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  • Win a free DVD of Life – Season One autographed by Damian Lewis!

    Damian Lewis’s LA associate Sharon has graciously provided us with a (Region 1, US and Canada) DVD boxset of Life – Season One autographed by Damian! To win this great item, just name an episode of Life that included a reference to a “rabbit” or a “bunny”! Send an email with your answer along with your mailing address and include “Life DVD Contest” in the subject line.

    The contest is only open to US and Canadian residents and April 8th is the last day to enter.
    Click here for more information and good luck!


  • Click above to view the trailer for Life episode 2.19 titled “5 Quarts” that will air in the US this Wednesday, March 25th on NBC. (Source: kateblake_2000.)

  • Major spoilers! NBC has released the synopsis for the season 2 finale of Life episode 2.21 titled “One”. This episode will broadcast in the US on April 8th on NBC.


  • Thanks to Westie 14500 for sharing photos of Damian Lewis taken at the Northern Rock All-Star Golf Tournament in August 2006. Click here to view more pictures from this event in the Photo Gallery Warehouse.

  • The Escapist with Damian Lewis will screen at the Independent Film Festival of Boston which runs from April 22 – 28, 2009; click here for more information.

  • Damian Lewis is featured in the “Quiz of the Week’s News” from the BBC ! 🙂

Categories Messages

2008.08.30


  • Damian Lewis’s associate Melissa sent a message saying that Damian is very busy right now and “rushed off his feet.” She also said that baby Gulliver Lewis has dark, brown hair “but there’s not much of it yet!” 😀

  • The season 2 premiere of Life starring Damian Lewis will screen at the Paley Center for Media’s “Fall Preview Parties” in Los Angeles on September 8th and in New York on September 11th. These screenings are open to the public but advance reservations are required.

  • Chris Ball of Cleveland.com reviewed the soon to be released season 1 DVD for Life and said:

    “Crews is underplayed nicely by English actor Damien Lewis, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for the excellent HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers.” Lewis as Crews evokes a little bit of Jimmy Stewart from “Destry Rides Again,” as the Old West sheriff who disarms bad guys with his witticisms instead of six-guns. The difference is that Crews doesn’t hesitate to use his gun when necessary.”

    Click here to read the full article.

  • Tirdad Derakhshani of the Philadelphia Inquirer had this to say about the upcoming, season two debut of Life and the soon-to-be-released season one DVD:

    ‘Life’ gets a reprieve
    NBC will premiere the second season of its little-watched, yet brilliant Zen-meets-Polanski cop show, Life, on Sept. 29. The smart, complicated drama stars Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers) as a cop who served 12 years in prison for a triple murder he didn’t commit. Now he’s back. But he’s not angry: He practices Zen. Then again, he is totally out to get the dirty cops who set him up. And he eats a lot of fresh fruit. (Watch the first season with Life: Season One, due out on DVD Tuesday from Universal Studios.)

  • While Glenn Teichman of the Albany TimesUnion.com had this to say about Life:

    Life,” about a cop, Charlie Crews, who has just been released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, had a great star turn by Damian Lewis (“Band of Brothers”) and a compelling mystery about who framed him. At the end of the season, Crews had found one of the men involved in the frame-up, but the conspiracy apparently goes further. The show returns with a special airing after “Heroes” on Monday, Sept. 29, before moving to its regular time slot on Fridays.

  • Writer/director Rupert Wyatt is a business partner of Damian Lewis and Adrian Sturges in Picture Farm, the British independent film production company. According to Hollywood.com two of Rupert Wyatt’s next films will be produced by Picture Farm. Brian Cox has been cast in the Fourth Wall and Adrian Sturges will produce. Another Picture Farm partner, Ben Freedman, will produce The Trail.

  • Click here for a review of The Escapist with Damian Lewis from Jacob Powell of New Zealand’s Lumiere Reader.

  • AlexxiaMcElroy has posted 2 new Band of Brothers music videos on YouTube titled Whispers In the Dark and Candyman.

Categories Messages

2008.05.06


  • Vote for Damian Lewis in the Hello! Most Attractive Man of the Month contest! The contest will run until the end of May and you can vote every 15 minutes.
  • News from Damian! Melissa forwarded responses from Damian Lewis about his projects:

    » Damian will participate in the NBC Upfront event in New York City which begins on May 12th. The Upfronts are used by the networks to showcase new and returning programs for the upcoming fall season.

