “Life,” and not just a supporting role. She evinces a steady mixture of confidence, fear, uncertainty, pain, determination and, at time, even admiration for her partner.”

• Reminder! In the US be sure to watch Life episode 2.04 titled “Not For Nothing” (spoilers!) on Friday, October 10th at 10pm ET on NBC (check your local listings!)

• Spoilers! Click here for new high-res pictures from Life episode 2.09 “Badge Bunny”.

• Wouldn’t this view greatly improve the scenery on your morning commute?!

  Peqe shared this photo of a gigantic billboard in Mexico City advertising Damian Lewis in Life on Wednesday nights on the AXN network.

• Britain’s ITV3 Network has been deliberately vague about the date for the UK premiere of Life. Since last March they have been using terms like “coming soon” and “this autumn.”

  Digital Spy’s “Premiere List Page” now shows an unconfirmed date and time in November for the program’s British debut:

  Life
  Season 1
  Date: Nov TBC
  Time: TBC
  Network: ITV3

  Apparently “soon” and “autumn” have different meanings in the UK!

  Hang tough, UK fans! Life is “coming soon!”

• Damian Lewis fans in Australia are starting to receive the region 4 DVD for The Baker which has recently been released there.

Wow! Talk about a great Christmas present! Maybe if you are very, very good this year you will find this attractive package under the tree on Christmas morning!

• Click here for more hi-res photos from Dryope (bless her!) These are from episode 2.08 of Life titled “Black Friday” which is scheduled for US broadcast on November 7, 2008.

• Click on the arrow above to view the recent Hollywood 411 on-set interview with Damian Lewis and Donal Logue discussing season 2 of Life. The clip is also available on YouTube.

• Once again we are indebted to DJ for more great screencaps. These are for Life episode 2.03 titled “The Business of Miracles” which just aired in the US on October 6, 2008.

  This episode is now available for free, online viewing at nbc.com.

• Attention Damian Lewis fans in the UK!

Spoilers! We still don’t have a broadcast date but the ITV3 press release is now available for UK premiere of Life season 1. The press pack offers a great interview with Damian Lewis that includes these comments:

“The ongoing narrative of the show is Charlie’s mission to find out who set him up, why they set him up and how deep the corruption goes. That coupled with the crime that he is investigating each week with his new partner, Dani Reese, is a nice dual thrust to the storytelling. The main reason I took the job and also why I love playing the character is I think it slightly subverts the genre of your average cop show. We’re used to seeing gritty, realistic procedural cop shows whether it’s Boomtown or The Wire – this is a much lighter show and it’s all based on the fact that this man comes out of prison radically altered. He has a rather cracked personality and soul after his ordeal. But rather than admitting darkness, there’s a great joy and light that comes from it: he resolves to seize life by the throat and live it to its full potential. He’s rather childlike and naïve, very much an optimist, and sees the best of everything in the world. It gives a real lightness of touch, and a comedic quality to the show which plays in direct contrast to the darkness of his experience.”

Life will debut on ITV3 this autumn. Thanks to Ann for the links!

• Vote for season 2 of Life at MetaCritic.com!

• Here’s the NBC press release for the Life season 2 premiere television ratings.
• The recent “Life Is Beautiful” interview with Life co-star Sarah Shahi is now available online; click here to view the scans in the Warehouse gallery.

• The Escapist with Damian Lewis will screen at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California on November 6th and 8th; click here for more information. (Thanks to Ryanne for the news!)