HBO has two new Mike Judge shows in the works, including one delving into "a**holes"

TVLine

The Silicon Valley co-creator has signed a new two-year deal that includes HBO giving production commitments to two new shows: A5 and QualityLand. A5, which Judge co-created with Etan Cohen, follows a bioengineer who discovers the gene that makes a person an a**hole. The show will try to answer the following questions: "Why do a**holes exist? Why have they come to dominate our culture? And can they be cured?" QualityLand, meanwhile, is based on author Marc-Uwe Kling's novel of the same name. Set in the near future, QualityLand is described as being about “everything we have now, and more so,” “the story of humanity’s struggle against the tyranny of convenience. But funny.”