HBO Gets More "Enthusiasm"
It's official: Larry David--the TV version--is back from the dead.
After months of speculation that his HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm had flatlined after a season finale titled "The End" that featured its star spending some not quite quality time with his guardian angel in heaven, the pay-cable network confirmed Wednesday that it had reached a deal with David for another season of the Emmy-winning series.
An HBO spokeswoman says the balding, bespectacled comic will start filming the first of 10 new episodes in October. The new season is aiming for a 2007 run, but no firm airdate has been set.
Critics and fans alike believed season five's death-defying finale, in which Larry donates his kidney to save pal Richard Lewis with near disastrous results, was actually a series finale. Indeed, after the show aired Dec. 4, Curb's future was up in the air as David mulled whether he had enough juice left for another go-round.
But the outlook brightened last month, when HBO's CEO and chairman, Chris Albrecht, told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour that the cable net was close to reaching an agreement with the David and executive producer Robert Weide.
"The reason we don't know about Curb is Larry was very unsure after the last season. He felt like the last season could have been the final season," the HBO honcho explained. "And Larry works very hard on these shows. So...he needed to be inspired."
Regular cast members Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin and Susie Essman are expected to be back. And Curb fans will be delighted to hear that HBO and David haven't ruled out additional seasons, depending on the outcome of season six.
Curb is looking to rebound in the ratings after its audience dropped off dramatically once lead-in Sex and the City went off the air in 2004. Meanwhile, several TV critics labeled season five the show's weakest.
"Has anyone else been noticing how lousy the new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm are?" Adam Buckman asked in the New York Post. Variety's Brian Lowry said the season "lurched out of the starting gate, sinking to its nadir with an episode in which the son of a Japanese kamikaze pilot (he survived; get it?) attempts suicide in response to Larry's insensitivity."
Nonetheless, the series, which won a Golden Globe in 2003 for Best TV Comedy, is up for five Emmy Awards this month, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Actor for David and Outstanding Supporting Actress for Hines.
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