Last week, producer Jon Hayman and one or two other comments online suggested that the upcoming twelfth season of Larry David’s HBO comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” might mark the show’s final run.
In a response this week, executive producer Jeff Schaffer tells Deadline that may not be the case. Rather the season is ending as many of the past seasons have ended – namely, it may or may not continue depending upon David.
Schaffer claims that “reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated” before adding that they just finished shooting last week. Whilst they are done for the moment with no thirteenth season planned for now, that hardly means it’s the end for ‘Curb’.
Schaffer says from experience, he’s done several seasons of the show, which were dubbed the final one at the time, only for it to come back:
“My first season was Season 5. And you know what the final episode of that season was called? ‘The End’. Not ironically. That was 15 years ago. So every season is the last season. It’s been this way forever.
Larry’s put all the ideas he likes into the season. He’s the only one who thinks he’s never gonna have another good idea. So, of course, he’s done for a while.
But you know, usually he goes out and has spirited encounters with the westside of Los Angeles and then ideas come. So we’re in the same spot we’re always in. It’s just business as usual.”
So the door isn’t closed on more seasons? Schaffer responded: “There’s not even a door”. The show’s twelfth season is now in the editing room for assembly. When it airs isn’t clear, but fans are hoping it’ll arrive before the year’s out.
