I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. Veep is an upcoming HBO comedy series, set to debut shortly after Game of Thrones kicks off its second season in April. It’s the brainchild of Armando Iannucci, who was responsible for the hilarious political backstabbing comedy The Thick of It, and its motion picture spin-off, In The Loop, which garnered Ianucci an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay.
If it’s anything like The Thick of It, I expect, literally, some of the best swearing ever on television. And, hey, this isn’t NBC we’re talking about. Iannucci’s characters are politicians and civil servants in their most inept and self-serving forms. (To be fair, he also skewers the media, the opposition, and everyone else in a position of power.) But I’ll let you see for yourself, because somehow the Beeb has allowed folks to upload the episodes to YouTube, and they’ve been there for years. Here’s episode 1 in two parts.
We can only hope that Iannucci found a way to write in Peter Capaldi’s absolutely brilliant Malcolm Tucker. I can’t wait.
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