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Following lengthy negotiations, Veep alum Reid Scott has closed a deal for the male lead opposite Janina Gavankar in NBC drama pilot Echo. Scott also will serve as a producer on the project, from JJ Bailey, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Bailey, Echo is a high-concept, genre procedural…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Veep‘s Reid Scott has joined the cast of CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill, a darkly comedic drama from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. Created by Cherry, Why Women Kill details the lives of three women living in three different decades — a housewife in…

EXCLUSIVE: Frank Grillo, Reid Scott, Beau Knapp and Tyrese Gibson are set to join Naomie Harris in the Deon Taylor-directed cop thriller Black and Blue, which is set up under Sony’s Screen Gems label. Written by Peter A. Dowling, the pic follows a rookie New Orleans cop (Harris) who rounds the corner just as corrupt…

Veep regular Reid Scott has landed a role in Sony’s Marvel movie Venom. No details about his character in the film starring Tom Hardy as the Spider-Man supervillain. Ruben Fleischer is directing the pic from a screenplay from Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner. Sony has set a release date for October 5, 2018. Scott…

EXCLUSIVE: Reid Scott has joined his Veep co-star Matt Walsh in the upcoming romance Under The Eiffel Tower, from director Archie Borders. Co-written by Borders and David Henry, the film was picked up by The Orchard, with plans to release it sometime next year. Walsh stars as a bourbon salesman who is fighting off 50…

Team Selina Meyer will stay intact on HBO’s Emmy-winning comedy series Veep. The premium cable network has closed one-year deals with all original cast members on the show to return for the upcoming seventh season, I have learned. That includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons…

EXCLUSIVE: Veep‘s Reid Scott has been cast in Home Again starring Reese Witherspoon along with Candice Bergen and Michael Sheen. The indie comedy is written and helmed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer and is set to begin production later this month.  Open Road will release the pic domestically in late 2017. Witherspoon plays a…

Reid Scott and Christina Scherer have joined the cast of The Intern for writer-director Nancy Meyers. The Warner Bros comedy revolves around a seventysomething widower (Robert De Niro) who enters an internship program and is assigned to the founder of a successful fashion website (Anne Hathaway). Scott will play Eric…

Veep‘s Reid Scott is keeping busy with three film roles while on hiatus from the HBO comedy. (Veep returned last week for a ten-episode third season.) He’s joined Jessica Alba and Lily Rabe in Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ The Veil, about a documentary crew who returns to the site of a cult massacre with the…

Reid Scott, Tim Simons and Matt Walsh have joined the cast of HBO’s comedy pilot Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Washington, D.C.-set project, from British comedian, writer and director Armando Iannucci, centers on former Senator Selina Meyer (Louis-Dreyfus) who becomes Vice President. Former My Boys…