Ryan Phillippe is set to grace the small screen next year on DirecTV.
The 37-year-old actor will join Season 5 of legal drama
Damages, which previously aired on FX and stars
Glenn Glose as attorney Patty Hewes.
Ryan will play Channing McClaren, the iconoclastic founder of a website devoted to corporate and government transparency. (Think WikiLeaks.) He is the lynchpin in the case that will pit Hewes (Glenn) and Ellen Parsons (
Rose Byrne) ...