'Veep' Creator To Appear On ABC's 'Q&A' Next Week

The creator of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning HBO comedy Veep, Armando Iannucci, will join the panel of ABC's Q&A next week. 

The writer and director, who also served as the program's showrunner from 2012-2015, will also be joined on the show by Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, and Deputy Opposition Leader, Tanya Plibersek, among others. 

Since its premiere in 2012, Veep has won a number of Emmy awards including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2015, while lead star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, holds the record for most consecutive wins for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category, taking it out five straight times.

As well as his work on Veep, adapted from British sitcom The Thick of It, Iannucci has been credited as developing the popular Alan Partridge character, portrayed by UK actor Steve Coogan, on spoof BBC radio programme, On The Hour.

Next week's Q&A screens at 9.35pm on Monday, 1 May, on ABC.