Is ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Ending After Season 12?

The odds that Curb Your Enthusiasm’s next season might be its last are pretty good. As filming on the upcoming 12th installment wraps, multiple social media posts hint that the end is near.

Viewers were tipped off to this news in a fairly casual manner—namely, a pair of tweets.  “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,” Curb writer producer Jon Hayman wrote Tuesday, in a since-deleted tweet that has been reviewed by Vanity Fair. An accompanying photo shows David and Heyman standing behind a monitor on set. 

Curb executive producer and director Robert B. Weide also seemingly confirmed this news, tweeting: “1st day: March, 1998. Last day(?): March 27, 2023. These 25 years have flown by. Thank you, #LarryDavid. What a trip.” (VF has reached out to HBO reps for comment.)

The show, which was renewed for a 12th season last August, stars David as an exaggerated, overtly tongue-in-cheek version of himself alongside Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, J.B. Smoove, Cheryl Hines, Richard Lewis, Vince Vaughn, and Ted Danson. An official premiere date for the new season has yet to be announced.

So maybe Curb, like its HBO brethren Barry and Succession, plans to hang up its spurs soon. But then again, the series is prone to taking lengthy hiatuses; Curb could be simply, well, curbed for a period before making its triumphant return in the future. 

Since the show first premiered on HBO in October 2000, it’s aired eleven seasons in fits and starts. It previously took its longest break between season 8, which aired in 2011, and season 9, which aired in 2017. Why did David return in the first place? “I do not know. I just wanted to do it again. A lot of people kept asking me . . . I thought, yes, I suppose I should do this,” David said at the time. He added, “Yeah, I did, I missed it . . . ’cause nothing else really gives me as much satisfaction as doing this.”

Either way, David has filmed his character’s death scene, should the need arise.