I am a big fan of the Sunday night HBO shows, I always have been.  From The Sopranos to Six Feet Under, from Sex In The City to Deadwood, HBO has always been a part of my Sunday evening. With True Blood and Entourage just wrapping up another season HBO now has new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm followed by a quirky little comedy/drama called Bored To Death.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is on at 9pm, followed by Bored To Death at 9:30pm.  For those that don’t know Curb is kind of done in a reality show format and are preplanned stories by Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld.  It is one of my favorite shows and in its seventh season.  Bored to Death is a new show that focuses around a character who is going through some life changes and decides to try to become a private eye.  Curb takes place in California while Bored To Death is in New York City.

The strange thing about watching these two shows is that Ted Danson is on both of them.  On Curb he plays himself and is friends with Larry David.  On Bored To Death he plays a womanizing, pot smoking, and partying editor of a magazine.  I don’t think I ever remember on any network or cable channel an actor or actress that has done this.  To me it is like when Seinfeld was on and Jerry was on his own show as himself.  If he then acted on another show playing a character directly after it on the same network, wouldn’t this seem strange?  Out of all of the actors in Hollywood why would someone cast an actor that is on the show immediately preceding it?

Ted discusses sandwiches on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Ted tries to take care of a problem on Bored to Death.