One of my favorite new TV shows from last year was HBO’s Silicon Valley. Helmed by Mike Judge, the guy who brought us the cult hit Office Space, Beavis and Butthead, and Idiocracy, among others, the show takes an irreverent look at the lives of computer nerds trying to set up their first startup in, you guessed it, Silicon Valley. The first season ended all too soon, but now HBO has confirmed that Season 2 will premiere on April 12, 2015, immediately following the season premiere of HBO’s flagship, Game of Thrones. The blockbuster fantasy drama was renewed for two seasons last April. Capping it up will be the Julia-Louis Dreyfus political sitcom, Veep.
The next new HBO original scripted series to debut will be political comedy The Brink, exec produced by Jerry Weintraub, Roberto Benabib and Jay Roach and starring Jack Black, Tim Robbins and Pablo Schreiber. It will premiere in the summer.
Bessie, HBO Films’ biopic starring Queen Latifah as blues singer Bessie Smith, will debut in the spring. Also coming up on HBO is Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All, the network’s two-night, four-hour documentary directed by Alex Gibney, which will mark the 100th year since the iconic entertainer’s birth.
HBO sibling Cinemax has also firmed up its 2015 original lineup. Following Banshee, which returns for a third season tomorrow night, Strike Back will launch its fourth and final season in the summer, while breakout The Knick will kick off its second season in the fall.
