Fans of Larry David and his mega-fun, mega-uncomfortable HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm rejoiced this past week when it was revealed that the show will be returning to your cable boxes for a long, long, loooooooong awaited ninth season. And now, it looks like the wait for those episodes to actually exist won’t be much longer.
The Hollywood Reporter got a hold of Jeff Schaffer, David’s right-hand man on Curb as well as the co-creator of FX’s long-running fantasy football comedy, The League. Schaffer, who is fully on board for the next Curb season, had some very exciting news to pass along to the show’s loyal cult of viewers.
“It won’t be long. It won’t be long. Geologically speaking, it’ll be a blink of an eye,” Schaffer said regarding when the new Curb season will air. “Whether the next season of Curb came out one year later, three years later, five years later, 20 years later — detailing the petty behavior of the selfish and the self-serving is an evergreen business.”
Schaffer also noted that as far as the cast is concerned, “We’d love to have everyone back. And I think everyone wants to be back, so it should be business as usual.” Nice. It’ll be a treat to hear Susie Essman’s next stream of jagged, ear-splitting torrents of profanity and witness Jeff Garlin’s dubiousness at it all. Or especially Cheryl Hines’s nonchalance in the face of all that, as Schaffer put it, “petty behavior of the selfish and self-serving.”
The plan, per Schaffer, is for a typical, 10-episode season and that he and David are working on them. “We’ve gone from the theoretical to the practical, and that’s a big step.”
Will the next big step a release date? Stay tuned.
(via THR)