Silicon Valley (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Silicon Valley |
| Original title | Silicon Valley |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2014-2019 |
| Production company |
HBO Entertainment , 3 Arts Entertainment |
| length | 28-30 minutes |
| Episodes | 53 in 6 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Comedy |
| Theme music | Stretch Your Face - Tobacco |
| idea |
Mike Judge , John Altschuler , Dave Krinsky |
| production | Jim Kleverweis |
| music | Jeff Cardoni |
| First broadcast | April 6, 2014 (USA) on HBO |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 12, 2014 on Sky Atlantic HD |
Silicon Valley was an American comedy series by Mike Judge , which was broadcast on the US cable broadcaster HBO since April 6, 2014 and on the German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Atlantic since November 12, 2014 .
On April 12, 2018, HBO announced that it would produce a sixth season of the series. It will also be the final season. It premiered from October 27th to December 8th in the USA and from December 10th to 31st, 2019 in Germany.
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season 1
Richard works as a software developer in Silicon Valley for the company Hooli. In his spare time he wrote a revolutionary compression algorithm that his boss Gavin Belson plans to buy from him for $ 10 million. However, Richard decides on an offer from investor Peter Gregory who, instead of millions of dollars, offers him to found his own start-up. After some initial difficulties, he and his roommates founded the company "Pied Piper". Since Pied Piper is registered with TechCrunch Disrupt , the team is under severe time pressure to develop the application. Meanwhile, Hooli is working on Nucleus, a copy of Pied Piper's compression algorithm. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Gavin Belson will finally present Nucleus, the development of which is already much further advanced than that of Pied Piper. But Richard comes up with a way to dramatically improve the Pied Piper algorithm and so they emerge victorious from the event.
season 2
After winning the TechCrunch Disrupt, Pied Piper's team tries to find funding, which is thwarted by various interference by Hooli. The billionaire Russ Hannemann then financed the Series A, but later sold these shares to Laurie Bream, the new head of Peter Gregory's investment company Raviga. With a majority on the board, Laurie removes Richard as CEO of Pied Piper, who then leaves the company to pursue his idea of creating a new Internet. His successor will be Dinesh, who built the video chat app PiperChat on the basis of the Pied Piper algorithm, and who achieved an increasingly growing user base. However, this is mainly a minor, which is why Dinesh is giving the company away to Hooli under pressure from Gavin Belson. Pied Piper then developed an app that compresses the data on the user's mobile phone, which in return makes half of the memory available to the network. Pied Piper sells this storage space to a pornography company, whose data is lost. Meanwhile, Hooli is taking legal action against Pied Piper because Richard is said to have developed his algorithm on a service computer. With the help of a shady lawyer, Richard wins the lawsuit because of invalid clauses in Hooli's employment contracts.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbed version is being produced by EuroSync GmbH in Berlin under the direction of Wanja Gerick , who wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue together with Rainer Martens in the first season. He's been doing this with Bianca Krahl since the second season .
Hannes Maurer , who lent the character Nelson Bighetti his voice in the first season, had to give up the role because he was abroad during the dubbing for the second season. The character has been voiced by Dirk Petrick since then .
Main cast
| role | actor | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Hendriks | Thomas Middleditch | 1.01–6.07 | Vanya Gerick | |
| The "brilliant" main developer and head of the company at Pied Piper . Initially an employee of Hooli . | ||||
| Erlich Bachmann | TJ Miller | 1.01-4.10 | Tommy Morgenstern | |
| Operator of the "Incubator" ( English : start-up center ), in which Richard is working on Pied Piper . Erlich founded the Incubator after selling his own start-up Aviato . He owns a ten percent stake in Pied Piper (as well as all of his incubator's projects). | ||||
| Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti | Josh Brener | 1.01–1.08, 2.01–6.02, 6.06–6.07 |
Hannes Maurer (episode 1–8) Dirk Petrick (from episode 11) |
|
| Richard's best friend. Due to lack of talent, he soon leaves Pied Piper . Bighetti works for Hooli and provides Richard with information from the company. | ||||
| Bertram Gilfoyle | Martin Starr | 1.01–6.07 | Markus Pfeiffer | |
| A Canadian native who has joined the Pied Piper team. Gilfoyle is a satanist. | ||||
| Dinesh Chugtai | Kumail Nanjiani | 1.01–6.07 | Nico Mamone | |
| A Pakistani Java developer who is part of the Pied Piper team. He is in constant, mostly friendly rivalry with Gilfoyle. | ||||
| Peter Gregory | Christopher Evan Welch | 1.01–1.05 | 1.06 (voice only) | Karlo Hackenberger |
| The first investor in Pied Piper . Gregory is characterized on the one hand by introversion and on the other hand by a (sometimes hurtful) direct way of speaking. The character dies at the beginning of the second season. | ||||
| Monica Hall | Amanda crew | 1.01–6.07 | Sonja Spuhl | |
| Peter Gregory's assistant, who tries again and again to make up for the mystery of her boss with charm. | ||||
| Donald "Jared" Dunn | Zach Woods | 1.01–6.07 | Marius Clarén | |
