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Damian Lewis leaves Billion after five seasons.
Lewis played Bobby Axelrod, aka Ax, on the Showtime series, which aired its season five finale on Sunday night.
Showtime has also said season six will air on January 23 and released a trailer (watch it below). The news comes about a year to the day after the network announced the renewal of the sixth season.
“Thank you @SHO_Billions thank you @briankoppelman @DavidLevien”, Lewis wrote on Twitter early Monday morning. “A pleasure and a privilege to play Ax for 5 seasons with some of the smartest, funniest and most talented cast and crew I’ve worked with. I will miss the Billions family. Yes, some jobs are more than just a job…. Love.”
Paul Giamatti, Corey Stoll and Maggie Siff will return for season six, while Daniel Breaker (Girls5eva), who plays Scooter, the chief of staff of Michael Prince (Stoll), has been elevated to the rank of regular in the series.
The network said the coming season will see Ax gone and Michael Prince taking his place. Meanwhile, Chuck (Giamatti) must develop a new strategy that is finer and more sophisticated than before. All the players – Wags (David Costabile), Wendy (Siff), Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon), Sacker (Condola Rashad) and Senior (Jeffrey DeMunn) – must “sharpen their weapons and look for new alliances to survive.”
Stoll joined the series as a guest star in season five as a new threat to Ax. Showtime announced last year that it has become a regular in season six.
This is not the first Showtime series Lewis left while the show aired. He left the network Country in 2013 after three seasons.
Watch the season six trailer below.
October 4, 5:20 a.m. Updated to include Lewis’s social post.
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