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…
After lengthy negotiations, Hugh Laurie has formally closed a deal to star in HBO’s comedy pilot Avenue 5 (tentative title), from Veep creator Armando Iannucci.
Created, written and executive produced by Iannucci, Avenue 5 is set in the future, mostly in space. Laurie will play the lead Ryan Clark, the charming and…
EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Laurie, coming off a two-season starring turn on Hulu’s Chance, is reuniting with the streaming platform for a co-starring role in Catch-22, Hulu's high-profile limited series co-starring and directed by George Clooney. Written by Luke Davies and David Michôd based on the seminal Joseph Heller novel, Ca…
Parks and Recreation alum Paul Schneider has signed on as a series regular opposite Hugh Laurie in the second season of Hulu's drama series Chance.
The psychological thriller based on Kem Nunn's novel focuses on Dr. Eldon Chance (Laurie), a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked…
Following a misleading report in a British trade this week, questions have arisen as to the status of a second season of BBC/AMC hit event series The Night Manager. The partners, along with producer The Ink Factory, have sought to quell the hullabaloo that story caused, and are clearly stating that nothing is set. In…
Vice Media has inked a slew of international mobile deals and is planning a vast rollout in the Asia Pacific region, its founder and CEO Shane Smith announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday. The new slate of partnerships includes original production, licensing, direct-to-consumer offerings and…
EXCLUSIVE: After sitting out 2016, INTV, the television and media conference that's organized by Israel's Keshet Media Group, is gearing up for a March rendez-vous in Jerusalem. Among the senior U.S. executives who’ll be in town to discuss challenges and changes facing the industry are CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zuck…
Twelve days before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Meryl Streep gave what would have been the best political speech of the White House race cycle, except it was delivered exactly two months after Trump was elected, as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden…
Yes, Hugh Laurie plays a doctor on Hulu’s Chance, but the October 19-debuting series is no House – and I don't mean that in a good way. The series based on Kem Nunn's 2014 novel is, as I say in my video review above, an ill-considered step backwards for the home of Casual and The Path.
Few actors can do empathy or…
The Night Manager is really about Englishness in so many ways," says Tom Hiddleston of the Emmy nominated AMC limited series. "That there is a man with a British Passport out there who is spilling blood and making money from it," the actor added of co-star Hugh Laurie's role as arms dealer Richard Roper and his…
We’re getting the first look at Hulu’s new drama series Chance, based on Kem Nunn's novel and starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Mol, in a teaser dropped today at TCA.
The psychological thriller focuses on Dr. Eldon Chance (Laurie), a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a…
