HBO has announced
that it has renewed two of their best comedies for further seasons. The network
has confirmed that Mike Judge's tech comedy Silicon Valley will be getting a
third season, and that Armando Iannucci's political comedy Veep is set for a
fifth one.
LOS ANGELES, April
13, 2015 – HBO has renewed the comedy series VEEP for a fifth season and
SILICON VALLEY for a third season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo,
president, HBO Programming.
“VEEP and SILICON
VALLEY are terrific series, and I’m immensely proud that they will return to
HBO next year,” noted Lombardo. “Along with ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver,’ both of which have already been renewed for 2016,
they give HBO a stellar Sunday night like no other.”
Created by Armando
Iannucci, VEEP stars Emmy® and Screen Actors Guild
Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus as new President Selina Meyer, for whom even
the most banal action can have unexpected and far-reaching consequences. The
Emmy®-nominated series kicked off its ten-episode fourth
season Sunday, April 12 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).
In addition to Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, the ensemble cast for the fourth season includes Emmy® winner Tony Hale, Emmy® nominee Anna Chlumsky,
Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy Simons, Sufe Bradshaw, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole
and Sam Richardson.
The Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-nominated series
SILICON VALLEY takes a comic look at the modern-day epicenter of the high-tech
gold rush, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of
handling success. A collaboration between Mike Judge and Alec Berg, the show
returned for its ten-episode second season Sunday, April 12 (10:00-10:30 p.m.
ET/PT).
Cast regulars for the
second season include Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Josh Brener, Martin
Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, Amanda Crew, Matt Ross, Suzanne Cryer and
Jimmy O. Yang.
Season four credits:
VEEP was created by Armando Iannucci; executive produced by Armando Iannucci,
Christopher Godsick, Frank Rich, Chris Addison, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Stephanie Laing.
Season two 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; co-executive producers, Dan
O’Keefe and Clay Tarver; supervising producers, Sonny Lee and Ron Weiner;
producers, Carrie Kemper and Jim Kleverweis.
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