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UPDATED: Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurtwitz dropped another bombshell today, telling a panel at The New Yorker Festival that he plans to bring the Emmy-winning series back to television for a limited 9-10 episode run before proceeding with the long-gestating Arrested Development movie. He didn’t specify where the potential series would air as it doesn’t necessarily have to run on Fox, which carried the mothership series. I hear that 20th Century Fox TV, which co-produced Arrested Development with Imagine TV, has had talks with Netflix, which has been on the hunt for original programming, and Showtime, whose new entertainment president David Nevins shepherded Arrested Development when he ran Imagine TV and served as an executive producer on the cult series. 20th TV declined comment.
According to attendees at the panel, where Hurwitz was joined by series stars Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Tony Hale, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross, Alia Shawkat and Jessica Walter, Hurwitz laid out his plan to have each installment focus on a different member of the Bluth clan. Bateman later weighed in on the announcement on Twitter. “It’s true,” he wrote. “We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early ’13. VERY excited!” That would mean launching the follow-up limited series on the 10th anniversary of the original, which premiered in 2003 and ran on Fox for 3 seasons.
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I dunno. It had crappy ratings the first time, so why do people want to continue to make more of it? Didn’t they learn anything from Firefly?
Large ratings do not always equal quality.
Because it’s genius, that’s why.
The show has picked up a lot of fans through Hulu, DVD’s, Netflix and constantly being on IFC.
If they don’t overspend, I guess…
It has fabulous reviews… won several Emmys…. the public can be pretty stupid..
And if you’re bringing up Firefly, didn’t the bring it back as a movie (Serenity) because of the overwhelming demand?
I think this is great news!
If you form your taste based on awards and think awards are a direct barometer of quality, you’re stupid. Your comment is stupid. The show did poorly because it was tedious much like its handful of fans.
Not as tedious as you, my dear!
Loved the show but I don’t ever have to revisit it…
Hurwitz should concentrate on new stuff… leave the sequels to George Lucas.
So did Family Guy, but it was brought back after the DVD sales were through the roof. In this case, a whole new set of fans have discovered the show on Hulu and Netflix since it’s original airing. It was never a show that really fit on a broadcast network. It was too serialized and too smart for its own good. Would have been a far better fit on cable, where its numbers would have been pretty respectable.
It’s somewhat obvious Futurama has a tighter budget on cable than on broadcast.
Sure, crappy ratings for a primetime network series, but not for a Showtime or Netflix series.
Also, in the years since the series went off the air, it’s become legendary.The show has amassed a huge fanbase in the last 5 years.People will show up.
who knows how big the fanbase really is… a failed show like AD can hardly count on people to show up when the masses voted and said it was bad.
Scott Pilgrim was a movie that everyone thought was going to be a huge blockbuster with a ready made fanbase from the video game culture.
Luckily, Netflix and Showtime only care about gaining subscribers and this is a small experiment at 10 episodes.
the public didn’t say it was bad. the problem was that it was serialized and you had to watch it from the beginning to get all the jokes.
There are all sorts of serialized shows that people actually tune into.
I don’t think the general audience “got” the humor at all. It’s a niche show and doesn’t cater to everyone. Sometimes that works on television and sometimes it doesn’t.
It has a pretty large fan base, largely cultivated after the show went off the air. College kids especially.
This show is pure genius. Wasn’t Fox exec Gail Berman the one who dumped Family Guy the first time around AND Arrested Development?
You’re an idiot.
The ratings aren’t at all accurate – any person even remotely familiar with statistics will tell you there is FARRR too large a margin of error to give any weight to the ratings system – let alone to use them to decide the fate of niche market comedy genuis. Because it has a niche audience, the nielson ratings are even more likely to be completely and totally wrong. What we need to change is not the show, but the ratings system itself, creating a system which accurately measures audience and allows niche market shows to harness the power of their audience.
Ratings haven’t meant a damn thing for what constitutes quality TV in a long time, brother. The show is of the absolute highest caliber for comedy programming, and was simply too smart to be appreciated by a mass audience, and Fox screwed the pooch in its promotion and scheduling. Also it’s ongoing narrative structure made jumping right in a challenge to newcomers. But so many more people learned about this show after its cancellation that I really think they’re underestimating the demand for it’s rebirth.
I just blue myself.
And thats why… you dont lose faith in Mitch Hurwitz!
Even after Sit Down, Shut Up?
Showtime seems logical, didn’t they offer Hurwitz a two year deal for Arrested Development after Fox so stupidly cancelled it?
You might be thinking of “Sports Night.” I still haven’t forgiven Aaron Sorkin for turning down that offer.
It happened with AD as well as Sports Night. Honestly, Sorkin is much easier to forgive than Hurwitz for turning it down. Sorkin had West Wing to work on also, and also had his first kid born. He just didn’t have time to keep doing it. Hurwitz basically said that he turned down the offer because he wanted to go out on a high note.
That being said, I don’t think either show would have done well on Showtime. The majority of the audience for both skewed pretty young, and I don’t think would have been able to follow them to premium channels.
