Bravo is branching out from its bread and butter programming starring giggling glamour girls and back-stabbers in high heels.
Among the list of upcoming series in development that the cable network announced yesterday, are two reality series targeted at the tech-savvy crowd.
“Silicon Valley” is the brainchild of Web entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg, of the Facebook Zuckerbergs. (She’s CEO/co-founder Mark’s older sister and the company’s former marketing director.)
The series will follow a handful of “young professionals” trying to make it big in the tech-heavy part of the San Francisco Bay area. Expect plenty of drama and over-the-top action — as one cast member notes in the “Valley” teaser reel, “Silicon Valley is high school, but it’s only the smart kids and everyone has a lot of money.”
A likely less glossy look at the Web world will be “Huh?” which centers around Ben Huh, founder and CEO of Seattle-based Cheezburger Inc., and the staffers at icanhascheezburger.com, focal point of the Internet humor “lolcats” — photos of cats with misspelled captions — a meme phenomenon. (Huh is also responsible for the immensely popular FAIL blog.)
Two scripted series are also in the works — “22 Birthdays,” about private school parents throwing lavish birthday parties, and “Blowing Sunshine,” set at a fictional private rehab center.