Silicon Valley renewed too

Armando Iannucci’s American political comedy Veep has been renewed for a fourth series.

HBO programming president Michael Lombardo announced the news yesterday – along with a second series for geek sitcom Silicon Valley.

Veep attracts around a million viewers a week to the premium cable channel, and has won several awards, including two Emmys for star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley, the newly launched sitcom from King Of The Hill creator Mike Judge based on his own experiences as a software engineer in the 1980s, has been attracting audiences of around two million to HBO. Sky Atlantic, which already airs Veep, has also bought Silicon Valley for UK audiences,.

The orders come after HBO renewed the US version of Getting On, based on the BBC Four series created by Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine.

However it decided not to make a second series of Family Tree, starring Chris O’Dowd, and Hello Ladies, starring Stephen Merchant. Although the latter will return for an hour-long special.

Published: 22 Apr 2014