| Initially at Hooli as an assistant to Gavin, later responsible for business affairs at Pied Piper . Dunn is often in a position to be ignored because of his "ghost-like appearance". | ||||
| Gavin Belson | Matt Ross | 2.01-6.07 | 1.01–1.08 | Peter Flechtner |
| CEO and founder of Hooli . He's the rival of Pied Piper . | ||||
| Jian-Yang | Jimmy O. Yang | 2.01-6.07 | 1.03-1.04, 1.07 | Julian Tennstedt |
| Tenant of Erlich's “Incubator”, but has no stake in Pied Piper . Jian-Yang and Erlich often have different differences of opinion. | ||||
| Laurie Bream | Suzanne Cryer | 2.01-6.07 | Marina Krogull | |
| The intelligent but socially incompetent successor to Peter Gregory. She later founds Bream Hall Capital with Monica . | ||||
| Russ Hanneman | Chris Diamantopoulos | 4.01, 4.06, 6.04-6.07 | 2.03-2.10, 3.08, 5.07 | Michael Deffert |
| A brazen billionaire who supplies Pied Piper with his Serie A. | ||||
| Jack Barker | Stephen Tobolowsky | 4.01-4.10 | 3.01-3.04, 3.08-3.10 | Roland Hemmo |
| Short-term CEO of Pied Piper , later of Hooli . | ||||
Charisma
In the US, the series has been broadcast on the US broadcaster HBO since April 6th . The first season consists of eight episodes. Due to the good audience numbers, a second was ordered during the broadcast of the first season. On May 25, 2017, HBO extended the series for a fifth season, which aired from March 25 to May 13, 2018.
The German premiere took over the Pay TV transmitter Sky Atlantic .
Awards and nominations
Critics' Choice Television Award
- 2014 : Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series for Silicon Valley
- 2014: Nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Thomas Middleditch
- 2014: Nomination in the category Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Christopher Evan Welch (posthumously)
- 2014: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series
- 2014: Nomination in the category Best Director for a Comedy Series - "Prototype" episode for Mike Judge
- 2014: Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Episode “Presentation” for Alec Berg
- 2014: Nomination in the title design category - Garson Yu and Mehmet Kizilay
- 2014: Nomination in the Outstanding Art Direction category for a contemporary program
- 2015: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series
- 2015: Nomination in the category Best Director for a Comedy Series - "Financing" episode for Mike Judge
- 2015: Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Episode “Server Utilization” for Alec Berg
- 2015: Award in the Outstanding Art Direction category for a contemporary program
- 2015: Nomination in the sound editing category - for Ben Patrick, Elmo Ponsdomenech and Todd Beckett
- 2015: Award in the category of excellent single camera image processing for a comedy series - episode “Server Utilization” for Brian Merken
- 2015: Nomination in the category of outstanding single camera image processing for a comedy series - episode “Crowdfunding” for Tim Roche
- 2016: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series
- 2016: Nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Thomas Middleditch
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Director for a Comedy Series - Episode “Server Fehler” for Mike Judge
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Director for a Comedy Series - “Intellectual Property” episode for Jaime Babbit
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Episode “Graduation Process” for Alec Berg
- 2017: Nomination in the category Outstanding Casting for a comedy series
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Camera - episode “Final Procedure” for Tim Suhrstedt
- 2017: Nomination in the category Best Production Design
- 2017: Nomination in the single camera image processing category for a comedy series - episode “Server Fehler” for Brian Merken
- 2017: Nomination in the single camera image processing category for a comedy series - episode “Closing Process” for Tim Roche
- 2018: Nomination in the category Best Comedy Series
- 2018: Nomination in the category Best Director for a Comedy Series - Episode "Crypto Currency" for Mike Judge
- 2018: Nomination in the category Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Episode "51 Percent" for Alec Berg
Web links
- Silicon Valley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of HBO
- Silicon Valley at TheFutonCritic.com
- Silicon Valley on TV.com
- Silicon Valley at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Judge's Silicon Valley to premiere April 6 on HBO January 9, 2014, accessed January 20, 2014
- ↑ Silicon Valley: Season Six; HBO Comedy Series Renewed . April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Silicon Valley (US): Episodenguide. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
- ↑ German synchronous index | Series | Silicon Valley. Accessed June 1, 2019. https://www.synchronkartei.de/serie/29039 .
- ↑ Quintet Cast In HBO Pilot 'Silicon Valley' , February 8, 1013, accessed January 20, 2014
- ↑ Mike Judge's new HBO series, 'Silicon Valley,' gets its first trailer , February 24, 2014, accessed April 13, 2014
- ↑ Silicon Valley. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Joe Otterson: TJ Miller to Exit 'Silicon Valley' Ahead of Season 5 . In: Variety . May 25, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
- ↑ HBO's 'Silicon Valley' sitcom: A first impression , January 9, 2014, accessed January 20, 2014
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Silicon Valley has earned a second season on HBO . In: Serienjunkies.de . April 22, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
- ↑ 'Veep' & 'Silicon Valley' Renewed By HBO . In: Deadline , May 25, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.