October 23, 2008
It's been almost a year since we were last treated with an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO's one-hour mockumentary that stars Seinfeld creator Larry David. Network president Michael Lombardo has previously hinted that he has every intention of producing a seventh season despite his reluctance to make any promises, but there hasn't been any production update about show until now.
On the other hand, fans will be pleased to know that Curb Your Enthusiasm will be back in production in December, according to Variety. A source close to the series reveals that the 10-episode season 7 is expected to return next year, though a premiere date or an executive producer lineup hasn't been established yet.
October 8, 2008
In case you haven't heard, 10-time Grammy Award-winning rapper Kanye West has been in talks to do a TV show similar to the HBO hit Curb Your Enthusiasm for the same cable network, with Borat director Larry Charles as the frontrunner. Recently, however, it seems that the network has curbed its enthusiasm about it.
In an interview with ComingSoon.net, Charles hinted that the improvised show has been shelved, even though a pilot has already been shot.
September 18, 2008
I love TV comedy. For me, there's nothing better. Good comedy is always, always hard to come by. It's forever hit and miss, the bad comedy consistently overwhelming the good comedy. The success rate for a comedy of any kind is abysmally low. More fail than succeed. This is nowhere more apparent than on television. But, even so, today's crop TV comedy is very, very good. The Best Comedy category of the Emmys is, as a result, quite hard to predict this year. The nominees are diverse, both in tone and quality – Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, 30 Rock, Entourage and Two and a Half Men. One of these shows will take home a cute little statue this Sunday. Let's take a gander at who the favorites might be.
September 18, 2008
Susie Essman, best known for her role as Susie Greene, wife of Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm, has finally wed real-estate broker Jim Harder, her boyfriend of five years. According to The New York Times, the wedding took place on Saturday at the Friars Club in Manhattan. The ceremony was officiated by Tom Fontana, a writer and producer whose credits include HBO's Oz and who is also a minister of the American Fellowship Church.
The couple first met in New York during Thanksgiving weekend of 2003. Harder was visiting his brother Michael, an interior decorator who is a friend of the Curb star. Despite their connection, Mike never bothered to introduce Essman and Harder since he didn't think that they would hit it off. Aside from the fact that Harder lived 150 miles from New York, he was also divorced with four kids. That weekend, however, Harder joined his brother and Essman on a shopping spree and Essman saw something in Harder that she had not found in Hollywood.
September 11, 2008
Cheryl Hines, best known for her role as Cheryl David, Larry David's wife on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, has just been cast on ABC's newly acquired series, In the Motherhood, which is based on the online series of the same name. The show follows the adventures of three moms, originally played by Chelsea Handler, Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy, whose exploits are based on real-life stories of moms across the country.
However, not all three actresses will make the transition from web to the TV series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, only Handler is expected to continue on the ABC series. On the other hand, Hines and Will & Grace's Megan Mullally have signed on to take over for McCarthy and Remini.
August 29, 2008
These Emmy voters. Who are they? Considering the process they must go through to watch the nominated episodes for Best Comedy and Best Drama, you'd think they were locked in a closet for eleven and a half months out of the year. The system seems overly complicated: to get your show up for initial consideration, you send the Emmy voters one episode of your series. When the field is then pared down to the final nominees (as they are now), each series provides six episodes (or, six hours for dramas, six half-hours for comedies) to the voters. First, however, the academy places those six episodes on three separate tapes. The tapes are then randomly distributed to the Emmy voters, all of whom receive two of the three tapes. This means, of course, that not every Emmy voter is seeing the same episodes. Perhaps this makes sense to some people (probably the same people who were responsible for nominating Two and a Half Men for Best Comedy). Anyways, the fine folks at Gold Derby recently got a hold of the specific episode lists that each Best Comedy series sent out to voters. You will find those lists below, along with some commentary.