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Former Veep showrunner David Mandel had some fun with the US Senate bill that would end Daylight Savings Time. Mandel shared a letter from the show’s VP, Jonah Ryan, that extolled the legislative action. "Our long national nightmare and daymare is over," the letter reads. "Yesterday, the United States Senate finally…

EXCLUSIVE: Filming on HBO’s The White House Plumbers resumed August 12, sources tell Deadline. Production on the five-part Watergate limited series, starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, was suspended August 5 following an on-set incident involving series director/executive producer David Mandel and a member of…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED with more information: Filming on HBO's five-part Watergate limited series The White House Plumbers, starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, has been suspended over an on-set incident this week that have triggered an investigation. “HBO has received reports of alleged unprofessional behavior on…

EXCLUSIVE: Some of Hollywood's Harvard veterans are helping out scribes from their top tier alma mater find their voices and perhaps become Tinseltown’s future. Harvardwood today announced the winners of its Writers Competition winners and Most Staffable TV List (see the full list below) The 18-year old program aims…

Selina Meyer and the entire Veep gang are back! Julia Louis-Dreyfus and showrunner David Mandel have been teasing the virtual read all week which will feature original cast members and a couple of special guests performing the “Mother” episode from Season 5. The event takes place tonight at 8pm ET and helps support…

EXCLUSIVE: The 26th Annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference is putting some shine on the often unsung and overlooked heroes of film: the writer. This year, the fest revealed that they will be honoring Oscar-winning screenwriters James Ivory with the "Extraordinary Contribution to Film" Award and Ron Bass with…

"It's a hugely proud piece of my life," says Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the seven seasons of the now concluded and much acclaimed Veep. "It's the highlight of my career," added the eleven-time Emmy winner this week at a packed Deadline Screening Series panel. "Accolades aside, which are wonderful and everything, I…

Coming onto Veep as showrunner in Season 5, David Mandel has been caught since then between a rock and a hard place. "It's funny. When I started this thing, the question was always, 'What are you doing about the pressure of taking over for Armando [Iannucci]?' Then, I guess I got a year off, and it's now turned into…

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 Veep is coming to an end, the Emmy-winning series’ executive producer/showrunner David Mandel is staying in business with HBO. Mandel has signed a three-year exclusive TV overall deal with the premium cable network to develop and produce series projects. Seinfeld alum Mandel accomplished a rare feat on Veep. He was…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Mandel lifted the lid on the final season of Veep, calling it the "right ending for America" as well as joking about potential spinoffs. The pair discussed the final seven episodes of the HBO comedy. Louis-Dreyfus, speaking to TCA via videotape from Austria, said that her Selina…