Last month, “Arrested Development” creator Mitch Hurwitz announced that there would be a 9- or 10-episode season of the show that would serve as a primer for the long-awaited, forever-germinating “Arrested Development” movie. Late on Friday afternoon, Netflix announced that it would stream the new season in early 2013. (Good call on making the announcement Friday afternoon, by the way. That way it has all weekend to fall out of Monday’s headlines.)
Netflix said on Friday that it had struck a deal for new episodes with the makers of the show, 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television. The episodes are to start appearing on the service in 2013. “Bringing a series back from cancellation almost never happens, but then, ‘Arrested’ always was about as unconventional as they get, so it seems totally appropriate that this show that broke the mold is smashing it to pieces once again,” the founders of Imagine, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, said in a statement. Streaming episodes of the critically acclaimed show have remained popular among Netflix subscribers, giving the company the confidence to make more. [NYT]
So it’s really happening. This is fantastic news, if only because it shows that years of fanboy whining has finally paid off. That means we could get a fourth season of “Community” in 2018.
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No. No no no.
Stop it Ron Howard. Yes, AD was a perfect show. Yes, I watched it when it was on TV. NO, they should not make any more episodes. The pressure will be far too high, people’s expectations will be too great. Everyone will be let down and it will hurt the legacy of the show. It’s a stupid decision to make more episodes and a movie
Awesome maybe next they can bring back Love Monkey
Tim is a great believer in the “Trying is the first step towards failure” mantra.
Well. Netflix certainly knows how it feels to make a huge mistake.
@La Schmoove
I’m just incredibly pessimistic about it. It’ll be like Star Wars all over again.
No it won’t. Mainly because George Lucas won’t be in charge of Arrested Development.
Yes, there was hyperbole in that comment. My fear is that the show will be pandering to the nth degree. They will dumb down too many of the jokes and not use nearly as edgy material, on top of the problem that it can be construed in being a 4.5 hour long advertisement for the movie
Arrested Development Arrested Shmelopment. The Game of Thrones Second Season Footage Featurette came out:
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I hear what yer saying, Tim, but I’m cautiously optomistic about this news. I think Hurwitz is too smart to dumb down his material knowing that’ll piss off the fanbase that got the show ressurected in the first place. Plus, once these episodes come out, we’ll get some closure on the series as a whole and once THAT happens, then all the superfandom will die down and we can focus on creating facebook pages for “Community: The Movie!”
*resurrected
Spelling am hard.
+1 Tacos.
“Yes, there was hyperbole in that comment. My fear is that the show will be pandering to the nth degree. They will dumb down too many of the jokes and not use nearly as edgy material, on top of the problem that it can be construed in being a 4.5 hour long advertisement for the movie”
You should carry a tape recorder around.
A showed being streamed to a niche audience will probably be dumbed down even less than a primetime show on a major network.