Nine is playing episode 3 of the seventh series of Curb Your Enthusiasm next Tuesday night, billing it as The Seinfeld Reunion (Curb Your Enthusiasm).
The episode sees all four cast members of the legendary sitcom playing themselves as they agree to a series revival.
Seinfeld has previously commented, “Doing it with Larry and on his show just seemed like the only possible way it would be fun…” he says. “We would never do the type of thing that these shows usually do. That wouldn’t be our style. But something like this — that was sillier and a little more offbeat — felt like it might be right for us.”
In the US the cast have appeared in just one episode of the current series despite earlier reports they would appear in five.
Nine’s enthusiasm at the reunion has risen above its desire to play the series sequentially. The sixth series is currently in a first run on GO!
It airs at 9pm Tuesday October 20 on Nine.
Since Seinfeld signed off a decade ago, the cast has resisted every attempt to do a reunion show, until Larry realises it could help him win back his partner. With the network on his side Larry must convince Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer to reprise their roles. Stars Larry David, guest stars Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards.
Pretty – pretty – stupid Channel 9 – No wonder you’ve lost all credibility.
@Jen – Channel 9 deserves you. Atypically moronic.
@Daniel is obviously the current teaboy trying to brown nose his way up the chain. No one is buying that baloney.
Nobody would watch Curb Your Enthusiasm without the Seinfeld cast. Thanks for filtering out the boring stuff for us.
I have never watched ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ before, but the episode works very well on it’s
own. I had no problem following the characters and I thank you once again for showing this
episode. The blurb in the beginning of the show explaining who Larry David is , was very
clever. Please show this again with swearing censored/bleeped out so family Seinfeld
audiences can watch it too. Thanks again.
Brilliant idea!
Thank you channel 9 from all the Seinfeld fans. It’s a great idea to get more
ratings too.
I wish the swearing was censored though so the family could watch it, as Seinfeld was a family show.
This is particularly good for the Seinfeld fans who only want to see the reunion without having to filter through the rest of the Series.
Thank you channel 9 !
Possibly the stupidest and most cynical programming move in the history of television. If I were Larry I’d sue 9 for something or other. Bunch of Schmohawks.
The only reason Nine is doing this is in the vain hope some viewers with turn from NCIS or the Rafters… If Nine had not mess with this show so much I might have got into it. Might just get the DVDs one day.
@itsross They may well trick a few viewers into watching but I don’t think decieving people is the smartest way to build viewer loyalty.
Their disdain for the general public is going to bite them in the arse.
obsessed with this show… lame idea!
Curb, more than any other program, relies on the viewer having watched all previous episodes to get a lot of the jokes. It rewards you for your loyalty. You can’t come in half way through a season and show one episode and expect people to get it.
I’m luving this season so far & there all classic in my eyes…
The last eps when Larry snaps @ sammy is pure classic…
& Channel9 are stupid as always airing the season from E3 is dumb.
this is a pretty dumb idea.
what Nine Should have done was fast-track the season from ep 1 and continue right through to ep 10. then once GO! have finished with season 6, re-air season 7 on GO!
Shonky promo.
Casual Seinfeld fans (i.e. those who haven’t seen Curb, because I’m sure most, if not all serious Seinfeld fans would watch Curb religiously) will have no idea what’s going on.
Channel 9 used to show this show at 2am and don’t deserve any kudos for showing one episode out of the middle of the 7th season. Replacing it with 2.5 Men the week after says it all, really.
@ Jack!. i think your comments about cye and the office is crap! both shows are very good comedies. why else have they won awards…
@theuglybaby I’m sure whoever came up with this idea will be getting shouted a round of beers tonight! Only nine would have the balls to do this, and they will no doubt trick lots of people into watching it..then a few will stay around to watch Ladette.
Anyone else notice the commercial advertising this show goes from poor quality video where the CYE ep is being shown in the commercial, to normal high quality when they are showing clips from a real Seinfeld episode?
What I’m getting at is, it appears they cut this commercial using a bit torrented version of the show (where a HD version hasn’t been uploaded to a pubic tracker yet). Just my guess it what’s going on.
Obviously they will show the full res version on Tuesday, but it seems they haven’t received that show yet!
I guess the episode will be edited for censoring. Larry drops the f-bomb in the first 15 seconds of that episode and there are a couple of scenes showing nude photographs too.
So I guess Nine will only be showing episodes that feature the Seinfeld cast. From what I have read on Wikipedia that will episodes 3, 6, 8 & 9. How the hell is anyone meant to know what is going on.
Exactly, Dan. It’s just the first episode of a series-long arc, not a one-off episode.
Peter said it best.
Whoever came up with this idea should be fired immediately. They have no idea for what people want.
