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    'Arrested Development' announces new show, movie

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Bluth family's frozen banana stand may be back in business.

    At an "Arrested Development" reunion Sunday at the New Yorker 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."

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    Fox is owned by News Corp.

     

    77 comments

    • yahoo user  •  7 mths ago
      Can't wait! Great show! Much better than all the reality #$%$ that's on tv.
    • Don B  •  7 mths ago
      People lament: "Why don't 'the networks' put on something good, instead of 'reality #$%$'?"
      The premature cancellation of this show--and other creative ones-- is one obvious answer.
      • PasserBy 7 mths ago
        i hope history treats A.D. as well as it did Star Trek, another great show that only lasted 3 seasons.
      • Tom 7 mths ago
        How is it premature to give a show that was losing MILLIONS of dollars 3 seasons? Especially when it was getting FEWER views each and every week. (Desptie delusional idiots like you claiming that "everyone who watches is hooked for life" when that would obviously mean that ratings would NEVER get lower.)

        The show should have been cancelled before the third season so we wouldn't have to hvememories of that absolute crapfest of a season where the writers semed to think that it was funny to show the Star Wars clip 50 time, or seemedto think that Charlize Theron was a good actress.
      • Jimmy 7 mths ago
        Charlize Theron was an MRF. That was the point.
    • Ned  •  7 mths ago
      Steve Holt!
    • EdB  •  7 mths ago
      coka-coka-coka-coh coka-coka-coka-coh
      • Kate 7 mths ago
        CHICKENS DON'T CLAP!!!
      • musikfans 7 mths ago
        Have any of you actually ever seen a chicken?
      • PavlvsMaximvs 7 mths ago
        A coodle coodle goo!

        Cookoo ka-CHA! Cookoo ka-CHA!
    • Diogenes  •  7 mths ago
      Wow! Just loved ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. What laughs. Really hysterical. Who could think up a frozen banana stand with a quarter of a million dollars cash lining the booth- and then having it burn down? Lots of great gags. Here's keeping my fingers crossed they have another go at it. Afterall, there isn't very much good comedy of the tube these days....And don't we need a real belly laugh about now?
      • PasserBy 7 mths ago
        There's always money in the banana stand... just don't let any flamers around it!
      • -- 7 mths ago
        Zeno.. really well said. Loved and miss this show!!
    • Steve  •  7 mths ago
      Having Henry Winkler's lawyer character Barry Zuckerkorn jump a shark on a dock and later be replaced by Scott Baio as Bob Loblaw -- proof that this show had the most clever writers on television. Welcome back Bluths!
      • PavlvsMaximvs 7 mths ago
        The Bob Loblaw Law Blog. You sir, are a mouthful!
      • Jimmy 7 mths ago
        Let's stop talking nonsense with Bob Loblaw.
    • musikfans  •  7 mths ago
      Well, that's just great. I blue myself for nothing.
    • juju  •  7 mths ago
      Motherboy XXX!
    • Will  •  7 mths ago
      Bob Loblaw
      • Ben 7 mths ago
        's Law Blog
    • Liz  •  7 mths ago
      Can't wait for the show to come back, was one of my favorites.
    • dani  •  7 mths ago
      i am afraid i "blue" myself prematurely.
    • Jim  •  7 mths ago
      Get a Gob, guys.
    • Jimmy  •  7 mths ago
      Can't wait to read all about it on Bob Loblaw's law blog.
    • Jenn  •  7 mths ago
      Loose seal!
    • Christie  •  7 mths ago
      Chee-chaw! Chee-chaw!
    • Kreg  •  7 mths ago
      George Michael: Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!
      Gob: Who said anything bad about America?
    • Micki P  •  7 mths ago
      Loved this crazy show!! Have the series on DVD. Would like to see the movie & have it back on tv, as long as they don't try to "change" too much. Stay true to the characters & dry dead pan humor. Very, very funny!
    • chris  •  7 mths ago
      I blue myself !!
    • PavlvsMaximvs  •  7 mths ago
      It's called Oxyincontinent.... It keeps you from being incontinent.
    • Dan-O  •  7 mths ago
      Can't Wait!
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