A pair of HBO’s 30-minute original comedy series have officially been given new seasons.

Silicon Valley, the new series from Office Space director and Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill creator Mike Judge, has been given a second season order. The show follows a group of programmers trying to make it big in Silicon Valley, and is partially inspired by Judge’s own experiences working there as an engineer in the ’80s.

This week, the heart of internet security is bleeding, stock traders game the system, a Twitter to destabilize Cuba, Game of Thrones pushes piracy to a new high, and are we at 3D printing’s tipping point? All this and more…

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HBO’s Game of Thrones is more popular than ever, as it should be.

The numbers are in for the season four premiere of the show last night, and they’re big. The initial 9 p.m. broadcast scored 6.6 million viewers, up 2.2 million from the show’s season three premiere of 4.4 million.

Not only was this the most watched episode of Thrones so far, but it was also the second-most-watched episode of any HBO show, coming in right behind the 2007 series finale of The Sopranos, which landed 11.9 million viewers.

In case you missed it, HBO released a trailer a couple of days back for Silicon Valley, the new show from Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill creator and Office Space and Idiocracy director Mike Judge.

The show is set during the high-tech gold rush of Silicon Valley, and stars Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Christopher Evan Welch, and Amanda Crew.

Click on over to the other side to read a lengthier description and to watch the trailer.

HBO is solidifying their upcoming schedule, with the announcement of various start dates for both returning and new shows.

Of the many shows they’ve set dates for, the big one is of course season four of Game of Thrones. We’ve all known that it would premiere sometime in late March or early April. This is now confirmed with word that the fourth season will indeed begin on Sunday, April 6th at 9 p.m. EST.