EXCLUSIVE: Avenue 5‘s space voyage may be coming to an end. Season 2 of Armando Iannucci’s space comedy, delayed by the pandemic, has not been scheduled yet.
I hear it will likely launch in the fall and is expected to be the series’ last. A rep for HBO declined comment.This is not surprising.
Season 1 of Avenue 5, Iannucci’s followup series to the Emmy-winning Veep, premiered in January 2020 and was renewed for a second season in February of that year, just a couple of weeks before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Filming on the new season, delayed by Covid, finally got underway in August 2021 and wrapped in November.Given the time that has passed, the options on the cast, led by Hugh Laurie, came up, and the actors were released, sources tell Deadline.
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