Fortunes of war

Damian Lewis faces a new super-rich rival as Billions returns

- CAREN CLARK, RICHARD MCCLURE

NEW DRAMA

Billions Wednesday, Sky Atlantic HD, 9 pm & 10.10 pm

Welcome back to the cut-throat world of New York finance and politics as Billions returns for a fifth season starring Damian Lewis as wealthy hedge-fund manager Bobby ‘Axe’ Axelrod and Paul Giamatti as his ruthless rival, federal attorney Chuck Rhoades.

The last season saw the men call a truce, but now the old enemies are facing off again when Chuck targets a cryptocurrency mine that Axe has a stake in.