HBO will not be foisting Larry David on any other network, as it announced yesterday that it will be bringing back Curb Your Enthusiasm for a 10th season.
The announcement comes in a surprisingly painless fashion, and much quicker than Curb Your Enthusiasm is accustomed to. Larry David tends to like to make the people wait. The gap between season 8 and season 9 was six full years. This time around, however, the Curb crew is getting right back to work after early December’s season 9 finale, with production starting as soon as a few months from now.
“As I’ve said many times, when one has the opportunity to annoy someone, one should do so,” David said in a statement
Season 9 started off a bit roughly, but eventually reached creative highs thanks to its ongoing Fatwa! musical plotline and a two-episode guest appearance from Lin-Manuel Miranda.
If the show is able to continually attract guest stars of that caliber and keep up with modern trends just enough so that a cranky David may find the annoyances in them, there’s certainly no reason to stop now. Season 9 ended with the kind of tongue-in-cheek cliffhanger that the show rarely follows up on so while it’s funny to imagine Larry running away from the Ayatollah for eternity, there are still many more exasperated adventures to be found in sunny L.A.
“We are thrilled that Larry will be back with his uniquely acerbic wit and comedic sensibility,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys said in a statement.
From the sound of things, HBO should be excited as it has an engaged and enthused Larry David to contend with. Executive producer Jeff Schaffer caught up with Entertainment Weekly after the announcement and revealed that David is fresh and ready to go.
“The truth is, Larry had so much fun last season that he wants to do it again,” he said. “Usually, at the end of a shoot, he’s absolutely sure he’s never doing it again. But this season was different, during our last days of shooting he was already thinking about reloading.”
Reload away, Larry. Someone has got to teach us all hotel cookie and buffet etiquette.