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Avenue 5, we are go for launch. One day after its Sunday night veteran Silicon Valley wrapped its run, HBO said today that its new comedy from Veep creator Armando Iannucci starring Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad will lift off at 10 p.m. Sunday, January 19. Created and co-written by Iannucci, Avenue 5 is a space tourism…

BBC Studios’ CEO Tim Davie has become the latest high-powered British television executive to sound the alarm about audiences being oversupplied with content. Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry conference in London on Monday, Davie talked about the changes to the TV industry in the context of…

Little more than a year ago, satirist Armando Iannucci tweeted a joke about Donald Trump that sent the social networking site into meltdown. The Veep creator proposed a film idea, in which Trump is drugged and moved to a replica White House, where he carries on playing at being president while surrounded by Truman Show…

Veep creator Armando Iannucci has, in his signature withering fashion, predicted the death of the streaming wars. Just days after the launch of Apple TV Plus and with new streamers from Disney, Quibi and NBC on the horizon, Iannucci said not all can survive because audiences will simply have too much choice. Speaking…

Veep creator Armando Iannucci returned to TIFF with his third feature—and a surprise for those expecting another of his irreverent, expletive-laden satires. Condensed but otherwise quite faithfully adapted from Charles Dickens's classic 19th-centure novel David Copperfield, Iannucci's film turned out to be entirely…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has preemptively acquired North American rights to The Personal History of David Copperfield, the Armando Iannucci-directed drama that makes its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, to be followed by its European premiere as the opening film of…

UPDATED, writethru: A fire that broke out late last night at Warner Bros’ historic Leavesden studios just outside London and took 15 hours to extinguish has damaged the the set of HBO’s Avenue 5, the space comedy from Veep creator Armando Iannucci. Emergency services put out the sizable fire this morning UK time. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Himesh Patel has been cast opposite Hugh Laurie in Armando Iannucci's HBO space comedy Avenue 5. Created by Iannucci, Avenue 5 is a space tourism comedy set 40 years in the future when the solar system is everyone's oyster. With Hugh Laurie as the Captain, nothing can go wrong. Patel will play Jordan…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Veep series finale. Plus this article contains language inappropriate for almost anyone, but that’s Veep, isn’t it?  Game of Thrones doesn't end until next week, but tonight's series finale of Veep showed a very different way to snare another type of Iron…

"I think it ends in what will be a very satisfying for the audience," says Reid Scott of the final and current season of Veep in today's episode of Next Generation TV. "We talked about it a lot, because the show obviously became so precious to us but also there's not a lot of shows these days that actually get to see…

As Armando Iannucci’s Veep is airing its final season on HBO, the premium cable network has picked up a new series from the British creator. HBO has given a series order to Iannucci’s space comedy pilot Avenue 5, starring Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods and Nikki Amuka-Bird. Created, written and executive produced…

Deception and Being Human alum Lenora Crichlow has been cast opposite Hugh Laurie, Zach Woods, Suzy Nakamura, Rebecca Front, Josh Gad and Nikki Amuka-Bird in Armando Iannucci's HBO space comedy pilot Avenue 5. Created, written and executive produced by Iannucci, the tentatively titled project is set in the future…