HBO’s Veep & Silicon Valley Get New Seasons

LOS ANGELES: The recently premiered HBO comedy Silicon Valley has been renewed for a second season, while the network’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus vehicle Veep got the go-ahead for a fourth season.

Silicon Valley, from Mike Judge and Alec Berg, began its eight-episode freshman run on April 6. The show is partially inspired by Judge’s experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ’80s. Judge and Berg exec produce, along with John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, Michael Rotenberg and Tom Lassally.

Veep, created by Armando Iannucci, stars Louis-Dreyfus as the vice president, who discovers the job is nothing like what she expected. The series’ ten-episode third season also kicked off April 6. Iannucci serves as exec producer with Christopher Godsick and Frank Rick. Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche co-exec produce.