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Selina Meyer’s reelection campaign won’t get underway until next year. According to Veep‘s Matt Walsh, the Emmy-winning comedy’s seventh and final season is expected to begin production in August, once star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has had enough time to recuperate after undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. As such, the series’ swan song is not expected to […]
Armando Iannucci, the profane genius responsible for Veep and In the Loop, has already had his way with American and English politics. So naturally, he’s set his sights elsewhere with his latest project, The Death of Stalin. As the title implies, the film takes place in the Soviet Union and tracks what goes down with the nation’s […]
The unexpected Venom casting keeps on keeping on with yet another surprise name thrown into the mix: Veep‘s Reid Scott. Scott joins an already impressive and still growing cast centered around Tom Hardy playing one of Spider-Man’s main antagonists. We’re still not quite sure how a Spider-Man-free Venom spin-off movie will work, but so far the casting for […]
Steve Bannon privately slammed the selection of Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s running mate a month before taking over the Trump campaign, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News. The email exchange during Bannon’s first stint as executive chairman of Breitbart is of new relevance as Bannon — two months removed from his role as […]
Anyone who’s seen HBO’s Veep, the 2009 film In The Loop, or the British TV series The Thick of It knows that writer/director Armando Iannucci has a biting and unique take on political comedy. His characters have a way of speaking that could be referred to as melodiously offensive, and it looks like he’s done it again with The […]
Getty Images The INSIDER Summary: Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the Primetime Emmy for outstanding actress in a comedy series for “Veep.” This is the sixth consecutive year Louis-Dreyfus has won the award for “Veep.” The only other actor to ever come close to that sort of winning streak in the category has been Helen Hunt. The 56-year-old […]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the team behind HBO’s Veep have put a term limit on Selina Meyer: The comedy will end after its upcoming seventh season, per The Hollywood Reporter. The Emmy-winning series’ final run of 10 episodes will air in 2018. Star Louis-Dreyfus tells the site that Season 7 is a clear stopping point for the […]
If you’ve ever watched Veep or The Thick of It and wished you could see them done in a post-World War II Soviet Union, you’re in luck. Armando Iannucci, creator of the above foul-mouthed political comedies and director of The Thick of It’s film spin-off In the Loop, is bringing that same brand of crass comedy to Russia, with […]
Armondo Iannucci’s last feature film, In the Loop, was a deliciously pointed and uproariously funny political satire – and, it turned out, a midpoint between his two greatest television successes, BBC’s The Thick of It and HBO’s Veep, introducing the element of American politics to his work (and even including Anna Chlumsky in a supporting […]
A.P. Bio is still experimenting with its cast. The NBC midseason comedy has added Jean Villepique (Veep, The Office) to the cast as a series regular, TVLine has learned. Villepique will play hard-partying high school teacher Michelle — the role played by SNL alum Vanessa Bayer in the original pilot. (Bayer had to drop out […]
