TV Teaser: ‘Arrested Development’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 12, 2013 @ 8:00pm PDT

Here’s your first look at the reborn Arrested Development, which debuts 15 new episodes on Netflix on Sunday, May 26 and this week launches a viral Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand campaign on the streets of New York. Check it out:


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‘Arrested Development’ Gets Premiere Date On Netflix, Order Increased To 15 Episodes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 4:00am PDT
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Emmy-winning comedy Arrested Development will premiere new originals on Sunday, May 26, on Netflix. All episodes from the show’s upcoming fourth season will be available simultaneously on the launch date, a strategy Netflix has used for all of its original series, most recently the first season of House Of Cards. As for the size of Arrested Development‘s fourth season, it keeps growing, with the final number now set at 15 episodes. As we reported in December, during production on the originally commissioned 10 new episodes, Arrested creator/executive producer Mitch Hurwitz shot more material than planned and also came up with ideas for additional scenes and storylines. Hurwitz and Arrested producers 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV approached Netflix, which agreed to expand the order. In January, Netflix announced that a 14-episode fourth season of Arrested will premiere sometime in May. Read More »

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‘Arrested Development’ Documentary Seeks Finishing Funds On Kickstarter

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:23pm PDT

After the record-breaking success of last week’s Veronica Mars Kickstarter launch, another crew of filmmakers is striking out on the crowdfunding platform with a film linked to a beloved cult series. Filmmakers Jeff Smith and Neil Lieberman spent five years nabbing interviews with Arrested Read More »

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ICM Partners Signs Portia De Rossi

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 4:13pm PST
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EXCLUSIVE: Actress Portia De Rossi has signed with ICM Partners. She was previously at WME. De Rossi next reprises her role as Lindsay Bluth Funke in Netflix’s new season of Arrested Development. Additionally, her series … Read More »

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Netflix CEO Says ‘Arrested Development’ Will Be A Single Season “One-Off”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday February 25, 2013 @ 8:32pm PST

While celebrating the “great success” of Netflix‘s House Of Cards, CEO Reed Hastings announced today that the company’s Arrested Development series will likely only run one season. “We … Read More »

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Movie Talk Heats Up For ‘Arrested Development’: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 2:56pm PST

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Jason Bateman spoke about the possibility of a forthcoming Arrested Development movie as if it were practically a sure thing during a TCA panel promoting the long-awaited return of the comedy with 14 new installments on Netflix after a decade-long absence. The show is set to debut in originals in May, with all 14 being made available simultaneously via Netflix. The fresh episodes are “basically just the first act that we hope to complete in a movie, which will be acts 2 and 3,” star Bateman said. “The episodes will set that up, and one will not work without the other.” But he quickly added, “This will, however, provide a satisfying conclusion if for some unfortunate reason the movie doesn’t happen.” In other words, this isn’t merely a one-time novelty return of Arrested Development but the first element in the franchise’s continued re-invigoration — they hope. Creator/exec producer Mitch Hurwitz explained after the panel that what became a series originally was conceived as a movie. “We’d mapped this out as a movie and then worked backwards to do these shows. So it might not be a movie. It might be something else. I’d be happy with it as ColorForms at this point.”

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Netflix Sets Premiere Date For ‘Hemlock Grove’; ‘Arrested Development’ Due in May For 14-Episode Run: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 9, 2013 @ 1:36pm PST

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

In his opening remarks before today’s TCA panels on Netflix‘s first slate of original programming, Ted Sarandos, Netflix chief content officer, announced a debut date for Eli Roth’s one-hour murder mystery … Read More »

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Winter TCA Press Tour Starts: Schedule

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 4, 2013 @ 7:51am PST
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It’s January, time for some TV pageantry. I’m not talking about beauty pageant pro Honey Boo Boo’s Sunday return to TV with several specials on TLC, but rather about the semi-annual tradition known as Television Critics Association press tour, which starts today in Pasadena. The two-week affair features broadcast and cable networks touting their upcoming shows. Increasingly, hit series make repeat appearances alongside newbies. This time around, that includes NBC’s Revolution and Grimm, ABC’s Shark Tank, IFC’s Portlandia and CBS’ Elementary (tied to the freshman’s post-Super Bowl episode). For the casts and producers of Revolution and Elementary, this marks the second consecutive TCA press tour after first facing the critics in July. Also returning to TCA after a decade-long break is Arrested Development, which has been revived by Netflix.

