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SPOILER ALERT! Do not read this unless you have watched the series finale of Billions on Showtime. It’s the end of the road for Bobby Axelrod and his team: the drama created by Brian Koppelman and David Levien ended its seven-season run Oct. 27 with a tidy finale that keeps Axe (Damian Lewis) in the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America hasn't said anything publicly about the savage attack on Israel by terrorists on October 7, and a number of irate showrunners and others will be discussing that silence Friday. Almost a week after dozens of high-profile WGA members put out an open letter reprima…

"You make billions/pay us some!" striking Writers Guild of America members chanted on the street of New York today near where filming was going on for Showtime's Billions. For the second day in a row, scribes showed up at a Big Apple work site for the Wall Street drama. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: On the third day of its first strike in 15 years, the Writers Guild of America closed down Wall Street drama Billions for several hours Thursday. Related Stories Breaking News …

Refresh for updates… Friends, colleagues and fans have been quick to react to the news of beloved comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried's death today at 67. “RIP Gilbert. Opening for Gilbert Gottfried at Carolines and Princeton Catch was one of the great thrills of my early stand up life,” wrote Jon Stewart. “He could…

Showtime’s anthology series Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber is set to debut on Feb. 27, 2022, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The first season, based on Mike Isaac's bestselling book of the same name, tells the story of the ride-sharing company that stands out as both a marvel and a cautionary tale, featuring internal and…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of the Billions Season 5 finale that debuted on streaming early this morning and on Showtime tonight Damian Lewis has exited Showtime’s Billions. With his very rich Bobby Axelrod on the run in Switzerland from the legal claws of Paul Giamatti’s Empire State Attorney General…

Showtime is taking on the story of Uber, putting in development an untitled limited series based on Mike Isaac’s bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber, from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The book, published by W.W. & Company, Inc. on September 3, chronicles the founding of Uber…

It is exactly the kind of result that Billions‘ Bobby Axelrod would like but not really appreciate. A federal judge has granted Showtime's motion to toss out a copyright infringement case from well-known performance coach Denise Shull against series creators Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin, the…

There are a lot of real life inferences and innuendos in Billions, but Showtime's high stakes and high finance drama might have finally strayed too close to reality – at least according to a defamation lawsuit launched by New York's Cayuga Nation and tribal leader Clint Halftown. Claiming to be tainted with depictions…

Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien are expanding their relationship with Showtime, signing an overall deal with the network behind the hit drama series. Under the pact, the duo, who co-created Billions alongside Andrew Ross Sorkin, will continue to serve as showrunners of the series which was…

New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, one of the 46 Attorneys that were appointed during the Obama administration, revealed that he was fired after he refused to step down from his post at the request of Donald Trump's team. Bharara had previously made it clear that he would not be resigning, but was then told by…