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Billions at Showtime’s “For Your Consideration” – June 4, 2019

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Emmy: For Your Consideration

JaniaJania I Fan Fun with Damian Lewis I June 4, 2019

Last night, Billions took center stage for Showtime’s Emmy consideration panel. “For Your Consideration” is a campaign rally where the goal is to get the story of a show, its actors and showrunners, into the minds and hearts of folks making Emmy nominations. In the crowd of shows, you gotta make yours stand out and cast members Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, and Asia Kate Dillon along with showrunners David Levien and Brian Koppelman did just that in a vibrant conversation with Jake Tapper where they were asked questions about their show and characters.

You can hear the conversation at least for the next few hours on the show’s Instagram. (If you’re like me and need your child to show you how to work instagram stories, some tips to save you the embarrassment: Works only on mobile, click the avatar. The desktop version has some cute stills and gifs from the event but not the live video.) No worries if you don’t get it, that’s what we’re for! Here, I’ll transcribe some of the conversation. Continue reading Billions at Showtime’s “For Your Consideration” – June 4, 2019

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Damian Chats with Adoring Fans in Central Park

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Damian Lewis is Surrounded by a Gaggle of Adoring Female Fans as He Soaks Up the Sun in New York City

Eve Buckland I Daily Mail I June 4, 2019

He is an acclaimed actor known for his starring roles in Homeland and Billions.

And Damian Lewis proved he was still down to earth despite his meteoric success as he happily posed with a gaggle of adoring female fans in New York City‘s Central Park on Monday.

The Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood star, 48, looked delighted as he was approached by a glamorous fan as he soaked up the sun on a park bench.

For the fans: Damian Lewis proved he was still down to earth despite his meteoric success as he happily posed with a gaggle of adoring female fans in NYC’s Central Park on Monday

Given the actor’s star status it wasn’t long before a large group of fans gathered, with Damian ever the gentleman as he graciously chatted with the adoring group.

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Damian will be the Guest on LIVE Kelly and Ryan!

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Set your DVRs

TV Scoop I Broadway World I May 31, 2019

LIVE with Kelly and Ryan will welcome “Billions” star DAMIAN LEWIS, and magician DAN WHITE for the “Live” audience on June 4 Tuesday. And “Lil’ Champions Week” will continue with a demo from 11-year-old sport stacking champ KAITLYN QUINN.

“Live with Kelly and Ryan” is distributed in national Syndication by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International. The show is produced by WABC-TV in New York and executive produced by Michael Gelman, Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest.

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From the Trader’s Desk: Billions S4 E10 New Year’s Day – May 31, 2019

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Moments in Time

by Lady Trader I Fan Fun with Damian Lewis I May 31, 2019

And so we’re told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
New Year’s Day – U2

Hello and welcome to the Trader’s Desk. I know I have said this a few times (and we still have two episodes left) but this may be my favorite episode of the season! From the opening, to getting answers to questions I have had for 4 seasons, this was exactly the episode I needed after last week’s break.

I want to break my post down into two parts: quick observations, and then diving into particular moments. I believe certain moments of “New Year’s Day” are pivotal for some of our favorite characters.

Observations

I could not think of a better opening sequence than the one we were privileged to get this week. The combination of the wintery scenes of my favorite places in downtown Manhattan, accompanied by the unique voice of Bono from one of my favorite bands, U2, was just simply genius. I have had the pleasure of seeing U2 in concert several times, and all I can say is that there are front men, and then there’s Bono.

Taylor buying up shares in the main supplier to Rebecca’s Saler’s stores is a smart move. TMC basically controls the oxygen to the stores now, since Kling Appliances was 63% of Saler’s revenue. Rebecca will try to look for another supplier to buy, but some of the names she mentioned (Samsung, LG) are huge companies. The market cap of Samsung is $272B, and while smaller, the market cap of LG is $4.8B. Neither one are really options for Rebecca, since Saler’s has more debt than cash. It will be very interesting to see how this works, or if Axe can ride to the rescue once again for Rebecca.

Bonnie is now the Axe Cap IR person? This just seems strange. Don’t get me wrong – I love Bonnie, but I truly think she is much better at her Bloomberg trading than out meeting with current and potential clients. Bonnie’s personality is an “acquired” taste, so I’m wondering if this was done to break up her budding relationship with Dollar Bill. As always, Billions doesn’t do things just to do them, so I’m curious to see where this new role takes Bonnie. Continue reading From the Trader’s Desk: Billions S4 E10 New Year’s Day – May 31, 2019

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Billions Dining Guide Season 4, Episodes 1-9 UPDATED – May 10, 2019

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Eat and Drink Like a Billionaire

by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | April 16, 2019 (updated May 10, 2019)

One of my favorite things about my favorite TV show is how it showcases the New York dining scene from hole-in-the-walls to neighborhood gems to Michelin-starred restaurants. And it has been my pleasure to share the information about restaurants appearing on the show first in my weekly recaps and then in a full dining guide by the end of the season for Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3.

And now that our Billions dining guides are some of the most popular posts on the blog, and that we constantly get questions about the restaurants on the show, I have decided to kick off our dining guide early with the restaurants our characters visited in the first two episodes in Season 4 and update the post as we go. Continue reading Billions Dining Guide Season 4, Episodes 1-9 UPDATED – May 10, 2019

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‘Billions,’ ‘Succession’ and the Making of Wealth Porn – March 14, 2019

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The Ultrawealthy. The 1 Percent of the 1 Percent

by Alexis Soloski | New York Times | March 14, 2019

Eric Daman, the “Billions” costume designer, works with the actor Damian Lewis on set. Credit Antonio Santos for The New York Times

Two years ago, Aidan Sleeper needed to find an apartment.

