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Ahead of Billions‘ Season 4 finale, Showtime has ordered a fifth season of the hit drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. The renewal comes amid strong viewership numbers for Billions, which is currently averaging 4.2 million viewers per week across platforms. "Billions' addictive examination of wealth…

One of the films on my Top 10 Movies of 2018 list was Private Life, so naturally I was thrilled to be able to moderate that movie’s panel during the Netflix portion of Deadline’s first-ever The Contenders New York event, held last month in the Big Apple. In front of a packed audience of invited AMPAS and key guild…

In Private Life, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti portray a middle-aged couple struggling with infertility. The film paints a funny but unflinching portrait of the efforts to have a child, from painful IVF injections, to anxious adoption interviews, to the humbling search for an egg donor. Throughout the journey, they…

The torturous path of fertility treatments and the journey for many couples trying to have a baby would not seem on the surface to be subject matter for a laugh-filled comedy. But writer-director Tamara Jenkins has done just that with Private Life,  a smart, touching, witty, heartbreaking and fully real movie that was…

The closest thing that is also on AMC to the August 6 debuting Lodge 49 is some of the peripheral tones of Better Call Saul and, for the home of The Walking Dead, that's a welcomed shift, as I say in my video review above. With Thomas Pynchon ambitions of sorts, the Wyatt Russell, Sonya Cassidy and Brent Jennings led…

The creative team behind AMC’s Lodge 49, in a wide-ranging TCA panel suiting the peregrinations of the series, touched on Thomas Pynchon, the “dread” of Sundays in Southern California and how the show is a “palate cleanser” during the peak-TV era. Following Sean “Dud” Dudley, an ex-surfer in Long Beach played by Wyatt…

Showtime has ordered a fourth season of its hit drama series Billions, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. In addition, the series, which currently airs Sundays at 10 PM, will move to 9 PM ET/PT starting next Sunday, May 6 to anchor the night and serve as the lead-in for the season two premiere of I'm Dying Up Her…

Billions co-creators and EPs Brian Koppelman and David Levien, along with stars Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, and Asia Kate Dillon, were on hand the TCA winter press tour and offered some details on 3rd season. The upcoming run, which will premiere March 25, finds Bobby Axelrod (Lewis)…

In business, nothing says “I love you” like cold hard cash and in television, nothing tastes richer than rising ratings – and the Season 2 finale of Billions had both and a jail cell full of revenge thrown in. As Paul Giamatti's ambitious U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes bets it all on finally taking down Damian Lewis'…

No word if Metallica is returning to Billions, but less than a month after the second season of the high-stakes drama debuted to large numbers, Showtime said today the series is coming back for a Season 3 for an expected early 2018 debut. “Billions continues to be a show on the rise, growing not only in audience, but…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Giamatti and Jeff Daniels are joining Paul Rudd and Guy Pearce in Catcher Was A Spy, the Ben Lewin-directed and Robert Rodat-scripted drama that begins filming Monday in Prague, with shooting also in Boston. The film is fully financed and produced by PalmStar Media with PalmStar’s financial partner…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Giamatti is set to join Kathryn Hahn in Netflix’s Private Life, Tamara Jenkins’ feature drama about fertility and the pursuit of happiness. Private Life is about an author (Hahn) who is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting the relationship between she and her husband on…