Veep Returning for Third Season

LOS ANGELES: HBO has placed an order for a third season of the Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy Veep, from creator Armando Iannucci.

Season three will have ten new episodes, launching in 2014. The show kicked off its second season on April 14, exclusively on HBO.

Louis-Dreyfus plays Selina Meyer, the Vice President of the United States, accompanied by Ton Hale, who plays her right-hand man; Anna Chlumsky, portraying her chief of staff; Reid Scott, playing an ambitious political aide; and others.