Curb Your Enthusiasm fanatics are about to be prettay … prettay unhappy.
The longstanding comedy collection will formally finish with its twelfth season, which is about to premiere on February 4, 2024, on HBO and Max. The overall season, marking the top of HBO’s longest-running comedy collection, will encompass 10 episodes on Sundays at 10 p.m., main as much as the collection finale on April 7.
Larry David, who serves because the celebrity, author, publisher and government manufacturer of the display, made the announcement on Thursday, December 14.
“As Curb comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be — the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character,” David, 76, stated in a observation. “And so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.”
The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning display premiered with an hour-long particular on October 17, 1999. The primary 8 seasons of the collection aired from 2000 to 2011. Curb then took a six-year hiatus, sooner than returning for a 9th season in 2017, a 10th season in 2020, and an 11th season in 2021.
The community describes the display as a “comedy series that continues to prove how seemingly trivial details of one’s day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events.”
David served because the co-creator, publisher and manufacturer of Seinfeld. In Curb Your Enthusiasm, his personality, a fictionalized model of himself, is definitely referred to as the co-creator and major co-writer of the long-lasting sitcom which starred Jerry Seinfeld. The collection follows David’s lifestyles as he's semi-retired and taking part in the fortune he earned from the Seinfeld collection.
“It’s hard to say farewell to such a ground-breaking, brilliantly funny and iconic series like Curb Your Enthusiasm, which has left its mark across television and the comedy genre,” Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO & Max Content material, stated in a observation Thursday. “Working alongside Larry David and [executive producer] Jeff Schaffer as well as all of the comedic masterminds that comprise our producers, cast and crew has been a joy that I will always treasure.”
After season 11 premiered in 2021, it used to be now not recognized if the display would proceed. When requested on The Wealthy Eisen Display in October 2021 whether or not Curb Your Enthusiasm would go back for a 12th season, David couldn’t give a undeniable resolution.
“Oh god, Rich. Don’t do this to me now. It’s too soon,” he stated. “It’s way too soon. I need to see how I feel, you know. It’s a huge mountain to climb to—first of all—to write it, to shoot it, to edit. It’s about 18 months from beginning to end. So it’s a big obligation.”
Government manufacturer Jeff Schaffer informed The Hollywood Reporter in August 2022 that every season is at all times the final — till David determined whether or not he sought after to proceed the display. He famous that another finishing to season 11 used to be even shot with a David loss of life scene, on the other hand, it by no means made it to air.
“[Larry] said, ‘I’m not ready to die,’” Schaffer informed THR.
For the general season, David will probably be joined as soon as once more through collection regulars Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman, J.B. Smoove, Richard Lewis and Ted Danson. Vince Vaughn and Tracey Ullman can even sign up for the forged for season 12.