Curb Your Enthusiasm fans, fret not: The sitcom’s next season will not be its last.
Producer Jon Hayman shared a since-deleted tweet last week that sparked rumors Season 12 will mark the end of the long-running comedy show. But executive producer Jeff Schaffer cleared up the rumors in a new interview with Deadline.
“Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We literally just finished shooting last week,” Schaffer said.
According to Schaffer, Larry David and the rest of the production crew go into each season of Curb Your Enthusiasm expecting it to be the last.
“My first season was Season 5. And you know what the final episode of that season was called? ‘The End.’ Not ironically,” he recalled. “That was 15 years ago. So every season is the last season. It’s been this way forever.”
He continued, “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.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm follows the everyday life of a dramatized version of David, the comedian and creator behind Seinfeld. The series — which stars a roster of comedians including Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, and J. B. Smoove — has become HBO’s longest-running show since it debuted in 2000.
Now it’s coming back with Season 12, which Schaffer described as “very, very fun.”
“It was some of the hardest I’ve ever laughed on set,” he said, later adding, “I think people are really, really gonna like it.”
The show has wrapped on filming and is now going into editing.
Hayman’s tweet appeared quite definitive about this being the last season, but it looks like we’re in the clear for now.
“Maybe you love the show. Maybe you hate the show. Maybe you don’t give a shit. In any event, shooting the last scene of the last episode of the final season,” he wrote in the since-deleted message. He also included a photo of David and other members of the production crew on set.
HBO has not commented on whether Season 12 will be its last. If it is, Curb Your Enthusiasm would be the third HBO show to end this year alongside Barry and Succession.
A release date for Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 has not been announced yet.