HBO RENEWS VEEP FOR A FOURTH SEASON AND
SILICON VALLEY FOR A SECOND SEASON
LOS ANGELES, April 21, 2014 – HBO has renewed the comedy series VEEP for a fourth season and SILICON VALLEY for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. The renewals follow the recent two-season renewal of “Game of Thrones.”
Created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar® nominee for co-writing “In the Loop”), VEEP stars Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, who becomes vice president, only to discover The Job is nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. The Emmy®-nominated and Writers Guild Award-winning series kicked off its ten-episode third season Sunday, April 6 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).
In addition to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the ensemble cast for the third season includes Emmy® winner Tony Hale, Emmy® nominee Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw and Kevin Dunn.
Mike Judge (“Office Space,” “Beavis & Butt-head,” “King of the Hill”) brings his irreverent brand of humor to HBO in the new comedy series SILICON VALLEY. Partially inspired by Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, the show is a collaboration between Judge and Alec Berg (“Seinfeld,” HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”), and began its eight-episode first season Sunday, April 6 (10:00-10:30 p.m.).
Cast regulars for the first season include Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew and the late Christopher Evan Welch. Matt Ross guest stars.
Both shows have sparked critical raves, with TheDailyBeast.com calling VEEP a “whiz-bang brilliant political farce,” while Variety.com praised the show’s “fearless irreverence” and described it as “ruthlessly funny.” VanityFair.com hailed star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, observing, “Hers is the strongest comedic performance on television.” SILICON VALLEY was termed a “terrific new comedy” by Entertainment Weekly, which awarded the show an A-, and HollywoodReporter.com called it “flat-out brilliant” and “uncommonly insightful,” while the Washington Post described the show as “delicious” and “hilarious.”
Season three credits: VEEP was created by Armando Iannucci; executive producers, Armando Iannucci, Christopher Godsick and Frank Rich; co-executive producers, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche; producers, Stephanie Laing and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; supervising producers, Chris Addison, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Ian Martin and Will Smith.
Season one credits: SILICON VALLEY was created by Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky; executive producers, Mike Judge, Alec Berg, John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky, Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally; producer, Jim Kleverweis.
SILICON VALLEY FOR A SECOND SEASON
LOS ANGELES, April 21, 2014 – HBO has renewed the comedy series VEEP for a fourth season and SILICON VALLEY for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. The renewals follow the recent two-season renewal of “Game of Thrones.”
Created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar® nominee for co-writing “In the Loop”), VEEP stars Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, who becomes vice president, only to discover The Job is nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. The Emmy®-nominated and Writers Guild Award-winning series kicked off its ten-episode third season Sunday, April 6 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).
In addition to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the ensemble cast for the third season includes Emmy® winner Tony Hale, Emmy® nominee Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw and Kevin Dunn.
Mike Judge (“Office Space,” “Beavis & Butt-head,” “King of the Hill”) brings his irreverent brand of humor to HBO in the new comedy series SILICON VALLEY. Partially inspired by Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, the show is a collaboration between Judge and Alec Berg (“Seinfeld,” HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”), and began its eight-episode first season Sunday, April 6 (10:00-10:30 p.m.).
Cast regulars for the first season include Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew and the late Christopher Evan Welch. Matt Ross guest stars.
Both shows have sparked critical raves, with TheDailyBeast.com calling VEEP a “whiz-bang brilliant political farce,” while Variety.com praised the show’s “fearless irreverence” and described it as “ruthlessly funny.” VanityFair.com hailed star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, observing, “Hers is the strongest comedic performance on television.” SILICON VALLEY was termed a “terrific new comedy” by Entertainment Weekly, which awarded the show an A-, and HollywoodReporter.com called it “flat-out brilliant” and “uncommonly insightful,” while the Washington Post described the show as “delicious” and “hilarious.”
Season three credits: VEEP was created by Armando Iannucci; executive producers, Armando Iannucci, Christopher Godsick and Frank Rich; co-executive producers, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche; producers, Stephanie Laing and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; supervising producers, Chris Addison, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Ian Martin and Will Smith.
Season one credits: SILICON VALLEY was created by Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky; executive producers, Mike Judge, Alec Berg, John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky, Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally; producer, Jim Kleverweis.
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Yes! And I was watching Silicon Valley because nothing else was on before Veep, and it was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteGreat News, Veep has been great so far, could not stop laughing last night and Silicon Valley is growing on me so glad that is coming back for season 2.
ReplyDeleteI'm liking Silicon Valley so far and Veep is my favorite comedy so this is great news!
ReplyDeleteVery happy about this. Veep has been excellent like always and Silicon Valley is really growing on me.
ReplyDeletePhew happy for Veep, the ratings concerned me a little but then this season has had more acclaim than ever so that probably helped.
ReplyDeleteYes i love silicon valley glad its been renewed great show.
ReplyDeleteHBO will probaly just continue to renew the show as long as Armando Iannucci wants to keep on making the show.
ReplyDeleteGo Veep!
ReplyDeleteNot watching Silicon Valley but I'm very happy about Veep's renewal.
ReplyDeleteAwesome!! Veep is great and i really like Silicon Valley!
ReplyDeleteYay for Veep! So glad I caught up with the show. It's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteSome day I'm gonna start watching Veep, it looks like such a good show.
ReplyDeleteExtremely happy that Silicon Valley got a second season. It's been kinda under the radar with Game of Thrones returning but it's been chugging along quite nicely. It's absolutely hilarious and charming and manages to mix in some nice tech lingo to make everything seem realistic.
ReplyDeleteYes! I Love Both These Shows.
ReplyDeletevery happy for Veep- love that show... I tried watching SV, but just can't get into it, but happy for the fans of the show
ReplyDeleteNice, nice. Now I just need to watch Silicon Valley, haha.
ReplyDeleteSilicon Valley: I'm official in love with this show.
ReplyDeleteyay Veep!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI also love Silicon Valley!
May the HBO gods listen to you! Veep is, IMO, the best comedy to have sprung ever since 30 Rock. And who knows, maybe JLD will find Tina a part in one of the episodes. Or possibly an arc *---* she could play Palin LOL
ReplyDeleteSilicon Valley is a show that simply can't go wrong. The cast is great, the writing is good, the story is both interesting and depicts the tech corporate world the way everybody wants it to be depicted.Besides, HBO was very smart to put it after GoT, so it can get some attention from the Martin nerds, and before Veep, so those who like comedy will eventually bump into it.
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