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Gallery update, new vid, ‘The Baker’ screening

  • Gallery update: Click here at the gallery for a couple pictures of Damian Lewis leaving the Comedy Theatre on Thursday, February 4th.

  • New download: Click here on our Events page to download a video interview with Damian at the South Bank Awards Show. Many thanks to Kaz! ➡

  • The Baker will screen in Old Saybrook, CT on Friday, February 12th as part of Connecticut Film Festival activities. Click here for ticket information. Click here for more info on the festival.


  • BBC Radio 4 will rebroadcast The Saturday Play thriller The Small Back Room at 2:30pm on Saturday. Click here on the Audio page to download it in mp3. More info on the project page here.

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  • The Baker starring Damian Lewis and directed by Gareth Lewis received the “Best Comedy Award” at the recent Naples International Film Festival in Florida.

  • Thanks to Linda for the news that Flemish television channel VT4 is re-broadcasting season 1 of Life starring Damian Lewis in Belgium on Wednesday nights at 21:35.

  • Helen McCrory attended the EA British Academy Children’s Awards on November 29th. Cards autographed by Helen will be included in the Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince Update set that will be released on December 23, 2009.

  • Damian Lewis is a Patron of Scene and Heard a charitable “mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals, providing each child … with quality one-on-one adult attention and an experience of personal success through the process of writing and performing plays.”

    Click here to listen to “Beauty and Death” written by 11-year old Promi Chowdhury and performed by Damian and Nina Wadia in 2006. You can also download the recording in MP3 format thanks to Kaz.

  • Your Highness with Damian Lewis will be theatrically released in the US on October 1, 2010 and in the Netherlands on October 28, 2010.

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  • The Misanthrope official site has updated their homepage with a new ad. You can download the picture here at the gallery.

  • Number 10 update! The first episode of the Afternoon Play Number 10 is set to broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday, November 13 from 2:15-3:00pm. Damian Lewis will play the “1st gay Tory Prime Minister” and is taking over the role in the upcoming 3rd series from Sir Anthony Sher who played the Labour Prime Minister in the previous 2 series.

    Click here for the site’s Number 10 project page.

    Each episode can be heard live on the BBC site and should be available for listening on BBC iPlayer till the next episode broadcasts. We’ll try and have the episodes available for download here. To download previous radio performances by Damian, click here on the Audio page.

  • Wow,how did I forget to upload pics of Damian and Helen at The Old Vic’s 24 Hour Plays after-party this past Sunday? (FAIL!) Click here at the gallery for the 2 pics I’m sure most of you have seen. Helen McCrory performed in the 24 Hour Plays event earlier that evening. Click here to read about the event and here for video. Damian and Helen aren’t in the video, but it’s interesting to see all the actors who are!

  • UK TV Schedule Update:

    • » The Escapist is will broadcast on Film4 again this month:

      Tuesday, November 17th at 9pm
      Monday, November 23rd at 9pm

    • » Series 1 of The Forsyte Sagais currently broadcasting on ITV3 on Sundays at 6:15pm.

    • » Season 1 of Life is currently showing on ITV3 after midnight.

  • Reminder: The Baker will screen in Naples, Florida at the Silverspot Cinema on November 6th and 8th! Click here at the The Naples International Film Festival site for more information.

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  • Damian Lewis on Broadway?! The latest from Baz Bamigboye’s Mail Online column:

    Nicholas Le Provost, Kelly Price and Chuk Iwuji, who will join Damian Lewis, Keira Knightley, Tara Fitzgerald and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp’s modern-day version of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

    Rehearsals begin in London on Monday, …

    Theatre owners and producers from New York have already been on to the London producers, asking to transfer the production – with Keira and Damian – to New York.

    I do know that, for now, the only thing on Keira’s mind is to start rehearsals and get it right in London first. If she did decide to go to New York, then it would be as part of an ensemble.

    In any case, it’s rather more up to Damian whether it goes or not, as he’s the lead. Keira has told friends she’s very much a company player.

    Previews for The Misanthrope open December 7th. Tickets can be booked through the official site. Interested in getting together with other fans? Click here at the Yahoo! Group for more information.


  • The Baker updates:
    • » Reminder: The Baker is still playing in Portland, Oregon at Living Room Theaters and will continue for almost another week through November 4th! Click here for dates and times.

    • » The Baker will screen at The Naples International Film Festival in Naples, Florida early next month. The film will screen at the Silverspot Cinema on November 6th (5 and 8 pm) and on November 8th (4:15 pm). Click here at the NIFF site for more information.

    • » The film will also screen at the Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburg, PA later in the month on November 15th and 16th.

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  • From Baz Bamigboy’s Mail Online column:

    Damian Lewis as Alceste – Moliere’s Misanthrope – looks on disdainfully as two photographs illustrate what he regards as the shallowness of society. …

    ‘This Misanthrope is angered by everything he sees around him and yet, at the same time, you might say he’s one of the great romantics in literature,’ Damian told me.

    Yet Alceste has fallen in love with Jennifer, the megastar played by Keira, and she’s unable to provide the truthfulness he seeks.

    Damian added: ‘Alceste is really his own worst enemy because he’s so unutterably rude when showing his dissatisfaction with the people around him.’

    Books tickets now at The Misanthrope‘s official site!

  • Reminder: The Baker opens in Portland, Oregon at Living Room Theaters on Friday. Click here for more info.

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  • Damian Lewis is quoted in Metro.co.uk discussing Keira Knightly, his co-star in The Misanthrope:

    Damian Lewis is positive that Keira Knightley will do a terrific job when she makes her debut on the West End stage. The Band Of Brothers star will be appearing alongside the British actress in the West End production of Moliere’s comedy The Misanthrope, which opens in December. “She’s got quite a successful acting dad and playwright mum, so she can handle herself – Keira is fabulous, she’s an absolute sweetheart – she’s looking forward to it as well so we’re going to have fun,” he said.

    He added: “I’m very excited about doing The Misanthrope – massively. We did the photo call for it the other day, and it made it very real, very exciting.” And Damian joked that he wouldn’t mind the paparazzi attention. “If I can get in and out the stage door every night without fighting, I’d feel hurt – I’d be insulted,” he quipped. The Misanthrope will be at the Comedy Theatre from December 17.