HBO’s award-winning series Silicon Valley, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of a group of quirky computer programmers, was renewed for a sixth season in 2018, but it’s not all good news for Pied Piper fans. Silicon Valley executive producers Alec Berg and Mike Judge said that the upcoming sixth season, which is expected to feature just seven episodes and premiere in 2020, will be the show’s last.
“Silicon Valley has been a career and life highlight for us. We’ll miss it desperately, but we’ve always let Pied Piper’s journey guide the way,” Berg and Judge said in an official statement. “At a certain point, there’s only so much we can do to make the world a better place.”
The news about Silicon Valley‘s cancellation follows a production delay credited to Berg’s other show, Barry, which, like Silicon Valley, is widely considered one of the very best shows on HBO. HBO wanted Berg to finish Barry‘s second season, which wrapped up on the same night as Game of Thrones, before returning to work on Silicon Valley.
Created by Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky, Silicon Valley follows a group of software engineers trying to make it big in the famed high-tech development region of California known as Silicon Valley. The series has detailed the group’s rise to fame in the tech community, and the subsequent ebbs and flows of their fortunes in the tumultuous tech scene. The series stars Thomas Middleditch, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, Amanda Crew, Josh Brener, Matt Ross, Suzanne Cryer, and Jimmy O. Yang. Original cast member T.J. Miller departed after the fourth season.
Since Silicon Valley premiered in April 2014, the show has been nominated for 35 Primetime Emmy Awards, and won two in 2015. The series has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, and received critical acclaim for all five seasons. Season 5 of the series premiered in March 2018.
Silicon Valley‘s end has been in the works for a while. “I can’t say we have [a specific end date] in mind, but we definitely, for the first time, are starting to talk about, ‘How long do you think this will continue … ?'” Berg told TVLine in an interview after the show’s season 4 finale, while Judge admitted that “six seasons seem to be the standard for something like this, which seems fine to me” while speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2017.
