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The debut of HBO’s latest comedy series, the Julia Louis-Dreyfus starrer Veep, drew 1.4 million viewers at 10 PM Sunday. That was up 8% from the season premiere in the slot of Eastbound & Down, which followed the modestly rated Luck vs. Game Of Thrones for Veep. Compared with the series finale of Eastbound a week ago, Veep was up 28%. For the night, including a 12 AM airing, Veep averaged 1.7 million viewers. In its second airing, fellow new HBO comedy Girls (858,000) held steady, down 2% from its premiere despite a stronger lead-in. For the night, Lena Dunham’s series posted 1.1 million viewers. (Its gross audience for the premiere episode has crossed 3.2 million, HBO says.) Kicking things off at 9 PM was Game Of Thrones, which drew 3.7 million viewers, down a fraction from the previous week (3.8 million). Its nightly average was 4.6 million.
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Veep is funny. Julia is terrific. Writing and cast are equally good.
Oddly, as much as this is a comedy, there is an under current that it may not be as far from reality as one might assume which is a bit scary.
Wow- was that show bad. I won’t be watching it again. its just NOT FUNNY
Exactly what I was going to say. I didn’t laugh or even smile once!
I was waiting to laugh the whole episode…I am still waiting…
Glasses are the wheelchair for the eyes…..this show has lots of promise hopefully it grows in the right direction
That was the joke that made me realize I wasn’t going to like this show.
I really liked Veep. I thought it was super funny and laughed many times during its half hour.
…that HBO is re-discovering its voice.
Not with this show- Decidely not funny!
Favorite new comedy! BRILLIANT!
Enjoyed the show. Thought it was very funny.
Excellent show, and funny in all of the right places. Having worked in politics and government for over 20 years, so much of it rings true and the insider dialogue is dead-on.
As we all know, comedy is subjective. Me? I didn’t laugh as much as the critics told me I should.
When I saw the headline I thought HOLY CRAP! and then I saw the decimal point.
Is that really Sara Palin? ZING!
I couldn’t take more than a few minutes of this show. Lines like “Is this going to be like ‘Moonlighting’? Are we going to start f*@!ing each other now?” are just rude and unfunny, not to mention that the reference is so last decade.
Correction: The reference is so last millenium.
Not loving GIRLS at all, and I was really hoping to. Are we supposed to like any of the characters? It’s the only production in the history of film or tv where my boyfriend has complained “too much nudity”
I liked Veep and will be a regular viewer. It was amusing, well written and beautifully played by the talented Julia.
This series is dead.
It was uncomfortably funny. Julia is great and glad to see Anna. West Wing was what I hoped government was Veep is what I actually believe happens.
There is enough comedy bang in the pilot to see what’s coming next. The cast is great and everyone is game to skewer the gov’t.
Veep plus Girls are two of the worst shows I have seen on HBO in a long time. Nothing funny about them in the slightest.
Terrible. Yeah, the roots are there for a decent peek into that world, but it’s crude and stupid and most of all not funny. Obvious attempt at The Office format with a an “edge” that’s just juvenile.
What’s happening to HBO? No way a loogie like “Veep” makes the schedule back when this network had real shows. I didn’t buy JL-D as VP of the US for even a nanosecond….the writing was jaw-droppingly lame….and in a post-”West Wing” universe, how can you offer viewers a show about Washington politics where every single detail of tone, texture, and DC tribal rites is so spectacularly wrong?
Because The West Wing was fantasy?
Yeah, being a big fan of Julia’s, I was eagerly looking forward to this. Big disappointment. I too didn’t buy her as a veep. The whole execution and camera movements were overly manic and needlessly oversaturated with expletives. I’m a much bigger fan of taking a breath and lingering over moments, a la Mad Men, drama or not.
Saw this show and it was absolutely horrible…she got lucky with Old Christine for 5 years but this show will be one season and done as there’s no viable concept to it and the writing is just horrid. She hasn’t been relevant on TV since Seinfeld went off the air in 1998. No soup for you Julia!
The writing was juvenile and unfunny. Julia’s acting was fake and as bad as I can remember seeing on a show. My God it was all a complete pretentious mess.
Veep and the distasteful Girls have me scratching my head as to what the hell is going on with HBO creative these days.
ok, this is ridiculous. I watched the show and thought it was amazing. girls is genius. Are we as an industry really that jealous of HBOs success? They have captured people’s imaginations with many different shows, some for you, some not for you, all outstanding in their own artistic way. Every person reading or posting on this site would give their left arm to have created or been involved with either one of these shows. just because you haven’t, don’t hate on them. Go sign on to Two Broke Girls if Girls has too many swear words or sex scenes, grandma.
Liked the first ep. JLD just has to watch the scenery chewing. This show will be about the ensemble. And Matt Walsh is hilarious. Glad he’s finally getting a show to shine on.
VEEP is basically an American version of the British show ‘The Thick of It’ (The basis for the film ‘In the Loop.’) It’s definitely enjoyable so far, but Veep is sorely missing that curse-master Scottish press minister for the PM.