Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Seinfeld gang returns to television for a show-within-a-show reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm (Oct. 4 at 9/8c, HBO).
When Larry David's on-screen wife (Cheryl Hines) leaves him, she notes that she loved him more when he worked on Seinfeld because it kept him busy. In order to win her back, he arranges an entire reunion. Oh, Larry and your hair-brained ideas.
Sweet fancy Moses! Seinfeld cast to reunite on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards are just a few of the Seinfeld alumni who'll drop by, so keep your eyes peeled.
See how the first of the reunion episodes unfold in the clips below. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at how it all came together.
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The cast of Seinfeld will reunite on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Read on to see how it all came together...
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Hamish Linklater and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Cheers to The New Adventures of Old Christine for proving it's every bit as good a sitcom as Seinfeld. Read, vote on and discuss this entire Cheer after the jump
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Molly Shannon and Tina Fey
In their oral history of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller revealed an unfortunate legacy of sexism. Many of the show's female writers and cast members, chief among them Nora Dunn, told of difficulty in getting skits on the air and of generally being taken seriously by their male counterparts. That was then… and now six prominent alumnae will back on the tube this fall in five successful returning shows and one promising newcomer. (Also, a series of six special all-politics Thursday episodes of SNL begin October 9 at 9:30 pm/ET on NBC.) In the meantime, let's check in with these smart, talented women.
After the jump, see who made our list of today's most successful female
Saturday Night Live veterans...
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Cheers to Julia Louis-Drefyus for proving she's not a sore loser. The New Adventures of Old Christine star, who lost the best comedy actress Emmy to Tina Fey, participated in an hysterical bit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in which she broke into the 30 Rocker's dressing room and stole the statuette. Fey suddenly showed up and told Louis-Dreyfus to keep the award, but demanded Conan return what he'd swiped: a pair of Tina's panties. As Elaine Benes might've said: Get out! Watch it here!
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Justin Bruening and Deanna Russo in Knight Rider by Mitchell Haaseth/NBC Photo
Here we are at "hump night" of the first week of the official TV season. Or, given that NBC is giving us a line-up of the atrocious Knight Rider, the dishonestly monikered America's Got Talent and the turgid Lipstick Jungle, maybe we should rechristen Wednesdays "lump night."
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Desperate Housewives by Andrew Eccles/ABC
Some Desperate Housewives and two Baby Mamas will take to the Emmy stage next month.ABC has announced the first wave of Emmy Award presenters, and they include the ladies of Wisteria Lane — Marcia Cross, Dana Delany, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria Parker and Nicollette Sheridan — who will all present together, and former Saturday Night Live chums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler."It's always fun to come up with unique pairings, cast reunions and surprising personalities as presenters on the Emmy show, and this year we’ve got a number of those, beginning with our first presenter announcement today," Ken Ehrlich, the show's executive producer, said. "And the good news is, we've got plenty more to come."Also set to grace the NOKIA Theatre stage are Hugh Laurie and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, both of whom are nominated, for House and The New Adventures of Old Christine, respectively.Fey and Poehler are up for statuettes as well. Fey can take home four trophies while Poehle...
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Jon Hamm courtesy AMC
If you heard someone momentarily flatlining in the audience at the reading of the Emmy nominations Thursday morning, that was me. They were announcing the best drama series candidates and I was mostly on board as I checked my list in the back of the TV Academy theater. Damages. Yay! House. OK. Boston Legal. I don’t approve, but I’m no longer surprised. Lost. OMG! Dexter. OM-Freaking-G! Wait. That’s five. Surely they didn’t leave out . . . And they didn’t. AMC’s dazzling Mad Men, the last to be announced, not only made the cut, it made history. With 16, it’s the most nominated drama of the year, and with FX’s Damages (seven nominations total), represents basic cable’s first-ever breakthrough into the top tier of Emmy accolades for best series. Mad Men also has to be seen as the odds-on favorite for best drama at this point.While we’re on this category—and let’s face it, this is the golden age of TV drama, so this really is t...
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Wanda Sykes and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in The New Adventures of Old Christine by Mitchell Haddad/Warner Bros. Television
ABC may exhibit questionable judgment when it comes to its own half-hour comedies (i.e., Caveman, Carpoolers, According to Jim, etc.), but the network sure has impeccable taste when it concerns its competitors' sitcoms. Case in point: On the heels of the Alphabet's (almost official) acquisition of NBC's brilliant-but-nearly canceled Scrubs, sources are telling me that the net is making a play for Julia Louis-Dreyfus' hilarious Seinfeld-curse-busting comeback vehicle, The New Adventures of Old Christine!According to several insiders, all of whom asked not to be identified because they would prefer to keep their jobs, execs at ABC have been engaged in informal talks with Warner Bros. Television about picking up Old Christine should CBS decide not to renew it. The third-year laffer, which earned its highest ratings of the season this week, remains very much on the bubble at CBS. Reps at ABC and Warner Bros. were unavailable for comment. I don't know about you guys, but the idea of an O...
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander by Monty Brinton/CBS
Jeers to The New Adventures of Old Christine for blowing a Seinfeld reunion. It was great to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander together again — but if you blinked, you could've missed it. The ex-costars had only two brief scenes together, at the beginning and end of the CBS sitcom's third-season finale. Couldn't they have written a better (or at least bigger) role for Alexander than Louis-Dreyfus' gynecologist? I hate to say it, but this bit of stunt-casting was much ado about nothing. • For more Cheers & Jeers, check out the new vodcast.• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine!
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