    Variety reports that NBC is planning the “NBC Universal Experience,” a circus-like event at 30 Rock in which Madison Avenue men and women, along with the press, will get a taste of all things Peacock.”

    » Damian did not attend the recent Rose d’Or television awards in Lucerne. Life was the only US production nominated for “Best Drama” but it didn’t win; click here for the list of Rose d’Or winning programs.

    » Damian also shared the news that filming for the second season of Life will begin on June 2nd and that the program will premiere in the UK on ITV in the Autumn.

  • There’s good news for Canadian fans of Life because Canwest has renewed their contract with NBC for the right to broadcast the second season of Life; click here to read the full article.
  • Thanks to Watcher Fan for the head’s up about the new Timeline for Life from NBC’s official site for the show.
  • Spoilers! The fans can’t help talking about Charlie Crews! This viewer said:

    “Life” does not insult the intelligence of the viewer, but challenges them through smart writing which distinguishes the show from other crime procedurals. The acting on the show is just as satisfying as the writing, especially the chemistry between the two leads, Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi, is impressive. The characters are not perfect, they have real flaws which makes them fairly interesting to watch.”

    And this viewer’s comments include:

    “I love the way Detective Crews is portrayed by Damian Lewis… He has a unique way of bringing dry humor, with a bit of sarcasm mixed in to this new prime time drama.”

  • Click here to see the new banner for The Escapist.

Categories Messages

2008.03.02


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  • Damian Lewis was on GMTV’s Entertainment Today on Friday for an in-studio interview. Click here in the Multimedia section to download the interview in either Quicktime or AVI format. You can also view it here and here on Youtube. Many thanks to Dotty for providing the wonderful clips! ➡
  • Damian Lewis will be interviewed on The Film Programme this Friday, March 07 on Radio 4. The show airs from 4:30pm – 5:00pm and is made available afterwards for listening online.
  • A small update on Love and Virtue: According to Damian’s associate Melissa, the film is very unlikely to move forward at this time – but
    Damian is still attached if it does happen!
  • Don’t forget: The Baker is released on DVD in the UK on Monday! Click here for UK vendors that sell the DVD.

    This DVD is meant to play on Region 2 DVD players so North Americans would need to buy a region-free/ multi-region DVD player or modify the one they have to make it region-free/multi-region. Click here at the Shop FAQ for more information on that.

Categories Messages

2008.01.12


  • Damian Lewis update! ➡

    A ”Happy New Year” message kindly sent by Damian’s associate Melissa indicates that the Lewis family plan to stay in the UK until the labor strike by the Writers Guild of America is resolved and work resumes on his NBC program Life. The family are all doing well, Helen McCrory will soon be filming her role as Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and preparing to return to the stage in Ibsen’s Rosmersholm opening at the Almeida in May. New baby Gulliver “is very sweet with gorgeous chipmunk cheeks and very alert” and his big sister Manon is an auburn-haired beauty!

  • Spoiler! Brian Ford Sullivan of the Futon Critic has listed Fill It Up (episode 11 of LIFE) as number 34 of the “50 Best Episodes of 2007” saying that “Jack Reese telling Charlie (Damian Lewis) that he didn’t notice he had Rachel Seybolt all along still gives me chills.”

  • According to information posted at the NBC Life community forum a message received from John Miller, Chief Marketing Officer, NBC Universal Television Group said “We believe in the show but we have run out of originals due to the strike…but it will be back.”
  • Click here to download and unzip Damian’s December 3, 2007 video interview on Atlanta & Company for the mid-season finale of Life. This is the interview that includes Damian’s unexpected – but charming – use of the phrase “softly, softly catchee monkey,” a British slang expression meaning “move slowly and cautiously.” Thanks to Kaz for the clip! (11.9 MB, WMV format) 🙂
  • Click here and here to read more positive comments from viewers about Life and Damian Lewis’s mesmerizing portrayal of Detective Charlie Crews.
  • The new season of the PBS Masterpiece Theatre series will premiere in the US on Sunday, January 13th. This season the show will have a new host, a new look, and an new opening that will offer a glimpse of Damian Lewis as Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga; click here for more information.
  • Well-known fashion photographer Ian Rankin recently told the Daily Mail that he appreciates Damian Lewis’s sense of style saying: “Pharrell Williams does it for me, style-wise. So do actors Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. I like the Sixties vibe that Daniel Craig has – when he makes an effort he looks amazing.” 😀

Categories Messages

2007/12/20


  • Damian Lewis Update!
    Information received from Damian’s associate Melissa indicates that the Lewis family are back in the UK for the holidays; here’s the news:

    » The family are doing well and are enjoying their time in Los Angeles during the filming of Life. Right now Damian is just waiting out the labor strike by the Screenwriters Guild before he can begin working again.