Sleeper, the locations manager for “Billions,” returning Sunday for its fourth season on Showtime, scouted more than 100 places that list for tens of millions of dollars, but he couldn’t find the right one. “It was impossible,” he said.

The apartment wasn’t for his own use — he and his wife rent in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. No, he had to lock down a Manhattan residence for Bobby Axelrod, the “Billions” hedge fund phenom played by Damian Lewis. The space couldn’t be comfortable or cozy. It needed to intimidate, astound, overwhelm, gut punch your breath away.

“We always joke, ‘billionaire, not millionaire,’” Sleeper said on a January morning at the “Billions” production office in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as he scrolled through a desktop folder of photos. He clicked for a moment on a $65 million triplex that hadn’t impressed him when he toured it: “You walk in there and it’s like, really?” He shrugged and scrolled on.

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Damian Attends Cradle of Champions Premiere – Sept 21, 2018

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The Night was a Knock-Out!

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | September 21, 2017

On Thursday, September 20, 2018 Damian attended the exclusive premiere screening of Showtime’s Cradle of Champions at Village East Cinema, a movie theater located in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. The story is about three young boxers fighting for their lives in the oldest, biggest, most important amateur boxing tournament in the world: New York’s Daily News Golden Gloves. The Golden Gloves is an amateur competition originating in 1927 as an U.S. intercities tournament, the winner receiving a gold medal and a pair of miniature golden gloves.

Source: Instagram @thiagolivemusic

Source: Instagram @colonyconfidential

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Filming Billions Today – Sept 14, 2018

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Fan Photos on the Streets of New York

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | September 14, 2018

Instagram @suzara

According to this fan on social media, production was shooting Billions on her block in the neighborhood of Carnegie Hill, New York on Friday, September 14, 2018. Then this fan tweeted:

“Nice to bump into @lewis_damian in New York tonight @SHO_Billions #billions“

Source: Twitter @mmiittcchh14

And finally, another fan reported on Twitter that Billions was filming that evening:

Excellent dinner at Sparks Steak House for my first night in NY. Then come out to find they’re filming a scene for Billions. So, @lewis_damian, what time at @Carra23’s bar in the morning for the @LFC game?

— Nathan Phillips (@nathp) September 15, 2018

We can’t wait for season 4! #TeamAxe

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Another Billion Dollar Day – Sept 13, 2018

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Axe and Wags Together Again

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | September 13, 2018

Source: Instagram @mere_diamond

Damian Lewis and David Costabile pose for a picture at the Carlyle Hotel in New York on Thursday evening, September 13, 2018. Costabile plays Wags, Axe’s lieutenant and right-hand man on Showtime’s hit series Billions, which is currently filming season four. Then later that evening, another photo surfaced indicating the filming had been occurring all day outside.

Source: Instagram @mairead1309

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Fifty Billion Shades of Gray – Aug 24, 2018

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Billions: Integrating Mental Health, Finance, Silicon Valley Industries and Law and Order, with a Little Yonkers-Secret-Recipe-Pizza

by Anna Kornbluh | Los Angeles Review of Books | August 24, 2018

Ten years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the global financial crisis of 2008. Democrats were eight years in power, and their failure to prosecute the corporate criminals behind the crisis surely ranks as their biggest legacy. That failure was the condition of possibility for the anti-elite narrative that inspired the white working class and the white upper class to support a genuinely fascist insurgency before and beyond November 2016. It was also the condition of possibility for Billions.

Across its three seasons on Showtime, Billions explores the aftermath of Lehman’s and Obama’s 2008 peaks, tracking the waning and waxing faculty of elite professionals to steer their careers and helm the most powerful country in the world. The show is built around an extended parallel between outer-borough upstart Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), principal of the wildly fruitful hedge fund Axe Capital, and Manhattan WASP Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), US Attorney for the New York Southern District and hero of a counterfactual recent past in which 81 bankers and traders were successfully prosecuted for their outlaw engineering of toxic asset slides. Rhoades fancies himself a just warrior, fighting against “[these] Teflon corporations that defraud the American people on a grand scale.” As the series opens he levels his gaze at Axe, the Moby-Dick of parkour finance.

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Billions Location Guide, Season 3 – June 25, 2018

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**Take the Billions Tour in New York City and Beyond**

by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | June 25, 2018

Billions is a dream show, not only because our favorite actor Damian Lewis is in it, but also because New York, from its landmarks to its city parks and to its quirky shops, appears as a cast member in the show. We particularly love it that Billions is taking over New York, the big film studio that it is, shooting all over the place, from Manhattan to Queens to Brooklyn to The Bronx to Long Island and to northern suburbs. So we have put together this Billions Season 3 Location Guide as a loving tribute to our most favorite place on earth and a heartfelt thank you to the show creators for writing a love letter to the city.

Hope you pick and choose and take your own Billions tour in New York City and beyond and give us feedback! In case you missed our Locations Guide for Season 1 and Season 2, you can check them out here and here. And don’t forget about our Dining Guide, Season 3.

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Billions Dining Guide, Season 3 – June 10, 2018

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What the Fork?

by Damianista | Fan Fun with Damian Lewis | June 10, 2018

Source: Showtime

It is no secret that one of my favorite things about my favorite show is how it showcases the New York dining scene from hole-in-the-walls and neighborhood gems, to Michelin-starred restaurants. In case you missed previous season Dining Guides, here is the information about restaurants appearing on the show for Season 1 and Season 2. Continue reading Billions Dining Guide, Season 3 – June 10, 2018