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    Television

    Aug 06, 2023 4 minutes

    SUNDAY AUGUST 13

    BILLIONS

    Money, money, money

    New York corporate-legal melodrama started off with a hiss and a roar six seasons ago but judging by the numbers in later years it’s overstayed its welcome. One of its leads, Damian Lewis, left at the end of season five though he is apparently returning for half of what is the seventh and final instalment. It wasn’t quite Brian Cox, who played Logan Roy for four seasons of that show, said the earlier big-business saga was “past its sell-by date” and that wouldn’t be allowed to happen with his show. exploration of power, money, greed and occasionally bondage and discipline heads

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