Arrested Development Revival

[Cracka Jack]

From USA Today:

At an Arrested Development reunion Sunday at the New York Festival, the creators and cast announced plans for a new TV show that spins off the short-lived but critically acclaimed TV show, which went off the air in 2006 after just three seasons. They also discussed more concrete plans for a much-awaited movie.
Creator Mitchell Hurwitz said the spinoff will feature nine or ten episodes focusing on each character and leading up to the movie. The first scene of the movie will be all the characters reunited.
The Fox show, which suffered low ratings despite its rabid fan base, starred Jason Bateman, Michael Cera and Portia de Rossi. They played members of a dysfunctional family who ran a collapsing real estate development company and frozen banana stand.
Shooting for the TV show is tentatively set to begin next summer.
The movie doesn't have a release date, Hurwitz said, adding that the creative aspects have been largely worked out, but the business side is still being negotiated.
"We're all game," he said. "We've hated being coy, but we've been trying to put together this ambitious idea."

So, it looks like one of my favorite cancelled shows ever is getting the chance to come back and end itself properly. As long as they find the right network for the mini-series, then it should all fall into place from there. There's already a small bidding war starting up over the rights, with at least Showtime and Netflix reportedly interested. The show is expected to be on sometime in 2013, so while the wait may be long it should be worth it. I'm super excited about the news, so lets hope it gets made and can truly live up to the original series.

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Yeh I'm really excited about this, mainly because of the gap between the series' and how it all ended in the 3rd. It'd be cool if they can get some guest stars back like Kitty, Maggie, Rita (maybe) and Barry to pop up in episodes.

Glad they have til next summer to get the episodes written up instead of doing a rush-job. As long as they aren't over-written then this could be a great series for them in the run up to a film!