Avenue 5 Renewed for Second Season at HBO
Armando Iannucci has been given reign to another season of letting rich people devolve while lost in space in his new series Avenue 5 at HBO.
Not that hey didn’t have free reign to do whatever he wants, but imagining what Iannucci would do with a whole other season with his highest concept work to date has us pretty damn excited.
Congrats to any and all of Avenue 5.
Armando Iannucci has used Zach Woods briefly, but very sagaciously over the years in both In The Loop and VEEP. Woods really has a knack for playing the sort of beautifully inept characters that Iannucci has founded his entire brand on.
Iannucci’s new HBO series Avenue 5 will see Woods in a much more substantial role that will allow Woods to get more in over his head than he has been in his past collaborations with Armando.
Just see how satisfying it is with Woods “attempting” to make a space cruise “sound” luxurious.
Avenue 5 will premiere next Sun. Jan. 19th on HBO.
OK, we’re now seeing much more of the idyllic setting of a space cruise on the upcoming high concept HBO comedy Avenue 5.
The floating space paradise seems to be ruined by some sort of malfunction, which gives the perfect set up for those killer one-liner burns, traded back-and-forth at a mile-a-minute that are part of Iannucci’s signature style. Also, Josh Gad taking on a bit of a Michael Scott as a space tourism entrepreneur has a lot of promise as well.
Get a taste of all of that with this full trailer for Avenue 5 here, then look for the premiere on Sun. Jan. 19th on HBO.
Up until very recently, Armando Iannucci pretty much wheeled and dealed in devastatingly funny political satire with In The Loop, Veep, The Thick of It, Death of Stalin.
This latest HBO series sees one of most brilliant comedic voices of our time take on something more in the realm of sci-fi. Avenue 5 follows a space cruise (kind of like the one in the Fifth Element) for the ultra-wealthy and how things, of course, go awry. Also, Hugh Laurie gets to be a series regular again as well as the apparent head of this space cruise named Avenue 5. Thus far, we’re on board for whatever this will end up being.
See for yourself in this teaser, then be thankful you only have to wait until January to see the premiere.
HBO Smartly Picks Up Armando Iannucci’s Latest Comedy ‘Avenue 5’ to Series
As Veep is closing out its final season, there was a bit of time where we weren’t sure if there was going to be an Armando Iannucci comedy (Iannucci is undoubtedly one of the most genius comedic minds working today; see In The Loop, Death of Stalin, Thick of It in addition to Veep) on TV for us to ravenously consume.
HBO thankfully will be passing the baton from Veep to Avenue 5, Armando’s latest comedy that will be set in the future of space tourism and will star Hugh Laurie as a space cruise captain. As to what that might look or sound like, we’ll have to wait for a trailer, but Iannucci’s biting, fast-paced, brutally funny writing really ought to work in most backdrops. Maybe it’ll be a more whipsmart, hysterical version of the space cruise scenes from The Fifth Element?
Whatever it may be, we, like with all of Iannucci’s work, can’t wait to see it.
Hugh Laurie to Star in Armando Iannucci’s Space Comedy Pilot at HBO
Avenue 5 might only be a pilot at the premium cable network, but Hugh Laurie and Armando Iannucci only sounds like a winning combination. Put the setting of space on top of that and it seems like a delicious icing on an already gorgeous cake.
We’re imagining a House M.D.-ish Hugh Laurie perhaps in some sort of position of power at NASA or fictional equivalent. Even if we’re far off the mark, this is definitely one project to keep track of.
Also, this would probably be a great opportunity for Iannucci to rightfully send up Trump’s idiotic waste of the budge known as the “Space Force”.
HBO Orders Pilot for “Avenue 5”, an Armando Iannucci Space Comedy
As Veep (created by Armando Iannucci) is on its way out on its own terms, HBO wisely wants to stay in the Iannucci business and has already put their money down for a pilot of his latest project, Avenue 5, a futuristic comedy set, most likely, on a space ship.
Now, that is pretty much the only detail that currently exists for the project, but it should be noted how much of a departure it is for the mastermind behind modern political comedy such as Veep, In The Loop, The Thick of It, and the upcoming Death of Stalin.
So, we’re imagining that an Armando Iannucci space comedy will have to deal with the ridiculousness of “exo-politics”, perhaps making fun of the Treaty of Greada or the heirarchy between the Greys, Reptilians, Nords, humans, etc.