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Web-enabled film and TV network EPIX has signed Emmy award-winning comedy writer Larry Charles to make an original, single-camera, half-hour comedy series called iCON. The series will take place in and poke fun at the Silicon Valley tech culture. Dan Lyons will also write for the series.

Dan Lyons is the author of the satirical blog “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” so he seems a strong match for the Silicon Valley satire genre. Larry Charles is best known as a writer for Seinfeld, Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He describes iCON as “nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane” (way to manage expectations!). The show will air on all of EPIX’s distribution channels — the cable TV channel, the streaming video site and the video-on-demand service. Judging from the title of the show and Dan Lyons’s background, it’s easy to guess what this new series will be about. Stay tuned — there’s been no announcement about iCON’s premiere date, but we’ll report it when we hear it.

Tags: cable, curb your enthusiasm, dan lyons, entourage, Epix, icon, larry charles, Seinfeld, television, the secret diary of steve jobs, tv, web series

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