HBO took the stage at the
Television Critics Association press tour in the US on Thursday and announced some fairly exciting news.
The announcement garnering the most amount of press is that
there's apparently going to be a Seinfeld reunion. Larry David had long
insisted such a thing would never happen, but then he decided it might
be "funny" (read: lucrative) to do it on the new season of
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Apparently Jerry Seinfeld will appear in five episodes
throughout the season, and Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and
Michael Richards will also appear in four to five episodes each, though
not necessarily all together. Said David:
We'll see writing, see aspects of the read-through,
parts of rehearsal, see the show being filmed, and see it on TV. You
won't see the entire show. You'll see parts of the show. You'll get an
idea of what happened [to the Seinfeld characters] 11 years later. Within the show, it will be incorporated into regular Curb episodes.
HBO also officially announced they they
renewed three shows:
Hung,
Entourage and
True Blood.
The third and final announcement of note was that the
network has ordered an animated comedy series from The Office creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Apparently the series will be based on the duo's podcasts with Karl Pilkington.
That is all. As you were.
Source: BuzzSugar