"Veep" To End with Season 7 on HBO
by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
September 6, 2017


HBO’s "Veep" is coming to an end. The multi-Emmy-winning series will wrap its run with its upcoming seventh season in 2018, which will be its last.

“The decision to bring Veep to a close at the end of next season is bittersweet,” HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys said in a statement. “We love the show and everyone involved but respect the producers’ choice to bring Selina Meyer’s journey to its conclusion after an extraordinary run of critical and award-winning acclaim.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ comedic brilliance infused Selina with a dynamic presence and a vibrant wit which will ensure her a place in the history of television’s most iconic comedic characters. We look forward to producing the seventh and final season.”

http://deadline.com/2017/09/veep-end-season-7-hbo-1202163108/

Shows awesome, but it was running out of places to go.

Maybe this will give some other woman a chance to win the lead actress comedy Emmy.

Why is the show ending so soon?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbos-veep-end-season-7-1036027

The revelation by Julia Louis-Dreyfus today that Season 7 will be the HBO comedy’s last will mark the end of an era for the pay cable network. "It became clear that this season should be the last season," Louis-Dreyfus tells The Hollywood Reporter. "We don't want to repeat ourselves or wear out our welcome. The story has a finality to it that feels end-of-series." HBO president Casey Bloys calls it a “bittersweet” decision. And with one more season of Game of Thrones left, it will soon be the end of an era (http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/veep-ending-hbo-seven-seasons-julia-louis-dreyfus-1201873659/) for HBO. As Michael Schneider notes, "The double whammy is reminiscent of how HBO also lost its two biggest shows in the 2000s, when The Sopranos and Sex and the City went off the air around the same time. Back then, pundits wondered whether HBO would recover — but of course, along came Thrones and Veep, which have both been ratings and awards juggernauts.”