Damian Lewis

• Damian will be reading the Book of the Week – Agent Zigzag – this week for BBC Radio 4. Each episode will be available online for seven days, click here to listen to it. We’ll try and have the episodes available for download later this week.
• Damian is mentioned in a Hollywood Reporter article about the need for strong male leads during tv’s pilot season.
• Click here for a brief article on Confessions Of A Diary Secretary (no mention of Damian). The article says the program will broadcast on Feb 7th but so far it’s not showing up on online schedules.
• Reviews: A short one of Keane and a blogger review of Chromophobia.
• 2 new affiliates: Hugh Laurie Fan and Sublime Michelle.

The Best of Masterpiece Theatre, which features brief interview clips with Damian Lewis, broadcast on a couple PBS affiliates today. Click here and here for comments about the program from Beth and gryffynchan. The program isn’t supposed to officially premiere till March 4th – so keep an eye on your local listings for broadcasts.

• The Baker will be screened by their distributor Bankside Films on February 9 and 14 at the Berlin International Film Festival as part of the European Film Market. The Situation, also being distributed by the same company, will screen there on the 13th. The Berlin fest schedule should be made available online in February. (Many thanks to Ann!)
• Someone was asking at DLYG about whether Brides is available in the US? Unfortunately, no – the DVD is only available outside the US and you’ll need a multi-region or region-free DVD player to play it. You’ll find more information about what’s available where and multi-region DVD players in the FAQ page located under Shop.

• Click here for more information on the Life pilot episode “Merit Badge”. (Scroll about half-way down.) It sounds like it may start shooting Feb. 12 in LA. Click here for a casting note.
• Click here for a review of The Situation from the New York Observer.
• Landmark Theatres has a preview page for The Situation which includes a short essay by Philip Haas from their current FLM issue.
• IMDb now lists Damian as Tony Blair on their Confessions of a Diary Secretary page.
• According to a message posted on the IMDb boards, The Baker will screen at the Berlin International Film Festival next month.
• Click here for the new Charities page if you’d like to review information on how to make a fan donation to Christian Aid. There’s a link to it on the sidebar.

• Happy Birthday to Mr. Gareth Lewis! Damian’s brother and business partner turned 34 today.
• The Australian World Movies Channel will begin broadcasting Keane starring Damian Lewis on February 13th. (Thanks to Jen for alerting us to this broadcast!)
• Brides will screen in Prague next week as part of the 14th European Film Festival (PDF file, page 30.) Click here for the Brides page. Members of the public can attend the screenings – Katerina has already ordered her tickets!
• The California Film Institute will host an advance screening of The Situation on February 18th in San Rafael, CA. Sean Penn will host the event that will include a Question and Answer session with director Philip Haas and Damian’s co-star Connie Nielsen.
• Connie Nielsen will make a guest appearance on the Tavis Smiley Show on January 30th to promote The Situation – check your local PBS schedule for the listing.
• The Australian region 4 Stormbreaker DVD has now been released.

• US members – keep checking your local PBS station’s schedule! The Best of Masterpiece Theatre featuring Damian Lewis will air on WBGH in Boston this Sunday January 28th (officially the program is scheduled to premiere on March 4th.)
• Spoilers! This Telegraph article about Confessions of a Diary Secretary says that the show (which features Damian Lewis as Tony Blair) will be televised on February 28th on the UK’s ITV1 channel.
• According to Shadow Distribution Connie Nielsen’s Monday, January 29th appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS is to promote The Situation co-starring Damian Lewis. Other promotions are scheduled so watch the television schedules, newspapers, and magazines for news!

• Do a good deed for Damian!
  In honor of Damian Lewis’s February 11th birthday fans are asked to perform an act of kindness in January or February (something special and extra) on his behalf. This can be a donation of time or money to a worthy cause or just being there to help someone in need – anything you’d like to do would be great.

  Damian is an ambassador for the (non-denominational) Christian Aid organization and a special opportunity has been created for anyone who would like to support this charity in his honor. Just make an online donation in any amount (US$, €, or GB£) and write “Damian Lewis fan club donation” on the first line of the billing address so that Christian Aid can send a card to Damian Lewis to inform him of the donations made by his supporters. Click on the links below for more information:
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• Update on The Situation:
  » Keep checking the film’s official site, per Shadow Distribution it will be continually updated as new playdates and theaters are confirmed.
  » The region 1 (North American) DVD will be released by New Video/Docurama but the release date is not yet available.
  
  » Plans for releasing The Situation outside the US are still unknown but Beyond International holds the international distribution rights.
  » Connie Nielsen, Damian’s co-star in the film, is scheduled to appear on the US CBS channel on January 29th as a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson – possibly to promote The Situation.
• Keane news!
  » This is London’s 4 star review of the recently released UK DVD says “…Damian Lewis is upsettingly superb as William Keane” and “…A hard watch – but worth it.”
  » Comments about the film posted by a viewer state “…Damian Lewis is superb as William Keane… The film is him and he is the film…”
  » If you’ve seen Keane please remember to vote for the film and share your comments on IMDb.
• The Academy Award (Oscar) nominations were announced today and Helen Mirren’s acclaimed film The Queen featuring Helen McCrory as Cherie Blair received 6 nominations: best film,
  actress in leading role, direction, original screenplay, original
  score, and costume design.

