Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9: First returning guest stars announced

The acclaimed HBO comedy series is returning to screens next year

In case you'd forgotten, let us refresh you" HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm will be returning to television screens in 2017 for a ninth season.

With main cast members Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman and Cheryl Hines all set to return, only now have the first returning guest stars been announced: Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen.

The married couple made sporadic appearances over the course of Curb's eight seasons - their first credit arriving in dedicated episode 'Ted and Mary' - and are just two of the series' many recurring cameos which also included Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Wanda Sykes.

Larry David announced the show's return back in June, stating: “In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, ‘I left, I did nothing, I returned'."

Danson is currently starring in The Good Place, a comedy series from the creators of Parks and Recreation while Steenbergen can be seen in FOX series The Last Man on Earth.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is expected to return late 2017.