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Billions Introduces New Guest Star in Season 4 – Jan 31, 2019

My Brother, Oh Brother

by Denise Petski | Deadline | January 31, 2019

Showtime broke some casting news during its presentation Thursday at the TCA Winter Tour. Michael Raymond-James has been booked as a guest spot on Billions. Raymond-James will play U.S. Attorney Bryan Connerty’s (Toby Leonard Moore) black sheep brother who’s taken a very different path in life. Raymond-James tweeted:

Season 4 of Billions takes ambition and betrayal to the next level with former enemies Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), and Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff), the chief counselor to each, teaming up to eradicate their rivals, including Grigor Andolov (guest star John Malkovich), Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon), Bryan Connerty (Moore) and Waylon “Jock” Jeffcoat (guest star Clancy Brown). The series also stars David Costabile, Condola Rashad, Kelly AuCoin, Jeffrey DeMunn and Malin Akerman.

Billions Season 4 will air March 17, 2019 on Showtime.

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‘Billions’ Announces Season 3 Air Date and Drops Trailer – Jan 6, 2018

Billions Announces Season 3 Air Date and Drops Trailer

by Gingersnap – damian.lewis.com – January 6, 2018

Source: Twitter @SHO_Billions

Damian, along with the Billions core cast and co-creators, attended the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour today to announce when season three will air and to discuss some highlights of what we can expect from the show. The Television Critics Association (TCA) represents more than 200 professional journalists who cover television for publications across the United States and Canada. This year’s TCA Winter Press Tour was held at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California.

According to the posted schedule, Showtime’s President and CEO David Nevins, along with Gary Levine, President of Programming, held an “Executive Session Q&A,” soon followed by the Billions panel discussion, which included Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Asia Kate Dillon, Executive Producer and Co-Creator Brian Koppelman, and Executive Producer & Co-Creator David Levien.

Left to right: Brian Koppelman, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff, Asia Kate Dillon, Malin Akerman, Damian Lewis and David Levien. Source: Twitter @SHO_Billions

It was reported that the press has been given the first three episodes to view, lucky dogs! We have anticipated Billions returning for season three and wrote about it here.  Billions, and Damian, will return to your television screen on….

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Damian Attends Berlin International Film Festival for Queen of the Desert – Feb 6, 2015

Berlinale 2015 – Ladies and Gentlemen, Queen of the Desert has finally arrived!

by Damianista – Fan Fun with Damian Lewis – 6 February 2015

Queen of the Desert Press Conference at Berlinale 2015 – source: Berlinale Livestream

Queen of the Desert, the highly anticipated biopic about Gertrude Bell, a historian, novelist and member of the British Secret Service, directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis, James Franco and Robert Pattinson has arrived at Berlinale 2015 complete with a photo shoot, press screening followed by a press conference with some FUN moments and, of course, the Red Carpet. We were extremely lucky to be able to see both the Press Conference and the Red Carpet LIVE on the festival website. That’s what I call public service.  You can now watch the Press Conference and the Red Carpet here. Thank you, Berlinale!

Queen of the Desert Press Conference Highlights:

Let’s start with the official plot of the movie from Berlinale and then talk about “Damian Moments” of the day!

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Damian Lewis Says Henry VIII “As Big A Brand As Coca-Cola” – Jan 19, 2015

Damian Lewis Says Henry VIII “As Big A Brand As Coca-Cola,” While Plugging PBS’s ‘Wolf Hall’

Television Critics Association Press Tour, Winter Tour, Panel Discussion

by Lisa de Moraes – Deadline – January 19, 2015

Damian Lewis speaks onstage during the ‘MASTERPIECE “Wolf Hall” panel discussion at the PBS Network portion of the Television Critics Association press tour at Langham Hotel on January 19, 2015 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

“Henry [VIII] as a brand, is right up there with Coca Cola,” Damian Lewis said, of the oft-portrayed Tudor king he plays in PBS’s six-part miniseries Wolf Hall.  “My vanity will always relish a challenge,” Lewis said, of trying to turn in a fresh performance of the historical figure. “In fact, that probably encourages me.”

Not so fresh, maybe, were his answers to question about his character, on stage this morning at Winter TV Press Tour 2015; his “syphilitic, philandering Elvis” line, in re how Henry VIII is most often perceived/portrayed, is getting a little worn out as Lewis make the press rounds to promote the project.

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