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Larry David has been on a hell of a press tour since revealing that Season 12 would be Curb Your Enthusiasm's last. He's beaten up Elmo on live television, nearly swore on the Today show (again) over a question about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, told a group of photographers to shut up and bristled…

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first two episodes of Dave Season 3. “Can Dave Burd find true love in a sea of Lil Dicky fans?” Dave co-creator Jeff Schaffer posed the question as he discussed the themes of the FXX series' third season, which debuted Wednesday. Over the past…

Don’t go sending Curb Your Enthusiasm to an early grave just yet. After producer Jon Hayman suggested last week that the HBO series might be coming to an end with its upcoming 12th season, executive producer Jeff Schaffer told Deadline that isn’t necessarily the case. “Reports of our demise have…

Dave co-creators Dave Burd and Jeff Schaffer joined actor and consultant GaTa on stage for a panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV event  Sunday at the Paramount Theatre. “The best shows are the ones that can travel the most ground in terms of what they can do,” Burd said. “Obviously, we’re a comedy and we try to make…

Larry David made his commercial debut in a Super Bowl ad for FTX Trading Limited. The comedian and creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is what the company calls an anti-sponsor, as David brings his own skepticism about crypto into the various characters he plays in the video above. The spot was directed by…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Brews Brothers, a new comedy series from brothers Greg Schaffer (That ’70s Show, Notes From the Underbelly, Lab Rats) and The League creator Jeff Schaffer, with Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black) and Mike Castle (House Guest, Clipped) set to star. Written by Greg Schaffer, Br…

On Friday night, The League creators Jeff Schaffer and Jackie Marcus Schaffer were joined by cast members Paul Scheer (Andre), Nick Kroll (Ruxin), Jason Mantzoukas (Rafi), Stephen Rannazzisi (Kevin) and Katie Aselton (Jenny) to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the FX cult comedy and reminisce about the show and…

We already know the premiere date for the seventh and final season of FXX’s The League, but how will the group vying for the coveted Shiva go out? Details were few and far between during today’s Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour panel, attended by series co-creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer along with…

How did the producers of FX’s comedy The League spent their recent hiatus? Praying that there will be a football season as their show revolves around a fantasy football league and working on a contingency plan in case the NFL and the players didn’t come to deal. "Plan B revolved around the guys losing their minds,"…

Paramount Pictures has released an early image of Sacha Baron Cohen as The Dictator, the comedy in which he plays the dual roles of a ruthless dictator who heads to the U.S. for a meeting at the United Nations and finds that his number two has replaced him with an unsuspecting sheepherder lookalike. As the…

FX has picked comedy series The League for a third season with a  13-episode order. In first-run, Season 2 of The League averaged 1.4 million total viewers and 1.1 million Adults 18-49, up +4% and +5% vs. season one, respectively.  "We love the show, and the reaction the cast received across the country during their…

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadine’s TCA coverage. Six episodes. Twenty days. That was the decidedly accelerated time frame of shooting last year on the FX fantasy football comedy The League, admitted co-creator Jeff Schaffer at a panel promoting the show’s second season premiere (it has 13 episodes this time) in…