Wednesday, November 09, 2005
 Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO has viewers who are running (not walking) away from the show, according to Eonline.
This past Sunday only 1.2 million HBO subscribers tuned in and since the departure of "Sex and the City" lead in "the show has struggled to put up numbers substantially bigger than that of (recently canceled) Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback."
HBO has renewed Rome, which brings in more viewers than Curb, and Extras, which doesn't. That british humor must translate well to bosses at that network.
According to eonline: "Curb was the weakest ratings link in a powerhouse lineup that included Sex and the City and The Sopranos. Now, it's more a symptom, than a leading cause, of HBO's overall sagging Sunday fortunes. Last month, Daily Variety reported that the pay cable network's viewership levels were down 58 percent on that night from 2004."
Consensus among the media says that something is not quite right in Larry David's neighborhood.
"Has anyone else been noticing how lousy the new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm are?" Adam Buckman asked in the New York Post on Oct. 10.
Last week, Variety's Brian Lowry noted the show "has lurched out of the starting gate, sinking to its nadir with an episode in which the son of a Japanese kamikaze pilot (he survived; get it?) attempts suicide in response to Larry's insensitivity."
Even on the sports zone, columnist Pete McEntegart wondered aloud Tuesday if "Larry David is running out of ideas" and cited a few instances of old Seinfeld gags being recycled on the green-friendly Curb. (David co-created Seinfeld.)
DARK DAYS AHEAD: For the first time in six years, HBO will go months without new episodes of an original prime-time series says USA Today. Instead, it will air repeats of The Sopranos and Deadwood from December to March 2006.
HBO had slotted Big Love - a new comedic drama that stars Bill Paxton as a polygamist with three wives - in January, but it reversed course and probably will hold back that series until summer.
HBO's slogan used to be: "its not tv" uh, that might need a rewrite to something like "we need some new tv ideas" (and fast).
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