Category: Billions
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‘Billions’: Can Showtime’s Big Bet Be TV’s First Wall Street-Based Hit?, Variety, January 13, 2016
‘Billions’: Can Showtime’s Big Bet Be TV’s First Wall Street-Based Hit? By Cynthia Littleton, Variety, January 13, 2016 CREDIT: GUIDO VITTI FOR VARIETY The wolves of Wall Street have been an elusive target for television dramatists.Even the wave of antiheroes unleashed by Tony Soprano has yet to yield a show revolving around the megalomaniacs who rule the…
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It took ‘Billions’ to lure Damian Lewis back to TV, The Inquirer, January 13, 2016
It took ‘Billions’ to lure Damian Lewis back to TV by Ellen Gray, The Inquirer, January 13, 2016 In his new Showtime series, “Billions,” he plays a hedge-fund mogul whose choices move the markets, but Damian Lewis is a bit of a ditherer. So the decision to return to Showtime, where he’d won an Emmy for…
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The New Showtime Drama ‘Billions’ Shows Us Two Different Kinds of Power – Jan 13, 2016
The New Showtime Drama ‘Billions’ Shows Us Two Different Kinds of Power Paths to Power – Wall Street vs. The Justice System Business Insider – January 13, 2016 “Billions,” the new original drama from SHOWTIME®, stars Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as two opposing forces in the very different worlds of the Justice System and Wall Street.…
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Damian Lewis on “Billions†and the meaning of fame, Marketplace, January 12, 2016
Damian Lewis on “Billions” and the meaning of fame By Kai Ryssdal, NPR Marketplace, January 12, 2016 Damian Lewis plays hedge-fund investor Bobby Axelrod in Showtime’s new series “Billions.” - 2015 Showtime  Damian Lewis had no plans on doing another premium cable drama after his character Nicholas Brody was killed in season three of “Homeland.”
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Billions Behind the Scenes: Season 1 – Jan 9, 2016
Billions Behind the Scenes: The Insiders |Season 1
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Damian Walks the Red Carpet for Billions World Premiere – Jan 8, 2016
Damian Walks the Red Carpet for Billions World Premiere Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti walk the red carpet in New York for the world premiere of their upcoming Showtime series ‘Billions,’ where Lewis admitted knowing very little about what his character did for a living before he took on the role.
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‘Billions’ on Showtime Profits Off Our Fixation on Money – Jan 8, 2016
‘Billions’ on Showtime Profits Off Our Fixation on Money by David Zurawik - The Baltimore Sun – January 8, 2016 Great TV always scratches some deeper itch in the culture. And, in the last three decades at least, that itch has often been connected to money. “The Sopranos” explored the gangster soul of capitalism and the profound emptiness…