Category: Print Media
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PBS Masterpiece Hopeful To Be Involved with BBC’s Wolf Hall – Jan 9, 2021
PBS Wants Damian Back for Wolf Hall by Peter White | Deadline | January 8, 2021 PBS’ Masterpiece, which has been home to classic British dramas including Downton Abbey, Upstairs, Downstairs, Prime Suspect and the original House of Cards, turns 50 on January 10. Susanne Simpson, an exec producer on series including Downton Abbey, took…
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Show Me the Money – Jan 9, 2021
TV Series Industry Cashes In On Finance Drama Boom by Michael Idato | The Sydney Morning Herald | January 9, 2021 In an economic era increasingly defined by tax avoidance, inequality and constant disruption, it seems unlikely that financial web-spinners in expensive suits would become the poster children of TV’s most popular dramas. And yet…
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Masterpiece (PBS/BBC) Favorites of a More Recent Vintage – Jan 8, 2021
Two for Damian: Wolf Hall and The Forsyte Saga by Matthew Gilbert | Boston Globe | January 7, 2021 Here are some of my favorite Masterpiece shows, in no particular order. I have restricted the list to those that have aired in the past 25 years, which is why you won’t see the well-known classics,…
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The 10 Best TV Needle Drops of 2020 – Dec 29, 2020
2020 Best TV Songs/Soundtrack Moments by Sean T. Collins | Vulture | December 29, 2020 “Vision†is right there in the name of the damn thing, but as a medium, television is as much dependent on sound as it is on sight. This year, from comedies to dramas, from terrestrial networks to streaming services, a…
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Best Male Television Performances of 2020 – Dec 23, 2020
Top 10 Performers in the Realm of Television by Ganesh Raheja | Republic World | December 22, 2020 The year 2020 also bore witness to some exemplary pieces of character work in the realm of mainstream television as well. Hugh Grant in The Undoing gave a spine-chilling performance as the human embodiment of a menacing…
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Frank Grillo Shares What it Was Like to Work with Damian Lewis on Billions – July 24, 2020
Pizza and Paintings by Charles Thorp | InsideHook | July 24, 2020 Frank Grillo recently joined InsideHook readers for an intimate live conversation hosted by contributor Charles Thorp. The hard-working actor went in-depth on his experience joining the cast of the Showtime hit Billions as artist Nico Tanner, his work in Marvel’s Avengers franchise as…
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Industry Mag Staten Island Cover Story – July 19, 2020
Accents and How He Handled Overnight Fame by Joel Keller | Industry Mag Staten Island | July 19, 2020 He may be an officer of the British Empire, but the London native is best known for playing Americans, including Bobby Axelrod in Billions. Damian Lewis has been playing American characters on and off (mostly on)…
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Billions Season 5 Episode 7 Mid-Season Finale Recap: Forbes – June 14, 2020
An Act of War by Dana Feldman | Forbes | June 14, 2020 All is not fair in love and war. This is made very clear in the midseason finale of Billions. Of note, tonight’s episode “The Limitless Sh*t†was directed by the one and only David Costabile, better known as Wags. Axe (Damian Lewis)…