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The Best British Spy Shows to Stream Right Now

A Spy Among Friends

by Staff | Vulture | December 6, 2023

The small-screen British spy genre is packed with some of the most tonally diverse marvels under the sun — pick one show, and you’ll bear witness to a beautiful assassin stabbing a man to death with a needle. Pick another, and a guy is giggling his way through the silliest MI-5 training imaginable. Whatever your taste, there are spy gadgets, thrilling chases, secret identities, and twisty betrayals throughout this list of good ol’ fashioned espionage shows for your (incognito) browsing pleasure.

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Best TV Shows of 2023: Giving the Small Screen a Tweak

A Spy Among Friends

by John Anderson | The Wall Street Journal | December 5, 2023

It wasn’t a regular year, this 2023. Writers were on strike; actors were on strike. “Succession” lurched into the grave. Martha the Medicare Lady was making people crazier than they already were. And you know what? Shingles doesn’t care.

That said, I had assumed that this retrospective examination and contemplation of TV in the year ’23 was destined to be about the new. The novel. The innovative. Which is counterintuitive, to be sure: Television is a medium—or an industry, or whatever it is—that seems passionately dedicated to the idea that viewers don’t want to feel too passionately about anything, or have their equilibrium disturbed or their worldview assaulted. Hence the flourishing business of game shows, “unscripted” celebrity-reality series and nonfiction programming about serial murderers, which are always comforting to those of us not being murdered.

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Best TV Shows of 2023: A Spy Among Friends

Nail-Biting Espionage

by Mike Hale | New York Times | November 29, 2023

TV in 2023 was like synchronized swimming. Below the surface, there was roiling and churn. The writers’ and actors’ strikes wiped out much of the production year. The hangover from the corporate binge on streaming platforms led to cancellations and cutbacks. A number of hall-of-fame series left the air, with no clear plan of, as it were, succession.

But above the waterline, the dance went on. As usual, it was challenging to whittle down my year-end list to 10. (So I picked 11.) As usual, I am listing it in alphabetical, not ranked order. As usual, I made it a rule not to repeat shows from the previous year, and as usual, I broke that rule. (I couldn’t not include “Reservation Dogs.”)

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A Spy Among Friends Wins Radio Times Screen Test Award

Best Box Set

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | November 7, 2023

The Radio Times Screen Test Awards 2023 voting results are in and A Spy Among Friends won Best Box Set on Tuesday, November 7, 2023! The public was able to vote for shows in seven key categories that made them feel good and improved their wellbeing over the past year.

Congrats to all the cast and crew. We are proud of the mini-series and its accolades.

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A Spy Among Friends Available on Amazon Prime

Stream This Spy Thriller

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | September 28, 2023

A Spy Among Friends is available to stream on Amazon Prime and the first episode is free! Remaining episodes require adding a free trial of MGM+ to your Amazon Prime account, however, you can cancel MGM+ add-on at any time to avoid further fees. The television mini-series first aired on the new streaming platform ITVX in the UK back in December 2022, followed by Amazon Prime Video in Canada since February 2023 and more recently on MGM+ in the US from March 2023.

Based on Ben Macintyre’s book by the same name, Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) is working for Britain’s SIS as an intelligence officer and is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague, Kim Philby (Guy Pearce), has been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB since 1932. Elliot interviews him in Beirut, and then Philby defects to the Soviet Union. The series was nominated in the best mini-series category at the British Academy Television Awards, announced in March 2023.

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Damian Lewis, Anna Wintour and James Corden Take Stroll Around Covent Garden

Traipsing Trio

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | September 13, 2023

Damian, Anna Wintour and James Corden – all part of the Vogue World London Show – were spotted talking a stroll around London near Covent Garden Wednesday evening, September 13, 2023. The Trio were engaged in light conversation as security led them through the area. Back in May, 2022 Damian hosted a memorial service at St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden (aka The Actors’ Church) to celebrate Helen McCrory’s life.

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Mission Creep: Official Album Charting

UK’s Official Charts Ranking

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 19, 2023

Damian’s debut album Mission Creep , which was released on June 16, 2023, has reached several key milestones in the official charts, UK! Congrats to Damian and his band on this monumental achievement!

Official Albums Sales Chart

The UK’s Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on sales of CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads.