    » Last Friday Helen McCrory (with new son Gulliver) took part in wardrobe fittings for her role as Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

    » Damian confirmed that distribution rights for The Baker have been acquired by 2Entertain and they hope to release the film theatrically in the UK in February or March of 2008.

    » Damian and Melissa sent best wishes for the holidays! (Right back at them!) ➡

  • The People’s Choice Awards will broadcast in the US on CBS January 8th and Life has been nominated in the Best New TV Drama award category. However, it was announced today that there will not be a live “red carpet” awards ceremony because of the writers strike. Instead the show “will include pre-recorded acceptance speeches by winners as well as their responses to questions sent in by fans, according to a People’s Choice statement.” 😥

Categories Messages

2007/12/07

  • A message from Damian Lewis’s associate Melissa indicates that the Lewis family are all doing well and that new baby boy Gulliver’s middle name is “Cameron”; click here to read the message. 🙂
  • Update on Life starring Damian Lewis:

    » Listen online to a new Damian Lewis interview from Wednesday’s Bob Rivers Show on KZOK in Seattle.

    » Robin Weigert who plays Lt. Davis on Life also gave a radio interview Wednesday on The Tony Rose Show at 100.7 SAM FM in Bowling Green, KY.

    » Click here and here for information about the great music featured on Life.

    » New clips, recaps, photos, downloads and other materials have been added to the Life site at NBC.com.

    » This Media Blvd interview about Life with co-stars Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi appears to be the source of several recent articles about the show (spoilers!) and also includes the information that Damian’s new film The Baker will be theatrically released in the UK in March and that his appearance in The Escapist is only a cameo role.

    » Click on the links below for more articles and comments about Life (spoilers!)
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  • Click here for an article describing the Dublin locations used for the filming of The Escapist.
  • Director Martha Fiennes gave an interview to the Telegraph about her film Chromophobia starring Damian Lewis that will be released at selected Cineworld theatres in the UK on December 14th.
  • Brides (Nyfes) starring Damian Lewis was screened today, December 7th, at the International Film Festival of Kerala in India; click here to read a viewer’s comments about the film.
  • Click here for an new Damian Lewis fan video from Band of Brothers on YouTube.

Categories Messages

2007/11/04


  • It’s a boy! Miss Manon Lewis has a new baby brother named Gulliver!

    A son was born to Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory on November 2nd! Both Mom and baby are doing fine; click here to read Damian’s message to the fans that was kindly forwarded by his associate Melissa. Congratulations to the Lewis family – we wish you joy!

  • Notices have been received from Amazon.co.uk that orders for the recent DVD releases of Hearts and Bones starring Damian Lewis and
    Frankenstein
    starring Helen McCrory have been shipped; US residents can expect delivery around November 12th.
    These are region 2 DVDs that will only play on multi-region and region 2 DVD players; click here to learn more about DVD regions and players.
  • Thanks to Mick for the news that BBC Radio 4 is currently offering listeners the opportunity to hear Frederick Raphael’s play Fame and Fortune online. The play is a sequel to The Glittering Prizes that featured Damian Lewis in an earlier broadcast.
  • Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi are featured during the final 15 minutes of The Hottest New Faces on TV special that is currently playing in the US on the TV Guide Channel; thanks to Ann for the head’s up!

Categories Messages

2007/10/05


  • In response to a message of congratulations to Damian Lewis (on behalf of all the fans) upon the successful premiere and widespread interest in Life, Damian’s associate Melissa replied that she had sent the message directly to Damian and “he was very pleased to hear about the surge of interest and sent his thanks for the support and the information.”
  • Thanks to Chloegirldie for this link to the song at the end of the extended trailer for Life; but we still don’t know the name of the song or the artist – anybody have any ideas?
  • Click here (and scroll down) to download the recent First Coast News interview with Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi – and thanks to Kaz for the video!
  • The NBC official site for Life has added still photographs from episode 2, Tear Assunder.
  • Tomorrow US viewers will have another chance to view the first two episodes of Life (Merit Badge and Tear Assunder) on the USA network. The pilot episode Merit Badge will also air on Bravo this Sunday; check the schedule for more information.

