'Homeland' star to dine at the White House

President Barack Obama will dine with the star of one of his favorite TV shows this week.

Damian Lewis, who plays an American war hero suspected of terrorism on "Homeland,” will attend an official dinner honoring U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday.

"He's invited me to the White House for dinner!" the British actor giddily told BBC host Graham Norton in an interview that aired Saturday. On why he made the guest list, Lewis said that Obama "just loves this show so much."

"There will just be a thousand of his closest friends [there] but I don’t care, I'm going, I'm going," Lewis addded with a smile.

The president may be excited, too: Obama called "Homeland" one of his top television picks in an interview with People last year.