Below is a basic schedule for the tour, which kicks off with a packed lineup that includes panels for David E. Kelley’s new TNT drama Monday Mornings, TBS import Cougar Town, A&E’s Psycho prequel Bates Motel executive produced by Carlton Cuse, and Christopher Guest’s new HBO series Family Tree. HBO once again is bringing out the star power for its movies, with Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and David Mamet on tap for Phil Spector and Michael Douglas, Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh for Behind The Candelabra. Here is the schedule, and check back for Deadline’s TCA coverage:

Friday, January 4 – Cable: Turner, Nat Geo, A&E, HBO, IFC
Saturday, January 5 – Cable: Discovery, Starz, BBC America, Viacom Networks
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Arrested Development Pauses Production As Netflix Episodic Order Grows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 11, 2012 @ 6:08pm PST
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EXCLUSIVE: Good news for Arrested Development fans. The new season of the cult Mitch Hurwitz comedy commissioned by Netflix will be larger than originally planned. I’ve learned that, during production on the 10 new episodes ordered by Netflix, Hurwitz shot more material than planned and also came up with ideas for additional scenes and storylines. Hurwitz, producing studio 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV approached Netflix, which agreed to expand the order to what I hear will be 12-15 episodes. As a result, production on the show, originally slated to wrap right after Thanksgiving, was extended for a few more weeks. But, given the complexity of adding material as you go on a show where none of the actors are in first position and filming has to be done around their existing schedules, I hear 20th TV at the end of last week decided to pause production so Hurwitz can review the footage already in the can and take his time figuring out the best way to incorporate the new arcs. Once he is done, the studio will begin working on securing the actors needed. Filming is tentatively slated to resume in late January. The producers have some breathing room as Netflix is targeting a spring premiere date for Arrested Development when it plans to make all episodes available at the same time. Read More »

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Is ‘Seinfeld’ The Greatest Sitcom Ever?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 3, 2012 @ 4:26pm PST

Let’s set aside that this 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll should be discounted completely because I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show weren’t offered up as choices.  But among TV shows that were, Seinfeld edged The Honeymooners as the … Read More »

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‘Arrested Development’ Adds Chris Diamantopoulos In Guest Role

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 2:39pm PDT

The Three Stooges co-star Chris Diamantopoulos will join Arrested Development on the show’s new home on Netflix. He will appear in at least three episodes. The actor, who was on NBC’s Up All Night last season, … Read More »

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‘Arrested Development’ Starts Filming New Episodes For Netflix, Entire Cast To Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 5:46pm PDT
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EXCLUSIVE: The new installment of Arrested Development for Netflix will begin production tomorrow. I’ve learned that the entire cast of Mitch Hurwitz’s cult Fox series — Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Jessica Walter, Will … Read More »

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Netflix Stock On Rise After Monthly Viewing Data Revealed

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 5, 2012 @ 2:10pm PDT

Netflix Stock PriceNetflix shares rose 13% today after a the market took yesterday off due to the July 4 holiday, closing at $81.72 thanks to the company’s biggest single-day gain since late January. The surge comes a couple of … Read More »

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Netflix To Stream All 10 New Episodes Of ‘Arrested Development’ At Once: Report

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 18, 2012 @ 9:25pm PDT

When Netflix gets around to filming new episodes of Arrested Development — show creator Mitch Hurwitz says production will begin this summer — the streaming video service will release all 10 new segments at once, according to a reportRead More »

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‘Arrested Development’ Actors To Reunite At NAB As Talks For New Season Continue

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 12, 2012 @ 2:08pm PDT
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A Q&A session with Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos at the upcoming NAB Show will feature Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and several cast members of the cult Fox comedy series, which is producing a new season for the … Read More »

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‘Arrested Development’ Writer: Original Cast Is Back, And “There Are Offices And Parking Spaces”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 2:49pm PST

The revival of the Emmy-winning sitcom Arrested Development has taken another big step: According to series writer and co-exec producer Dean Lorey, the entire original cast is returning. Lorey via his blog also wrote that he, Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely are penning a … Read More »

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Netflix Picks Up New Episodes Of ‘Arrested Development’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 4:40pm PST
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Netflix And Showtime Eye Potential New ‘Arrested Development’ Limited Series
Just like it did with its first original series acquisition, drama House Of Cards, Netflix has outbid an established … Read More »

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Netflix And Showtime Eye Potential New ‘Arrested Development’ Limited Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday October 2, 2011 @ 5:13pm PDT
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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 … Read More »

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Fox Agrees To Movie And TV Streaming Deal With Amazon Prime

The news comes from a posting on the Amazon Prime site by the online retail company’s CEO Jeff Bezos. Here’s what he says:

I have big news for Amazon Prime members – we’ve just signed a deal with

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