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Mike Judge & Alec Berg on Making 'Silicon Valley'

Mike Judge ( Beavis and Butt-head , King of the Hill , Office Space) returns to TV with his first live-action series, HBO’S Silicon Valley. He and collaborator Alec Berg (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld) talk with Kim Masters about reshooting the pilot and why there aren’t a lot of female characters of substance on the show.

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By Kim Masters • May 10, 2014 • 1 min read

Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, King of the Hill, Office Space) returns to TV with his first live-action series, HBO’S Silicon Valley. He and collaborator Alec Berg (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld) talk with Kim Masters about reshooting the pilot and why there aren’t a lot of female characters of substance on the show. Plus, the discuss the tragic loss of actor Christopher Evan Welch who played the Peter Gregory character. He died of a long bout with cancer in December.

SILICON VALLEY (from left to right): Zach Woods, Thomas Middleditch, Alec Berg, Mike Judge, T.J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani.

Photo Credit: Jaimie Trueblood/HBO

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    Kim Masters

    partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    John Horn

    Los Angeles Times

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    Darby Maloney

    Producer

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    Mike Judge

    writer, producer, director

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    Alec Berg

    writer, producer, director

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