Avenue 5 Archives

Rejoice, misanthropes, for Armando Iannucci's merciless comedy about awful people trapped on a spaceship, Avenue 5, is returning for a second season! The eight-episode second season premieres on October 10th on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max The comedy series is set 40 years in the future when traveling the solar[...]

It appears Armando Iannucci's darkly satirical HBO space comedy Avenue 5 has been canceled Deadline Hollywood reported that it has not been renewed, the completed Season 2 has not yet been scheduled, and the cast has been released from their contracts The cable series is set forty years in the future when traveling the solar[...]

Gad currently plays a tech-bro manchild in HBO's Avenue 5. Fisher, known for her roles in features such as Wedding Crashers and Definitely Maybe, is an underused comic talent who really should be seen in more productions Hopefully, Wolf Like Me will start to rectify that.  Peacock has ordered a full series of Wolf Like Me, a six-episode half-hour genre-bending romantic comedy[...]

What a difference a few weeks makes, eh? When Amando Iannucci's new comedy series Avenue 5 premiered back in mid-January, viewers and critics reacted with bafflement and confusion The show stars Hugh Laurie as the hapless captain of a luxury space cruiser that gets thrown off course Instead of a six-month jaunt through the galaxy,[...]

We mentioned that the great British comedy writer/actor John Finnemore was going to both be writing for and appearing in Armando Iannucci's sci-fi comedy Avenue 5, airing on HBO in the US and Sky One. And a brief stab at the end of last week's episode and a fuller appearance in this week's, confirm him as[...]

There's a space leisure industry now, and Avenue 5, the title cruise liner, is the top of the line When a gravity mishap causes the 5,000 people onboard to crash against one side of the ship, it tips if off its course and a planned 8-week trip around Saturn will now take 3 years to[...]

But that's the comparison that actor Josh Gad made during the press junket for his new series Avenue 5 ("It's the 'Game of Thrones' of comedy"). The new space-bound series is a futuristic show set on an "ocean liner" (er, "space liner"?) helmed by Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie), funded by Herman Judd (Gad), and managed by[...]

January 19th sees the launch of Avenue 5 on HBO in the USA and on the 22nd on Sky One in the UK A new sci-fi sitcom created by On The Hour, The Day Today, Friday Night Armastice, I'm Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It and Veep's Armando Iannucci, it stars Hugh Laurie as Ryan[...]

Like it or loathe it, Lindelof definitely doesn't play it safe. "Avenue 5" (2019) Hugh Laurie is a the captain of the Avenue 5, a luxury liner for space travel Set in the future, this comedy is created by Veep's Armando Ianucci and expected to have a premier date set any time now… "Betty" (2020?) A skateboarding comedy based[...]

Need more? I didn't think so. https://youtu.be/rfwzI6_320AVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: HBO Coming Soon 2019 Fall / 2020 Midseason Trailer (https://youtu.be/rfwzI6_320A) "Avenue 5" (HBO) Okay, it is another space show, but this is in the future and stars Hugh Laurie Honestly, either one of those is enough to sell me… but together? Oh man[...]

With HBO's Emmy-award dominating political comedy heading into its final season, the cable giant has greenlighted a pilot and back-up scripts for Iannucci's new comedy series Avenue 5 (working title) Created, written and executive produced by Iannucci, all that's currently known about the series is that it's reportedly set in the future on board a[...]