I’ve made a huge mistake.
New AD episodes and AD movie….COME ON!
One of the best TV shows ever made….and a pity more people did not watch in the original run. I guess those non-watchers have their Jersey Ho’s and Knocking Up The Kardashians to watch. Would rather watch Carl Weathers sampling stew than Bruce Jenner’s stepdaughters spew
AD probably wouldn’t have lasted a full season in the current DVR age. Glad to see it’s coming back to life.
Community (which is pretty similar) has lasted 3 years and 70+ episodes and is an inferior show with none of the acting talents that Arrested Development had.
If anything it could have lasted longer because of the lower ratings expectations and FOX’s ineptitude with live action comedies.
Community has better know cast members in 2009 than AD in 2003.
Community has the NBC marketing machine behind it and three years in a cushy Thursday 8 PM time slot. AD had zero promotion, was given awkward November premieres or was pulled off the air entirely for baseball playoffs, had its time slot moved numerous times and its episode order cut mid-season more than once. A good portion of its five million viewers would have DVR’d it if they could have, and Fox never would have supported a show with 3-4 million.
Why run down Community? It’s a very funny show, if you’re smart enough to get it. It’s not as though Arrested Development is not on the air because of Community. They’re both hilarious shows.
Can you explain those Community2013.com ads with the monkey from [i]The Hangover Part II[/i]?
I was waiting for something from you guys to get even more excited. Nobody had mentioned this Netflix/Showtime thing. At least it’s another detail.
Of course, the excitement ends today and will resume on the day a trailer or pictures from the set get out, meaning I’ll believe it when I see it.
Similar to ACTION, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT was developed originally with HBO or another cable outlet in mind. Then Fox stepped in and picked up each series. And gave them so many constraints that they both failed (ACTION is shorter fashion).
Back on cable, this is the proper way to wind thing up.
Although, unlike Action, I would argue that part of what made AD so good was the way it handled those restraints. The episode Notapussy being a prime example.
But your point is well taken…it would have lived many more years on cable.
Fanboy: “So what do you say now that Arrested Development has returned (seven years after being cancelled) to killer ratings and even more critical acclaim than it had during its initial run?”
Fox Executive: “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
Oooh! Great news! Cannot. Wait.
this announcement will probably lead to a lot of hop-ons.
well…you’re gonna get hop-ons.
Arrested Development transcends ratings, IF ya haven’t noticed its following and audience loyalty. This time around people would shoot the ratings through the roof.
I guess it would be more fun than lighting money on fire. I guess.
There’s always money in the banana stand.
Didn’t Hurwitz do that piece of shit show, “running Wilde”?
that’s the one of which we shall never speak.
AD was a great series. Well written and super funny. It just wasn’t marketed properly. No one knew what it was about. Maybe on a second run it might do better???
AWESOME! Now THAT’S worth TWENTY TWO dollars a month! Yay!
Wow. I hope they bring back Scrubs as well. And maybe they can squeeze more life out of Chuck. No one watches that show either!
cOOl news
Uh, the ratings were never very good, (largely due to lousy scheduling and marketing by Fox) but this show did very well on DVD and it has a huge following…it’s an iconic comedy show.
Good…I always heard that it was Michael Cera who was holding out and that the rest of the cast was game…If that is true, he obviously came to his senses.
Or he screwed up his career. Whichever.
He did say a few years ago that he didn’t want to do it again, because he was afraid of being typecast (Yeah, that ship already sailed). But, within a few months of saying that, he’d already changed his mind, and said he’d love to do it. Everyone’s been on board for doing the movie for over 2 years. But, Hurwitz has been working on other stuff, and since he was writing the script for the AD movie, it just moved slowly. Apparently there were some problems getting deals worked out to everyone’s satisfaction as well. From what Jason Bateman said a couple months ago, Hurwitz’s deal was the only one left to finalize. Since details are still pretty light right now, it’s hard to say if everyone’s actually signed deals or not, but at the least, I imagine Hurwitz wouldn’t have announced anything at the panel, if he wasn’t at least confident that they were close to being signed.
I’m a college student & I was just introduced to AD. I finished all 53 episodes within 2 weeks of arriving at college! I have gotten my family & friends hooked on this show!
PLEASE don’t take it to Showtime. I need to be able to see the new episodes immediately. I could foresee the limited run working well on NBC. It fits their brand of humor! Bring on the funny.
Also, Amy Palladino, take notice! I’m pretty sure that you could give us 2-3 great final seasons of Gilmore Girls once Parenthood goes off the air after this season.
Yes, yes, love it. Yes!
If it happens, I bet it’s gonna be disappointing. Running Wilde wasn’t really funny and Hurwitz didn’t show us anything good besides AD yet. Way to crash the epicness of the show.
It will be interesting to see if they are able to reassemble most of the writing staff…I think it’s pretty clear that AD was more than one person. It was a perfect blend of a creative/writing staff.
This is NOT a huge mistake!