• Much Ado About Nothing starring Damian Lewis will air on YLE television in Finland on January 23rd:

  William S: Paljon melua tyhjästä
  (Much Ado About Nothing)
  YLE TV1 23.1.
  Entiset rakastavaiset kohtaavat jälleen tv-kanavan suosikkiohjelman
  juontajina. Kaikesta näkee, että heidän välillään yhä
  kipunoi, vaikka osapuolet panevat kampoihin kunnolla. Hyvää
  tarkoittavat kollegat puuttuvat asiaan ja onnistuvat siinä sivussa
  sotkemaan omat sydämenasiansa.
  O: Brian Percival. R: Sarah Parish, Damian Lewis, Billie Piper.
  TUOTANTO: BBC/HORSEBRIDGE PRODUCTIONS, ISO-BRITANNIA.

• Another fan group seems to be “voting down” Damian Lewis on the Mancrush site! (Okay, it’s silly but it cannot be tolerated for our guy to be ranked low on a list of great men – so please vote!) And remember to also vote for Major Winters whenever you vote for Damian!
• There was a problem with the Something Wrong About the Mouth download that was posted yesterday but it’s now been fixed. Sorry about that!

• Happy 89th Birthday to Major Winters!
  
  Click here to read about plans to honor Damian Lewis on his birthday this February 11th.
• Thanks to Kaz you can now download Something Wrong About the Mouth (the new BBC radio play starring Damian Lewis) in MP3 format.
• If you encountered difficulty viewing the new clips from The Situation in Quicktime format click here to download them in WMV format (also courtesy of Kaz!)
• A big welcome to our 5 great new affiliates!
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• Reminder, the Region 2 UK Keane DVD will be released on January 22nd as a two-disc set.
  

• Don’t you just love finding great new Damian Lewis photos and interviews?!!! ➡

  » This wonderful, newly discovered Factory Magazine interview and photoshoot is from Fall 2005 (PDF file). Click here to see images of Damian from the article at the Warehouse gallery. Click here for the highly entertaining text of the interview.
  
  

  » The website for Factory – The Film Industry Magazine also offers photos (here and here) of Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory at the magazine’s launch party at DeBeers on October 3, 2005. These images have been added to the launch party page at the Warehouse.

• Click here to listen to Something Wrong About The Mouth starring Damian Lewis, the wonderful new Saturday Play on BBC Radio 4.
• The Angelika Film Center has posted a Coming Soon page for the US release of The Situation starring Damian Lewis on February 2nd in New York City.

• Click here and here to view new screencaps of Damian Lewis from the trailer and clips for The Situation.
• Thanks to Amo and Ann for information about readings given by Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory last February 15th at the Old Vic Theatre –

  “…The actors were Helen McCrory, Damian Lewis, David Westhead, Sean Chapman, Claudie Blakely and Eugene O’Hare in Orson’s Shadow by Austin Pendleton – the first five of them playing, respectively, Vivien Leigh, Ken Tynan, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Joan
  Plowright. …”

• Elisabeth shared the news that Robinson Crusoe – featuring Damian Lewis in his first movie role – will air on Sunday, January 21st on één in Belgium at 2:05 PM. (Be sure to tune in on time because Pierce Brosnan kills Damian in a duel before the opening credits run!) 🙂
• Click here and here for information about the special screening of Keane as part of the Second Chance Cinema for the Princeton Adult School’s annual movie course. All screenings take place on Monday evenings at 7:30 PM at Kresge Auditorium starting February 5th through May 7th. (Depending on final course enrollment, a limited number of single admissions to individual screenings may be available at the door at showtimes, but seating cannot be guaranteed.)

• This review of Much Ado About Nothing from the Sydney Morning Herald says:

  “…Sarah Parish and Damian Lewis bring subtle flavours to every role, but here as perfectly drawn two-dimensional TV ‘personalities’ duped into falling for each other, they’ve thrown in the entire spice rack. They’re funny. They romp. Parish hisses for most of the performance. As Lewis sweats and chats to himself through sit-ups on an enormous blue Swiss ball…”

• In Chromophobia Marcus and Iona Aylesbury (Damian Lewis and Kristin Scott Thomas) live in a beautiful, very modern white, translucent house with their son Orlando; the house is called Skywood and is located in Denham, Buckinghamshire. The RIBA award-winning, contemporary glass house was designed by Graham Phillips and also appears in the Renault Clio “va-va-voom” commercial featuring Thierry Henry. Click on the links below for more information about Skywood.

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• A small update from Damian’s personal assistant Melissa: “Damian informs me that it’s still not
  certain (Boogie Woogie) will go ahead. In fact all the film projects are in limbo
  at the moment. I will let you know if anything happens.”
• IFILM has two new clips from The Situation that you can view here and here. Damian is briefly shown in both of them. Download the clips here from the Trailer Spotting L J or here from our Multimedia section.
• A few more site updates:

  » Two new project pages: Something Wrong about the Mouth and Agent Zigzag.

  » We’re slowly (very slowly) adding older articles to the Press Archive including a recent batch of Band of Brothers stuff. It’s still very much a work in progress! If you have any comments or suggestions, please drop us a note!