Comments on: How much would NBC pay for ONE more episode of Seinfeld? Curb Your Enthusiasm spoilers

By: Really Tired

Really Tired — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:04:57 +0000

Cable Ratings: ‘Curb’ Finale Draws In 1.3 Million
HBO comedy posts best ratings in five seasons
By Stuart Levine – Daily Variety — Broadcasting & Cable, 11/24/2009 2:13:22 PM
Sunday’s finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” drew 1.3 million viewers, the most-watched season-ender of “Curb” in five seasons.

Last season’s final “Curb” telecast drew slightly more than 1 million viewers.

Combined with a repeat showing later Sunday, “Curb” — in which the “Seinfeld” gang gathered to put the final touches on their reunion — was seen by more than 2 million.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:18:38 +0000

Jeff/others. My post was mostly a jokey/slow-news Monday thing. I think real-life Larry really does abhor the idea of reunion shows. I’m sure even Larry David has a price where he might change his mind, but since he’s Larry David, that price is very, very, very high and probably a lot higher than NBC or anyone else would be willing to pay.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:14:14 +0000

I think the Seinfeld actors were a lot more entertaining when they played themselves and that’s what made the episode so great; and I would like to see them appear in future episodes of Curb as a opposed to a full reunion episode which I think would fail to meet expectations.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:34:19 +0000

Absolute perfection! It really should end this way — the SEINFELD REUNION, Larry getting Cheryl back. I don’t want to be selfish — and am really unsure how they could top it.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:11:25 +0000

Hope we get another season of Curb in 2 years.

By: Eric (Ohio)

Eric (Ohio) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:25:54 +0000

I loved the finale and think that it would be a perfect way to end the SERIES of Curb.

Having said that, I’d love to see another season.

I read somewhere about this that they brought back a lot of the behind the scenes people from Seinfeld to work on this. When they had the round table read of the script, a lot of the original writers were at the table and i think all the set/prop people around the studio were from the original series. They made it a ‘true reunion’. Whoever the guy was helping Jerry & Larry cast the part of George’s Ex was probably their original casting guy.

By: Really Tired

Really Tired — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:45 +0000

Funny. Funny. Funny.

The whole season of Curb!! Starting with Larry breaking up with his girlfriend because her cancer treatments intefere with his gof game! Cringeworthy! In typical Larry David form. The ‘Short Top’ episode was fine, despite the above post. The murder of the swan in the country club was hysterical. And of course, Seinfeld. We got another (mini) Seinfeld episode. And it was great. Add Mocha Joe to the long list of Seinfeld characters. Uh, Curb characters. Uh, same thing.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:34:17 +0000

Big Boss, HBO will let David continue as long as he wants to. I heard that he wants to do another season, but who knows if he still does.

By: Big Boss

Big Boss — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:28:16 +0000

Does anyone know if that was Curb’s SERIES finale? I know David says every year that he isn’t coming back, but ending with the Seinfeld reunion, as much as I hate to say it, is a perfect time and way to end this series.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:17 +0000

CBS has the Super Bowl this year.

I don’t know if existing syndication arrangements would preclude a broadcast network from licensing repeats to air in primetime, but it will never happen unless NBC decides to become a “programming service” or whatever MNT is now dubbed.

I’m not as sure as you are the reruns would average more than 5 million – though I am not sure they wouldn’t!

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/18/syndicated-ratings-top-25-two-and-a-half-men-judge-judy-and-oprah/33892

By: aznfratboy

aznfratboy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:31:44 +0000

How much would it cost for NBC to rerun Friends Seinfeld and Fraiser reruns on Thursdays again? Hell I’m sure they’d all get more than 5m viewers.

By: usedtolovecoco

usedtolovecoco — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:37:37 +0000

Does NBC have the Superbowl this year? They could pair it with that and maybe convince advertisers that the ads would be worth almost as much.

By: Schmoker

Schmoker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:51:25 +0000

I know NBC is desperate, but what good would one half hour television do for them? Even if it drew the biggest rating in history, which it wouldn’t, but even if it did, so what? Is 8 minutes of ad time really going to be a big deal for them? No repeat value these days, really, and you can’t use it to launch another show or anything, because one night of lead in doesn’t really do much for anyone–not that lead-ins really matter a great deal anymore.

I don’t know, Bob. Kind of a weird question, but I think they would just pay whatever the going rate is for a half hour of television that would produce some big ratings, and nothing more. Maybe 3-4 million, I guess. Tops.

Heck, for that matter, how big would the rating really be? Long time since Seinfeld. Could it even draw the double digit demo it would need to be worth that dollar figure?

By: TR

TR — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:18:30 +0000

The only stinker this year was the one with the assistant who wore the short tops and had her fat showing. That was maybe the worst episode of Curb ever. The entire rest of this season was all time great, so I’m happy to give them one missed note.

I hope Larry brings it back for another year, he’s still producing genius. I’m happy to get 10 episodes every 2 years or so, or however long he wants to take to figure them out.

By: Kermonk

Kermonk — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:16:38 +0000

I would pay nothing – in fact if you expect me to watch it *I* want to be paid.

By: ryaneco

ryaneco — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:03:23 +0000

I loved the finale of Season 4 when Larry was in The Producers and we basically got a show of The Producers in the episode that was great! I was hoping the Seinfeld reunion would be much similar.

I’m a MASSIVE Curb Fan and a MASSIVE Seinfeld fan so I would be very happy if they did shoot a full episode and prehaps released it as a special feature on the Seventh Season DVD set.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:15:46 +0000

Do we know for sure that they didn’t shoot a full episode and kept it under wraps for a surprise? It would be a great Christmas present!

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:51:55 +0000

That’s exactly what I was thinking. They could have easily produced an entire 23 minute episode, used it for Curb and then sold it to NBC. Who knows, maybe it will be an extra on the DVD.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:50:08 +0000

Terrific show — they’ve all still got ‘it’ — I could go for more, more, more.

By: romo

romo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:40:48 +0000

$3,299,999.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:35:55 +0000

First airing (9:02p) of last week’s Curb averaged 1.257 million viewers. I expect we will see last night’s numbers sometime today.

By: timmy

timmy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:31:52 +0000

Can you find out what the ratings were for the last 2 episodes of curbed??

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:27:20 +0000

I think it was like the fourth episode of the season, its always possible there were extenuating circumstances that didn’t have anything to do with the show itself…

By: Vinny

Vinny — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:23:06 +0000

the finale was great yesturday and rob what was the episode that u didn’t care for