Silicon Valley/Beta's - How Not To Run a Start-up

On Boing-Boing, there's a review of a series starting in the 'States called Silicon Valley, a comedy about a programmer who develops a new compression algorithm and, instead of selling out for gazzilions, takes some seed money and tries to run his own start-up. All very Microserf's:

However, this is not the first time programmers have been on the small screen in a comedy. A few months ago, Amazon created Beta's:

I'd normally just cringe and move on (they're not as good as The IT Crowd by the looks of things)

but the other day I expanded my Douglas Coupland collection with jPod and The Gum Thief. jPod was also made into a TV series, sadly unavailable.