LONDON (AP) - Want to know what's going on behind doors in
Washington?

People are watching the Showtime TV series "Homeland" - and
star Damian Lewis says it's all Barack Obama's fault.

Lewis says after the political thriller got the U.S. president's
eye, the rest of the White House wanted to see it too.

Lewis tells The Associated Press "not only has Obama been
watching it but his aides have been calling up going, 'we need to
see it.' So he's been getting entire state departments, top of the
U.S. government, asking to see it."

Lewis plays a Marine who has been missing in Iraq for eight
years - but is he a war hero or a terrorist?

The British actor has been promoting the drama in his own
homeland before it begins Feb. 19 on the U.K.'s Channel 4.