Foxtel has secured the rights to broadcast the eagerly awaited ninth season of Larry David's beloved, Emmy-winning HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, and fans won't even have to wait (well, any longer than they already have) for it to screen Down Under.
Airing same-day express from the US, Curb Your Enthusiasm will return to The Comedy Channel from 8pm on Monday 2 October (continuing at 9.30pm Mondays from episode two), as well as being made available on the cable platform's recently launched Foxtel Now service.
In case you've somehow missed the first eight years of the series — or just want to re-experience it all — The Comedy Channel will be running a marathon of all 80 episodes to date from 6am on Saturday 30 September, so you'll be nice and delirious by the time Monday's premiere rolls around.
The ninth season of the show is the first new material from the Curb crew in over five years; although the series started in 2000, there was no season produced in 2003, and it was released biannually between 2005 and 2011 before going on indefinite (now definite) hiatus. Even discounting the break, it stands as HBO's longest-running scripted current series (in sheer number of episodes) and remains one of its most decorated comedies.
"We’re thrilled HBO and Larry David are back together again for this long-awaited ninth season [of] Curb Your Enthusiasm," Foxtel Networks' director of channels, Stephen Baldwin, said in a statement.
"The show has a huge fan base and The Comedy Channel is pleased to have this series exclusively and on the same day as the US premiere."
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