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Uploaded: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 10:45 AM
Crews to film 'Silicon Valley' TV show in Palo Alto
'Beavis and Butt-head,' 'Office Space' creator Mike Judge will be in town for pilot of HBO series
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by Eric Van Susteren
Palo Alto Online Staff
A film crew will be in downtown Palo Alto to film an HBO television show pilot today (Tuesday), according to the city.
Thomas Fehrenbach, economic development manager for the city, said HBO will be filming "Untitled Silicon Valley Project," at several sites around the city tomorrow and that the director will be Mike Judge.
According to numerous television news websites, HBO recently green-lit the pilot episode of "Silicon Valley," which is being directed by Judge, creator of "Office Space," "King of the Hill" and "Beavis and Butt-head."
The show is a comedy set in the high-tech business environment of Silicon Valley.
The filming will have a significant impact on traffic at University Avenue between Waverley and Webster streetsfrom 4 to 8 p.m.
Police spokesman Lt. Zach Perron said traffic will be closed for a few minutes at a time while the film crews follow cars in the show.
While downtown businesses will be open and detours will be in place, Perron said it's best for evening commuters to find alternate routes.
Very brief "roving" road closures will also occur in the morning and early afternoon, but Perron said he doesn't expect they will have as significant an impact on traffic.
There will be closures on El Camino Real between Embarcadero Road and Page Mill Road from 9 a.m. to noon, on Page Mill Road between Peter Coutts Road and El Camino Real from 9 a.m. to noon and on East Charleston Road between Middlefield Road and Alma Street from 2 to 3 p.m.
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Posted by Max Hauser, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood, on Mar 12, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Max Hauser is a member (registered user) of Mountain View Online ' ...directed by Judge, creator of ... "Beavis and Butt-head." '
I guess we can always hope for the best. Though history affords limited encouragement that pop culture will get many details right around the concept of "Silicon Valley," some of whose own local officials demonstrate unawareness of what the phrase fundamentally means, where it arose, who coined it, or (in its original, most-accurate meaning) its industry's unambiguous origin with Shockley Semiconductor (on San Antonio near the Mountain View - Palo Alto border). The first time I saw the phrase spill out of the electronics industry into a mainstream national magazine (in the late 1970s), the magazine located "Silicon Valley" in southern California.
Related local history in a COMMENT I posted to a related May 2012 MV-Voice story:
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Posted by Bogaigh, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood, on Mar 12, 2013 at 5:04 pm I can't think of anyone better than Mike Judge to produce a show on Silicon Valley! Go see Office Space if you doubt me. It is a very accurate (and hilarious) portrayal of life in Silcon Valley in the late 1990s.
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