Avenue 5 is an American science-fiction series from HBO. The series comes from the creators of Veep. The series is set forty years into the future. Space tourism is no longer a dream, but a growing, hard and above all lucrative business. In
Avenue 5 we follow captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie) and the crew of a luxury cruise ship in space where technical difficulties on board cause unexpected events and especially displeased passengers. Rebecca Front, Lenora Crichlow, Suzy Nakamura and Ethan Phillips are also part of the cast.
HBO has announced that a second season of
Avenue 5 will be made. That is fast, because only four episodes of the first season have been released. “We’ve loved every minute of
Avenue 5’s inaugural voyage,” said Amy Gravitt, executive vice president of HBO programming. “Armando Iannucci and his team are masters of smart and incisive comedy, and the ensemble cast, brilliantly captained by Hugh Laurie, is second to none. We can’t wait to see what’s in store for our hapless heroes in season two.”
