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SPOILER WARNING: This article reveals details from the series finale for HBO’s Silicon Valley Silicon Valley finished its sixth and final season on HBO on Sunday night with a swan song episode for Pied Piper. Created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky, the Emmy-nominated Silicon Valley is a subversive…

Silicon Valley co-creator Mike Judge has signed a two-year overall deal with HBO, which includes series production commitments for two new comedy series. Judge’s deal includes all forms of television, excluding animation. Under the pact, the two new comedies are Qualityland, based on the novel of the same name by…

Cinemax will officially kick off its rebrand as a destination for fun, mostly action-packed, original programming February 2 with the return of the series that started the network's foray into originals six and a half years ago, Strike Back. It will be followed by thriller Rellik; crime drama C.B. Strike, based on J.K…

A 1997 Emmy winner for animated series King of the Hill, Silicon Valley co-creator Mike Judge has been a fixture at the Emmys since the HBO series’ first season, always a bridesmaid but never a bride, despite continued critical praise and a major fan base for the show. Taking it all in stride while in the writers room…

Fox successfully brought back one canceled animated series, Family Guy, which has become an anchor of the network’s Sunday comedy block. Now the network is looking to do the same for another one, King of The Hill. Created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels who would go on to do Silicon Valley and The Office, King Of the Hi…

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley co-creator Mike Judge is returning to his animated roots with Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus, which has been picked up by HBO sister network Cinemax with an eight-episode series order. The half-hour animated comedy series is currently in production for premiere later this…

Heh-heh heh, cool. Mike Judge, creator of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head, will receive the WGA West Animation Writers Caucus' 2016 Animation Writing Lifetime Achievement Award. "We’re very excited for Mike Judge to receive this long-overdue honor," said WGA West VP David A. Goodman. "His contributions to…

The riotous T.J. Miller was a no-show at HBO’s Silicon Valley Comic-Con panel this afternoon — he was busy shooting Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One. No problem. Comic-Con exec Laura Jones lauded Silicon Valley co-creator Mike Judge with a career achievement award for his work in film and TV, and Miller not…

Working as a production designer for over two decades—on such series as HBO's Hung and United States of Tara, and more recently on John Ridley's American Crime and Black Hole—Richard Toyon just received his second Emmy nomination for his work on Silicon Valley (and third overall). As on all his projects, Toyon starts…

Nominated for an Emmy for his work on Silicon Valley‘s Season 2 finale, "Two Days of the Condor,” editor Brian Merken is thankful for the almost-missed opportunity to be working on HBO's acclaimed series. "Quite honestly, it was the last possible hour that they would consider bringing me on that I became available,"…

Now that HBO's tech-startup comedy Silicon Valley just finished its second season and has been renewed for a third, its star Thomas Middleditch jokes that he'd like to see his entrepreneur character go through a big transformation sometime soon. "Skip ahead, and it's almost like a Breaking Bad story," says the actor…

Vinith Misra has spent an unusual amount of time thinking about hand-jobs. One of the tech industry's brightest sparks, he's currently a researcher at IBM's Watson Group, focused on information theory and data compression, and greasing the wheels of information flow. But he moonlights, too, for HBO, consulting on the…