The Veep season 5 premiere date is coming sometime in 2016, and it’s going to be the most different season of the show ever—ever. That’s because series creator and showrunner Armando Ianucci is, well, no longer the showrunner. He’s gone. Veep has a new boss, same as the old boss—David Mandel is running the show now, and he’s got pretty darn solid credentials. So don’t worry too much about the new version.
Veep Season 5 Premiere Date: More Like Seinfeld And Curb, But Still Like Itself
Veep season 5 is officially happening, and it’ll drop on us in 2016—probably at roughly the same time as the previous seasons, in April 2016. Alas, Ianucci’s departure will certainly change the show, even though it seems like most of the rest of the team is staying the same. And his reason for leaving is pretty easy to understand—Ianucci is a Briton; his family lives in Britain; the strains of making a show in America was starting to hurt his family, so he’s moving on and heading back to London on a year-round basis.
Luckily, David Mandel is, well, just as qualified as Ianucci himself. Because Mandel worked on two of the best comedies ever—Seinfeld, a show about friends in New York City who hang out in an apartment together, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, a comedy about rich married people having dinner parties. It’s not much of a jump from that to a comedy of manners about the highest office in the land. And of course that means Mandel has worked with Julia Louis-Dreyfus before, and she’s the heart of the show. I wouldn’t worry too much about the tone of the show changing.
Veep’s continued existence is always a pleasant surprise. Hell, Selina isn’t even the veep anymore—and what’s most impressive is how little has changed after her position changed. The same issues still beset her, but on a bigger scale. Trivial mistakes become huge problems; minor misunderstandings blow up into huge disasters. And that’s exactly what Seinfeld and Curb were about, so I wouldn’t worry too much about the show losing its delicious awkwardness. It’s in good hands.
Veep season 5 will premiere in 2016.
