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Stolen has been nominated for a Radio Times/CDN Drama Award. According to the article:
The Radio Times/CDN Drama Award is for the drama programme that authentically portrays the diversity of contemporary British society in an effortless, natural and inclusive way. The strands of diversity to consider are: race/ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexuality, faith, regionality, and social class.
The Creative Diversity Network works for diversity across the broadcasting industry, both on- and off-screen. Its Awards seek to recognise and reward programmes that are reflective of contemporary Britain and embrace diversity, in all its forms.
Voting ends Wednesday, November 2nd. Click here at the Radio Times website to vote.
Reminder: There will be a free screening of Stolen, as part of the Unchosen Film Campaign 2011, on November 1st in London. Click here and here for more information.
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The BBC America website is “pitting 32 of Britain’s (and a couple of Ireland’s) most popular male TV and movie stars against each in a battle for supremacy.” Damian’s on Page 17 vs David Tennant – and is seriously trailing!? The vote should be much closer than that, lets give him a hand! 😀
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The Misanthrope ends its run on March 13th. Go see it while you still have the chance! Who knows Damian Lewis might go another 4 years before he does another play! :O
BBC Radio 7 is currently rebroadcasting the radio adaptation of Ben MacIntyre’s Agent Zigzag, read by Damian. Click on the Agent ZigZag project page for more info on the program. To listen to the show online click here. To download all 5 15-minute episodes, click here on our Audio page.
Vote for Damian as Sexiest Actor of the Year here at this french tv site. ➡ (Thanks to karima for the headsup!)
The first batch of Tubey Award “final nominees” has been posted and you can now vote for Life starring Damian Lewis in the “Most Painful Series Cancellation” category. Thanks to Ann for the link.
New “Tubey Award” polls are up at the Television Without Pity site with lots of chances to vote for Damian Lewis and Life! The relevant polls are:
Group 1-4 group:
» Best Drama: Life
» Best Single Episode – Drama: “Not for Nothing” (Life) or “One” (Life)
Group 9-12:
» Favorite Character: Charlie Crews (Life)
Group 17-20:
» Best “Hell Yeah!” Moment: Charlie Crews kills Roman with one punch to the throat
(Life)
Group 21-24:
» Neverending Subplot That Most Needs to Be Resolved: The conspiracy against
Charlie Crews (Life)
» Best Line of Dialogue: “I need a bigger gun.” – Charlie Crews (Life)
Thanks to Sandra and Ann for the link to vote for Damian Lewis and Life in Television Without Pity’s “Tubey Awards”. The relevant polls include:
Group 1-4:
» Best Sidekick: Ted Earley (Life) or Bobby Stark (Life)
» Best Villain: Roman (Life)
» Best Badass: Charlie Crews (Life)
Group 5-8:
» Best American Accent by a Non-American Actor: Damien Lewis (Life) (misspelled!)
Group 9-12:
» Best On-Screen Death Scene: Roman (Life)
» Best Season Finale: Life
Group 17-20:
» Most Painful Series Cancellation: Life
» Broadcast Network Show Most In Need of a Move to a Cable Network: Life
» Best Dream / Hallucination / Vision Sequence: Charlie is hallucinating that he’s back in the prison (Life)
Group 21-24:
» Most Welcome New Character: Jane Seever (Life)
» Best Smackdown (Non-reality Show): Charlie Crews vs. Roman (Life)
British actor James Purefoy, the star of NBC’s new series The Philantrhopist, told the New York Daily News about the advice he received from colleagues Damian Lewis and Kevin McKidd about working in Hollywood on a network television series:
I spoke to Damian and Kevin because they both worked with NBC. I said, “Tell me the truth, how do they treat you.” They told me it’s tough, the scheduling is punishing. You have to really fight for creativity because you’re actually spending most of your life learning lines…”
In the US June 30th is the last day to view The Escapist with Damian Lewis as a satellite/cable “Video On Demand” pay-per-view feature under “IFC In Theaters”.
Inspired By Music, the new book of celebrity photographs (including Damian Lewis) by Cambridge Jones, will be released on July 1, 2009 and Tower Books is offering the volume at the discounted price of $24.99 (US). Proceeds from sales of the book will benefit The Prince’s Trust charity. Thanks again to Ann for the link!
Helen McCrory’s new film The Special Relationship will start filming in London on July 20th under the direction of Richard Loncraine; click here for more information.
Alan Sepinwall of the New Jersey Star Ledger has published two more articles in his series on “revisiting Band of Brothers; click on the links below for “The Last Patrol” and “Why We Fight”. Thanks to Leah for the links.
Click above to view the trailer for Life episode 2.18 titled the “3 Women” which will broadcast in the US on Wednesday, March 18th on NBC.
Spoiler warning! Thanks to Kaz you can now download the recent, behind-the-scenes footage from the “3 Women” and the new interviews with Damian Lewis and Gabrielle Union from the Multimedia page.
Click here and here to view compilations of the clips that are now available on NBC.com.
Great job! Damian Lewis has beaten American Idol’s Simon Cowell in “Round One” of E! Online’s “Alpha Male Madness” tournament! ➡
Damian has now advanced to “Round Two” and he’s matched up against Thomas Gibson who plays Aaron Hotchner on Criminal Minds. Click here to vote for Damian Lewis. You can vote multiple times, just refresh your browser to vote again.
Click here to play Part 2 of the “Life’s Questions” game at NBC.com.
Click above to view IFC’s trailer for the April 3rd US release of The Escapist with Damian Lewis.
The Escapist is also scheduled for release in New Zealand on May 28th.
According to IMDbThe Escapist will be released on region 2 DVD in Finland on March 18th and in Sweden on March 25th; the film is currently available on region 2 DVD in the UK.
Don’t miss Life episode 2.17 titled “Shelf Life” airing in the US this Wednesday, March 11 on NBC at 9pm (ET)!
Spoilers! NBC has released the storyline for episode 2.20 “Initiative 38” airing in the US on NBC on April 1st:
A STATE POLITICIAN SEEKING TO BAN HANDGUNS IS SHOT TO DEATH?Crews (Damian Lewis) and Seever (Gabrielle Union) investigate the death of a California State Representative who is shot and killed in her home. The detectives discover the representative was the force behind a political initiative that would put a comprehensive ban on handguns and cost a gun manufacturing company millions in profit. Crews and Seever work to prove that the representative?s political ambitions may have gotten her killed. Meanwhile, Crews questions what Reese might be doing with the FBI. Adam Arkin, Donal Logue and Brent Sexton also star.
sweet-revenge00 has unveiled her Band of Brotherspicspam (and commentary) for episode 5 “Crossroads”. Of course, this is the fantastic episode that focused on Winters and where Damian was stupendously awesome and gorgeous.
E! Online is holding a “Alpha Male Madness tournament” where tv’s male leads are matched up against one another. Charlie Crews/Damian is pitted against Simon Cowell of American Idol (Gross, what do people see in that guy?). Go here and vote for our boy! The first round ends on Friday. (Thanks to Ann for the headsup!)