Top 40
Peak Position 38 (week of June 22 – June 28, 2023)

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Damian Lewis Performed Music Gig at Union Chapel

Islington Conquered

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 11, 2023

Just after the release of his debut album Mission Creep on June 16, 2023 and on the heels of playing Black Deer Festival and Rough Trade East, Damian returned to the stage with his fantastic band for a show at Union Chapel in London on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, with opening gig and supporting act from the brilliant Christy O’Donnell. The 14-song set included Down on the Bowery, Zaragoza, Hole in My Roof, Soho Tango, Harvest Moon, Never Judge a Man by His Umbrella, Werewolves of London, Wanna Grow Old in Paris, new song Fate, Makin’ Plans, Why, She Comes, with encore performances of After Midnight and his new song She Makin’ Me Change.

Before beginning his new song She Makin’ Me Change, he said, “Manon and Gully, if you’re out there, I love you.” Others in the audience were his siblings Gareth, William and Amanda, as well as Sharmila Collins of Cure EB, Debbi Clark of Sir HvH Arts, members from the Fan Fun with Damian Lewis team and Damian’s former drama school teacher Kenneth Rea, whom Damian wrote the foreword to his book The Outstanding Actor. Family and friends gathered for an afterparty at Islington’s late night music pub, The Grace. View more images and videos from the event in our Gallery.

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Damian Lewis’s Favourite Musical London Hotspots

Victorian Loos and Celtic Singalongs: The Music Scene That Made Damian Lewis

by Jess Phillips | TimeOut Newsletter | July 10, 2023

Before becoming one of Hollywood’s go-to tough guys in shows like Band of Brothers and Homeland, Damian Lewis was a busker, snaking his way into Leicester Square and Green Park tube stations and dragging his guitar across Europe on the back of his motorbike. During lockdown he rediscovered his love of music and has since performed at Wilderness Festival, Black Deer Fest and Cheltenham Jazz Festival, releasing his rock n’ roll and jazz-inspired debut album, Mission Creep, last month. From converted toilets to Celtic singalongs, he talks us through the London music scene that shaped him.

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Damian Lewis Sings National Anthem at the British Grand Prix

A Jazzed Up Rendition

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 9, 2023

Damian opened the proceedings at the grid ceremony of the Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix on race day, Sunday, July 9, 2023. From the starting line he performed the British National Anthem “God Save the King” with a jazz twist and a saxophonist. The day before, Saturday, July 08, 2023, Damian rocked the Paddock by performing songs from his debut album Mission Creep after the qualifying event at Silverstone Circuit in Northampton, England,

View more images from race day/national anthem (DAY 2) in our Gallery here.
View more images from paddock performance/qualifying event (DAY 1) in our Gallery here.

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Damian Lewis Rocks the Paddock at the British Grand Prix and Catches Up With Brad Pitt

Once Upon a Time…

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | July 8, 2023

Damian rocked the Paddock by performing songs from his debut album Mission Creep after the qualifying event on Saturday, July 08, 2023 at Silverstone Circuit in Northampton, England, but not before running into his former Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood co-star Brad Pitt! The two can be seen here all smiles as they shake hands and catch up. Media outlets report Brad is filming scenes for an upcoming movie about Formula One racing. And we know why Damian is there!

Damian also attended the rooftop party of Hilton’s Garden Inn Silverstone grand opening on Saturday, bumping into Paris Hilton and Lando Norris. Tune in tomorrow because Damian will perform the national anthem as he opens proceedings at the grid ceremony of the Formula 1 Aramco British Grand Prix on race day, Sunday, July 9, 2023, scheduled from 2:45-2:48 pm BST. View more images from today’s event in our Gallery here.

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Award-Winning Actor Turned Rock Star Damian Lewis Reveals His Backstage Demands

“A Small Towel, Some Water and a Bottle of Tequila”

by Simon Gage | Metro SixtySeconds | July 7, 2023

You’ll know Damian Lewis, 52, from award-winning roles in shows like Homeland, Band Of Brothers and Billions, but you won’t know him in his new incarnation as a singer/songwriter about to do shows with his own band. When his wife, actress Helen McCrory, died he turned to music and came up with a bluesy, rocky, self-penned album called Mission Creep and – with the support of his children – he’s getting it out there.

Were people surprised when they heard you were releasing an album?
Er, yes…is the short answer. My close friends and people I’ve grown up with know that I play the guitar and sing.

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