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Armando Iannucci is staying in business with HBO and is teaming up with Sam Mendes for the ride. The Veep and Avenue 5 creator and the Oscar-winning director have scored a pilot order for comedy The Franchise at the premium cable network. The series comes from the mind of Mendes and marks the 1917 director’s first…

His Dark Materials and Help writer Jack Thorne has been recognized for Outstanding Contribution to Writing at tonight’s 29th Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards (WGGBAs), with Russell T Davies, Emerald Fennell and Armando Iannucci also taking home gongs. The prolific Thorne, who delivered this year’s Edinburgh…

Hours after the UK government fired the starting gun on a process that could end with Channel 4 being privatized, the backlash has begun, with the likes of Veep creator Armando Iannucci railing against the proposals. Ministers have launched a consultation on Channel 4’s future and culture secretary Oliver Dowden has…

The Personal History Of David Copperfield filmmaker Armando Iannucci and Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan will be the recipients of the inaugural DDA Spotlight Award at 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The honorary prize was set up to time with the 50th anniversary of comms company DDA and will…

Refresh for latest…: As the United States wakes up to the news that the presidential election is still undecided, industry fixtures are beginning to chime in with a mix of hope and anxiety. But, despite Donald Trump's false claim that he "already won" over Joe Biden on Tuesday night, several stars posting on Twitter…

With a filmography that includes satirical high points such as Veep, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin and The Thick of It, you might not have guessed that a Charles Dickens adaptation would be front and center for writer-director Armando Iannucci, but The Personal History of David Copperfield is an inspired choice…

On the heels of the launch of season 1, HBO has renewed comedy series Avenue 5 for a second season. "We've loved every minute of Avenue 5's inaugural voyage," says Amy Gravitt, EVP HBO Programming. "Armando Iannucci and his team are masters of smart and incisive comedy, and the ensemble cast, brilliantly captained by…

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…