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New drama 'Billions' comes to Showtime

Damian Lewis has been cited as the preferred candidate to be the seventh James Bond for the big screen

Money talks in the latest series picked up by pay cable network Showtime, starring Damian Lewis.

With the New York world of high finance as the backdrop, "Billions" is written by screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien of "Ocean's Thirteen," according to Deadline.

Filming is to start later this year and the series will be out starting in 2016.