A Complete Guide to All the 'Billions' Spinoffs
It’s been confirmed that the seventh season of the Showtime financial drama Billions, which premiered in August 2023, will be the show’s last. But for fans, that sad news was tempered by the announcement that Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien are working on not just one, or two, but four spinoffs. Pleasingly, two of those will be titled Millions and Trillions, while the other two will be Billions offshoots set in different cities.
The original, which is the longest-running scripted original series at Showtime, takes place in New York, and centers on charismatic and ruthless hedge fund manager Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Damian Lewis), whose business dealings are under investigation by U.S. District Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti). Plot details for the potential spinoffs are still mostly unannounced, so it’s not clear yet whether any cast members from the original show will be crossing over into the expanded Billions universe. Here’s everything we know so far about the planned spinoffs.
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What Billions spinoffs are in the works?
Billions: Miami
This is being billed as the first of the four spinoffs. Per Deadline, the show will take place within the private aviation industry, where “the clientele believe the rules of society, government and gravity don’t apply to them.” Set in Miami, the series will explore “the wealth, nightlife, contraband and the cryptocurrency that pulses through that city,” with crypto culture apparently taking a front seat.
“We remain fascinated by people whose ambition is boundless and who think the laws of civilization and nature don’t apply to them,” Koppelman and Levien said in a press statement. “Miami is a vital and vibrant place the super-rich have begun taking over. We’re excited to show everyone what’s really going on down there.”
Billions: London
Koppelman and Levien are also overseeing the development of a London-based version of Billions. Not many details on this one yet, beyond the fact that it will pull back the curtain on the world of UK finance much as the original did for Wall Street.
Millions
As the title suggests, the characters in this spinoff will be just plain old rich rather than uber-rich, and they’re up-and-comers rather than established power players. According to Deadline, Millions will follow a group of diverse, thirtysomething, financial mogul wannabes doing whatever it takes to make it in Manhattan.
Trillions
This drama is billed as having a “soapier” tone than other shows in the Billions universe, and will chronicle fictional stories of the wealthiest people in the world—“titans of industry living all over the country but coming into contact and conflict with one another”.
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Will Damian Lewis be in the Billions spinoffs?
No word yet on whether any OG cast members, including Lewis, will appear in the spinoffs.
Will Paul Giamatti be in the Billions spinoffs?
Details about the spinoffs, including whether any actors from the original series will appear, are scarce. Fans will have to wait to find out whether Giamatti will reprise his role.
When will the Billions spinoffs be released?
No premiere dates have been announced for any of the spinoff shows just yet. As of February 2023, Koppelman and Levien were reportedly some way into the writing process on Billions: Miami, but it’s not clear how many episodes they’d completed by the time the WGA strike began in May. In any case, between the writers’ and actors’ strikes, production is likely a long way off on all four of these shows.
But Season 7 of Billions is airing now on Showtime, and will wrap up with the series finale on Oct. 29, 2023.
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