'Billions' 2016: Premiere Date Set; New Series Pilot Episode Released

Showtime has a new Wall Street Drama, "Billions".

As to what this is all about, reporters decided to let the show do the talking towards their audience. It was reported that once you begin to watch it, you'll soon be fully invested about what happens next.

The entire series has been shown since Jan. 1 on Yahoo TV two weeks before the major premier on their home network and it already keeps the audience glued to the series.

Billions is 6 episode said to be known as the show's most complicated and interesting in length and it stars, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Maggie Stiff. Stiff is reported to be the most interesting character in the show. The plotline for Billions is about two Wall Street titans who are head to head with each other. One who is a popular hedge fund guy named Alex Bobby (Damian Lewis) who is envied by his fellow trading masters. The other guy was mbitious federal attorney, Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) who is targeting Alex, as the next guy he will be prosecuting.

The screen writers for "Billions" are Brian Koppelman and David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin. It is fantastic to note that Sorkin is a financial world journalist. With two acting heavyweights in the show, the creators are all looking forward to an Emmy this year. Levien says that he could feel that Giamatti and Lewis are having so much fun acting on the set together going at each other like that.

There are already reviews found online, and it seems pretty interesting to note that a world like Wall Street has all the dramas of the people who are around and actually do this kind of business. The fight is between justice and profit and, interesting relationship plots in between.

"Billions" will be premiering on Jan. 17, 2016 at 10 pm.

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