(CNN)Showtime has teased the instrumentality of its high-stakes play "Billions" aft a large quality bowed out.
Emmy award-winning histrion Damian Lewis ended his five-season tally successful the play finale "No Direction Home" connected Sunday night, with his character, hedge money wizard Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, leaving New York for bully to flight his ineligible woes.
On the heels of the finale occurrence airing, Showtime announced that the show's sixth play volition premiere connected Sunday, January 23.
Lewis, 50, had played billionaire financier Axelrod connected the Showtime bid since its inception successful 2016.
"What an unthinkable joyousness to walk 5 years moving truthful intimately with the large @lewis_damian!" showrunner Brian Koppelman said connected Twitter. "(Co-creator) @DavidLevien and I are beyond grateful to you, Damian, for the work, of course, and the fellowship, and for each you sacrificed to travel bash this with us."
In April this twelvemonth Lewis experienced a idiosyncratic calamity erstwhile his wife, British histrion Helen McCrory, died of cancer.
"There's an accidental possibly for maine to return," Lewis told the New York Times connected Sunday. "But for now, broadly speaking, Axe has been vanquished."
The 90-second trailer showed that portion the bid volition instrumentality a antithetic absorption pursuing Lewis' exit, determination volition proceed to beryllium shifts successful alliances and plentifulness of unscrupulous behavior.
Billionaire Mike Prince, played by Corey Stoll, is acceptable to instrumentality the pb successful play 6, alongside Daniel Breaker's scheming character, Scooter, aft being introduced successful play 5 arsenic a fierce rival to Axe.
The sneak peek confirms that portion Prince is present ample and successful charge, helium is not escaped from the ineligible scope of New York Attorney General Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti).
Rhoades tells his begetter successful the opening of the trailer: "This is the archetypal conflict successful the caller warfare I'm waging against the criminally rich."
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