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Avenue 5 Season 2: HBO's Merciless Space Comedy Returns in October

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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 system is no longer the stuff of sci-fi fantasy but a booming, multibillion-dollar business.

Avenue 5 Not Renewed for Season 3, Probably Cancelled
Avenue 5, still: HBO

Avenue 5 takes us to a not-so-distant future where space tourism is a booming business. While manning a luxury spacecraft owned by Herman Judd (Josh Gad), Captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) finds himself in over his head when the ship is thrown disastrously off-course – turning what was meant to be an eight-week cruise into an eight-year journey. Picking up five months after failing to reroute the vessel, season two follows the crew – including fiery engineer Billie (Lenora Crichlow), unpredictable head of customer relations Matt (Zach Woods), and faithful right-hand Iris (Suzy Nakamura) – as they struggle to lead, calm, control, and, if need be, hide from increasingly unruly passengers. On earth, they're lauded as heroes, and in space, everyone can hear them scream. You could see the series as a metaphor for our divided times, an allegory for America or Brexit Britain… or both.

Season two series regulars include Hugh Laurie, Josh Gad, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Ethan Phillips. Guest Stars include Andy Buckley, Jessica St. Clair, Kyle Bornheimer, Adam Pålsson, Daisy May Cooper, Lucy Punch, Leila Farzad, Jonathan Aris, and Arsher Ali.

Avenue 5 was created by Armando Iannucci for HBO hot off the success of Veep. The executive producers are Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, and Will Smith; co-executive producers Keith Akushie, Jon Brown, and Sean Gray; supervising producers Ian Martin and Rose Heiney; line producer Richard Daldry. Avenue 5 is also a co-production with Sky UK.

Avenue 5 is on HBO.

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Adi TantimedhAbout Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.
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