Former President Selina Meyer plans comeback with Veep season 6 release date.
President Selina Meyer will look back on a short legacy as commander-in-chief of the United States after an unprecedented turn in the elections, but Julia Louis-Dreyfuss continues to serve as First Lady of TV Comedy. The actress announced the Veep season 6 release date on HBO.
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it! New season of veep!” Dreyfus tweeted on February 7.
Veep season 6 premieres on Sunday, April 16 at 10:30 p.m.
Veep season 6 will run 10 episodes and follow the former vice president’s first post-Presidential year. Meyer was never actually voted into office, she got the job on the heels of a presidential scandal that left her in charge. Her successor got in when Washington couldn’t break a tie.
Dreyfus won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the fifth year in a row in September and pulled in the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series last month.
Veep won two best comedy Emmys and took home the best directing comedy series trophy at Saturday’s DGA Awards
Blunt Talk’s Mary Holland will play a high powered political fundraiser on Veep season 6. There is no word on whether she will be raising funds for the now-ex-POTUS.
Veep stars record-setting –Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus the former vice president, President Selina Meyer. Veep also stars Emmy winner Tony Hale, Emmy nominee Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw and Kevin Dunn.
Veep was created by Armando Iannucci who was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the Tony Blaire era political film In the Loop.The new showrunner is David Mandel, who ran Larry David’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Veep Season 6 Premiere Date
Veep season 6 premieres on Sunday, April 16 at 10:30 p.m. There is no word on when Silicon Valley, Veep’s usual Sunday-night companion comedy, will premiere. Winter comes to Game of Thronesthis summer.
SOURCE: EW