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Gina McKee, 49, rose to fame in BBC drama Our Friends In The North. She plays Italian countess Caterina Sforza in The Borgias, the drama about the pope-producing high-flyers.

Armando Iannucci , the acclaimed satirist and creator of the HBO comedy Veep , is a self-described longtime politics geek.

Starting this past week, and for the next three months, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will be "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" with John Oliver.

As we indicated when the teaser trailer arrived earlier this year , Steve Coogan made quite a name for himself as Alan Partridge , a fictional chat show host similar to that of "The Larry Sanders Show" in the U.S. or Sacha Baron Cohen's various characters across the pond.

There was no wink and they never sold it out for these half-hour, densely, beautifully produced pieces, which is, for all possibilities, obscuring that this doesn't at all sound like a comedy show.

The U.S. economy expanded less than previously estimated in the first quarter. Gross domestic product rose at a 2.4 percent annualized rate, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.

What Do I Have to Do to Get You to Watch Veep? Veep is an HBO comedy of political ill-manners, currently in its second season.

Veep is an HBO comedy of political ill-manners, currently in its second season. It was created by mastermind architect of vicious profanity , Armando Iannucci, about Vice President Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Meyer presides over a staff-including actors Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, and Reid Scott-that spends their time leaping and ... (more)