Just watched it, this in no way was a Reunion Show. Enjoy.
Why is anyone surprised. I gave up on nine with this show a while ago. I bought season 6 of CYE off Amazon last year (a whole year before it came out on dvd in australia) and will probably get season 7 on Amazon again. nine literally buried this show at 1 am in the morning for years and then stopped showing season 5 half way through and then stopped and didnt play the rest for ages. Its similar to what ten has done with the US Office. Meanwhile over at 7, 30 rock is regularly shuffled around at 11.30 pm at night. Both US Office and 30 Rock have won multiple emmys. Do the australian networks think that aussies have a real unsophisticated sense of humour.
What a stupid programming decision that is! Nine has had an appaling history with Curb and this is insulting to the uninitiated viewer, the diehard fans, and the program makers. Curb your enthusiasm is a carefully plotted and woven series. Larry David only writes 10 a year! This is just a grab for some ratings joy as the year slips away and Channel 7 runs away with the prize. This is why!
I agree with Faystar, this is the weakest ep so far for season 7, but will rate well because of the whole “Seinfeld reunion” hype. The ploy here is to promote the GO channel.
If 9 want controversy they should air S07E02 “Vehicular Fellatio”, which to me is the best of the season so far..
@ Jack!
What shows do you like? Especially comedy?
Why hate on comedy like Curb and Office UK so much?
Curb is niche viewing it’s either one or nothing, nobody would watch the first 2 eps without Seinfeld cast. I’m happy with 1 and will watch the remainder on GO! in full.
I’m going to throw up … can’t think of anything more revolting … except maybe yet another version of CSI or all that kind of cop and medical dramas … oh yes I can, any episode of the Office or other stuff by Ricky G … !
Jack!
Typically dopey idea from CH9.
I’ve seen the episode and to be honest, it’s the weakest of the 4 already aired. Still fun though.
I could find so many slots on the current CH9 schedule to play Curb. I’m sure we all could.
Alright, David. Thanks for clearing that up.
But knowing 9 and the Australian audience – the ratings might plummet before they get the chance to see the cast reunite on episode 3. So in that regard it might be smart to begin with the first Seinfeld ep.
Ben the week after its back to 2.5 Men repeats on Nine. Clearly given we’re also picking up at S7E3 it’s not exactly a commitment to airing S7.
Bad move. Half way through NCIS/PTTR.
Am I missing the part where it is stated that this is the only episode playing?
“In the US the cast have appeared in just one episode of the current series despite earlier reports they would appear in five.”
And there have only been 4 episodes aired..
Is it strange 7 and 9 don’t cross-promote the schedules of their 2nd channels?
I remember 10 used to advertise at the start of a program, what was on the other channel.
To me, I’ve only noticed GO advertised in print.
RE: Seinfeld – Its pretty silly screening this one ep when there’s every chance the cast appear more in the later episodes. Fastracking would make sense to detract downloaders, only 9 would be expecting to attract the larger general seinfeld crowd.
It’d be best to screen the whole series. (If ratings were good, I’d presume they’d show the other seinfeld eps, however there’s every chance they are weeks apart ?!)
Idiots! No wonder people download shows!
This is just pathetic, why is it they don’t give a damn about a show until something like this happens? Sorry but I doubt it will rate above the normal Tuesday line-up, but wait 3 eps back-to-back that means the Seinfeld one is not until after 10pm.
@ Steve, its not so awesome if you have no idea of the story lines; this episode is 3 episodes in to the 7th season with other storylines and motivations surrounding the episode, plus its just the set up, it makes absolutely no sense to play this one episode.
Oh Nine, when will you learn? Everyone knows Curb isn’t your typical comedy show where episode are self-contained. Quite the opposite, Curb has series long plots that are brought up every episode…
I’m glad they’re showing it, but it should be shown in order!
Playing 1 episode out of sequence for a ratings scoop? Crap!
LOL nine are loving there reunion specials atm
Keeping in mind only 4 episodes of season 7 have aired…
Considering old eps are being played on go. How is anyone going to understand the stry line??
this is going to be an awesome episode.
If all goes well, perhaps Curb can keep that timeslot.
What the hell?
Don’t get me wrong, im glad that nine are bothering to show this, but i would have much rather seen it from the start.
Can’t wait!!! This should be great!!! Thanks Nine…we love you!!
So they’re just going to show one episode? Episode 3 of a 10-episode season? This is why people are down on C9.
Yoo-hoo!
Well, I guess if you are going to sit on an amazing series until a killer episode comes along, then Season 7, Episode 3, “The Reunion”, would be the episode to show…
Nice going Nine (serious) for showing the episode, nice going Nine (sarcasm) for sitting on this series for so many years…