HBO renews Silicon Valley for a sixth season

Pied Piper will continue to try to make it big as Silicon Valley returns for another season.

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April 13, 2018 11:32 a.m. PT

Pied Piper is going to continue its turbulent ascent to tech industry stardom as HBO's Silicon Valley has been renewed for a sixth season.

We just keep coming back for more. #Season6 #SiliconValleyHBO pic.twitter.com/nn7unqfN9F
— Silicon Valley (@SiliconHBO) April 12, 2018

The show is currently in the middle of its fifth season, and its first without T.J. Miller, who played the original founder of the incubator, Erlich Bachman. In his absence, Jian Yang (Jimmy O. Yang), has become more of a central character, and was recently interviewed about it in CNET's San Francisco offices.

The announcement of another season comes as Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal is still dominating headlines. The show cleverly acknowledged the scandal with an Easter egg during the current season's opening credits, by showing the Facebook logo briefly switching to Russian as the camera swoops by.

During the Silicon Valley opening credits, the Facebook logo flipped from English to Russian. First-rate burn by one of the best series on TV. pic.twitter.com/zvh9ZPd3td
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 26, 2018