Update: Larry David Says New Season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is Unlikely

[JamesG]

Will "Curb Your Enthusiasm" Return? "I Really Don't Know," Larry David Says
July 25, 2013
by Kate Stanhope


It's been two years since new episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" last graced our television sets, but creator and star Larry David seems in no rush to make a decision about whether the comedy will be back at all, much less start work on a new season.

"That's not such a good question," David told reporters at Thursday's Television Critics Association's fall TV previews when asked about a possible ninth season. "I have not decided. I don't know. I really don't know. I couldn't say. Ask me in six months."



So what's the holdup for?

"I'm just an indecisive fellow. You should see me at a restaurants," David said. "It's a big decision to decide to do a season of that show. I don't take it lightly."







Thankfully for David fans, the writer-actor has kept busy in his downtime. David wrote and stars in HBO's new TV movie, Clear History, which premieres on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 9/8c. David said he decided to do the film while contemplating "Curb's" future.

"I was thinking about Curb or thinking about doing a movie and I thought, you know, perhaps it's time I try something else so I decided to do the movie," he said.

"I was thinking of either doing one or the other. I just thought it was time to try something else."




In the film, which also stars Jon Hamm, Bill Hader, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, Amy Ryan, Michael Keaton and Eva Mendes, David plays a former marketing executive at a start-up electric car company who surrendered his shares and quit the company after a fight with his boss.

Ten years later, the company is hugely successful, and Nathan (David) decides to get revenge against his old boss (Hamm).







Clear History is David's first feature film script since 1998's Sour Grapes, which he also directed.

"This was more like a Curb experience in that we were improvising it and I didn't have to worry about directing and I could just act," David said. "So on the set it was more fun."



The creative process, David says, was very similar to that on "Curb".

"This was entirely improvised," director Greg Mottola said. "There's a 35-page treatment with all of the scenes but none of the dialogue."



Although several members of the movie's ensemble don't have improv backgrounds like David and much of the "Curb" cast, he only had praise for his co-stars.

"Everybody in the movie just took to it so easily," David said. "No buyer's remorse."







However, fans of "Curb" will recognize one familiar face. Despite David's original intentions not to allow for any overlap, J.B. Smoove was one of the first to sign on.

"J.B. and Larry together is pure gold," Mottola said. "What kept me up at night was the worry that movie was either going to be too much like Curb or not enough like Curb. There's no right answer."





With "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" future still unknown, will Clear History lead to more film projects? David is just as ambivalent.

"We'll see how this goes," David said. "I could do a film every six or seven or eight years."



Clear History premieres on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 9/8c.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Curb-You...n-1068284.aspx

[jimbo51]

I hope that isn't true After the way tvland Screwed him If it comes back I will get HBO again

[mets82]

Curb is really a good show. I was wondering if it was coming back myself. It might not come back because Jeff Garlin is on The Goldbergs and Cheryl Hines is on Subergatory.

[Schmoopie]

Interesting, b/c I thought that he had ended it and that they had a finale.

[TMC]

http://t.co/XTfbQgTD9w

On stage, David says he’ll be playing "somebody very similar to Larry David – it might even be Larry David with a different name.” As for “Curb,” David says he hasn’t ruled out another season. “But I’m not going to mentally do that to myself right now,” he said of making a decision about the cable series. “But if I did do another season, this play would push that schedule back.”

[TMC]

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prosp...infeld-finale/

Larry David tells Bill Simmons that he hasn’t given up on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but he says the “Seinfeld” finale "taught me a lesson that if I ever did another show, I wasn’t going to wrap it up.” When asked that it sounded like he wasn’t doing another season, David responded: "I guess the odds would be against it. I guess, right now, the odds would be against it, probably 6 to 1.” David also thinks too much time has passed since the last season. “Sometimes,” he says, "you’ve seen reunion shows on television and the actors look so much older than how you remember them in the show. And even though you can see that actor doing something else, once you put them back into that same environment with those other people, and they’ve all aged so much. It looks wrong. It seems wrong. Why are they doing this?” Still, David says he’s not ready to definitively end the series. “I’m still not prepared to say that I’m no doing it again, nor am I prepared to say that I am. So I don’t know,” he says.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#Cjc2G3t2PYJVLeIa.99

[JamesG]

Larry David Says New "Curb" Season Very Unlikely (And You Can Blame the "Seinfeld" Finale)
by James Hibberd
Dec 16, 2014


Another reason to dislike the "Seinfeld" finale: Fans’ reaction to the closing episode of NBC’s iconic sitcom isn’t helping the odds of HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" ever coming back.

Creator and star Larry David was asked by Grantland about the possibility of "Curb" ever seeing a ninth season. David has often seemed pessimistic about the acclaimed and popular show returning, but he sounds even more against the prospect than usual.

“I guess, right now, the odds would be against it, probably 6 to 1,” said David, who is prepping his new upcoming Broadway comedy show, Fish in the Dark.





Interviewer Bill Simmons floated the idea of a 90-minute "Curb" special to “wrap things up,” but the "Seinfeld" co-creator shot back:

“Well, you know, I got so much grief from the Seinfeld finale, which a lot of people intensely disliked, that I no longer feel a need to wrap things up … I wouldn’t say I’m mad about the reaction, but it taught me a lesson that if I ever did another show, I wasn’t going to wrap it up … I think the thing about finales is everybody writes their own finale in their head.”





"Curb" scored some of its highest ratings in its final year and occupies a very unique production space in the TV landscape: It’s a comedy series that’s been off the air since 2011, yet the show is not “canceled” (and perhaps never will be).

HBO executives have long maintained they are ready to do another season of "Curb" whenever David is ready to come back. David, in turn, never seems eager about the prospect, yet never shuts it down completely, either.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/12/16/larry-david-curb/