    » Sat Oct 06 3:00pm Episode 1 (Pilot – “Merit Badge”) on USA
    » Sat Oct 06 4:00pm Episode 2 (”Tear Asunder”) on USA
    » Sun Oct 07 3:00pm Episode 1 (Pilot – “Merit Badge”) on Bravo

Categories Messages

2007/08/06

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  • Sharp-eyed D noticed that the previously unidentified gentleman photographed with Damian Lewis outside the Ivy restaurant in London on September 15, 2006 strongly resembles British spy novelist Charles Cumming! To end the speculation Damian’s associate Melissa kindly sent a note confirming the identity of the mystery man as “author Charlie Cumming”; she said that he and Damian have been friends since school days and even appeared in a school play together! 😀 Click here to learn more about this talented writer and his work.
  • Thanks to Sue from South Australia for this link to the TV.com web page for Life starring Damian Lewis; the site offers the interviews with Damian and co-star Sarah Shahi that were recently removed from the official NBC site. Click here and here for links posted by Ann showing that the title of episode 2 is Tear Asunder (October 3rd) and episode 3 is called Trickster (October 10th); the first episode is titled Merit Badge and will premiere in the US on September 26th.
  • New Stormbreaker release dates; according to IMDb the film was theatrically released in Argentina on August 2nd and will be released on DVD in Germany in October; the Japanese theatrical release will take place on October 13, 2007.
  • Now available online is Helen McCrory’s performance in Life After Scandal the Friday play on BBC Radio which can be heard online until next Friday.
  • Some members have started to receive online orders of the DVD for The Situation starring Damian Lewis which was recently released in North America.

Categories Messages

2007/07/15

  • More news about Life starring Damian Lewis!

    » NBC’s site for the program has been updated and confirms the broadcast premiere date as September 26th at 10 PM Eastern Time/9 PM Central Time.

    » NBC’s updated site offers videos, images, bios, info, downloads, surprises, and a forum community for the program (free registration required).

    » A message from Damian Lewis’s associate Melissa indicates that Damian will take part in a Life panel presentation with co-stars Sarah Shahi and Adam Arkin on Monday July 16, 2007 at 2 PM Pacific Time at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

    » New images from the NBC site have been added to the Warehouse gallery.

  • A second screening of Chromophobia was added to today’s events at the Cambridge Film Festival.
  • Keep voting for Damian Lewis as the Hello! Most Attractive Man of the Month!

Categories Messages

2007/07/08

  • Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Damian Lewis and family!

    Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis were married on July 4th (not July 7th as previously rumored in the press!) Damian will leave for Los Angeles tomorrow to work on his new NBC series Life and Helen will be joining him soon. Click here to read the message from Damian’s associate Melissa.

  • Thanks to Krista for posting this link for a new review of Life from Brian Ford Sullivan of The Futon Critic (spoiler warning!) Band of Brothers fans will be excited to learn that Michael Cudlitz (Sgt. Randleman) will have a guest appearance in the first episode!
  • This message was posted on IMDb by james-1455 (registration required). He had the opportunity to view an early, advance copy of The Baker, the new film written and directed by Gareth Lewis and starring Damian Lewis (and produced by Adrian Sturges and Damian Lewis.) Here’s an excerpt of his intriguing comments:

    “…So is it a good film? Yes. The film is unusual with more than a touch of the surreal about it…It also has one of the most innovative sex scenes that I’ve seen in a film in a long time…” 😀

  • Click here to check out the great view from the Director’s Chair!
  • According to information posted on the ManMade Films site; Gareth Lewis’s first short film, Tears of a Clown (1997) was short-listed for BAFTA consideration! This excellent and surprising film is available here for online viewing.
  • Information posted on the Vertigo Films site indicates that Rupert Wyatt’s film The Escapist starring Damian Lewis is targeted for release in early 2008!
  • Ginger power! 🙂

    This Telegraph article about sun protection and skin cancer prevention cites Damian Lewis as a “pale role model” who has proven that “pale can be interesting” (no kidding!) And this piece in the Observer discusses unreasonable prejudices against gingers and references Damian as a “redhead hero”!

  • According to IMDb, Stormbreaker featuring Damian Lewis will be released theatrically in Argentina on August 2nd and on DVD in Germany in October.
  • Remember to keep voting for Damian Lewis in the Hello! Most Attractive Man of the Month contest!