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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Earmarked For Demolition??
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“Arrested Development” is doing so poorly in its new slot opposite “King of Queens”? Fox has cut its episode order from 22 to 13!! Owch!!
Darren Starr’s horrible “Kitchen Confidential” – the worst show on the air with the best cast (including some of the finest elements of “Buffy,” “Alias” and “Freak and Geeks”) – also appears doomed as doomed can be, you know!
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wtf?
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Say it ain't so!
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just another case of a Whedonite hijacking a TB.
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RIP Tobias Funke
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Has anyone else noticed that AD has been a little off tone-wise this season? (Though I have to admit that I found the MRF revelation pretty damn hysterical.)
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Damn it. I knew this was going to happen. As much as i'd like to blame all the bastards who didn't watch this show, some of the blame has to go to the writers. There were too many in jokes that I think pushed new viewers away. I love this show.
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...just when I thought that television was finally ridding itself of mediocre, creatively-devoid programming. I guess I'll just watch the Season 2 box set...again...and again...and again...
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I think the Office is pretty good, but Kitchen Confidential is kind of shitty.
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If only it were as funny as it thought it was.
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best show on. big shame. at least we get one more box set out of it.....bring on a gob spin off.....
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I'd fuck that tard any day.
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Yeah time to pull the plug, I think. Fox must be bleeding money every time they air AD, with that huge cast. Hasn't been particularly good this season anyway, the only funny thing was Tobias Funke the AnalRapist. So, here's to AD, we hardly knew ye. Well, we did for 2 and a half seasons.
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Arrested Developement is comedic genius at it's best, and Kitchen Confidential is witty and fun. But if people want to watch crap, we can't stop them. Seventh heaven should got to hell and die, that's all I'm saying.
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How can anyone say Bob Loblaw is not funny!
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Fuck.
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The cunt being Mischa Barton.
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It'd be fun until one of her hip bones pierces my heart.
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Herc's asinine slaps at Kitchen Confidential (I've seen the next three eps and they're all pretty darned funny), but then i remembered: It's Herc. His opinion means jackshite. So I decided not to worry about it. Because seriously, in a season with "Twins" wasting Sara Gilbert's talent....
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Inevitable, but still... shitty. I still can't understand why they don't put it in its old timeslot sunday at 8:30. Considering I, and pretty much everyone I know, all consciously switch away from Fox at 8:30 and switch back at 9, it'd be a lot easier if they just canned the war at home and put an actually decent show in its place.
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Man, I only had three days where I really watched primetime TV: AD /Kitchen Confidential on Mondays, Earl/Office on Tuesday, and Sunday night block on Fox. Now Monday's fucked, what am I supposed to do? READ?! FUCK THAT!
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Move it to HBO or showtime, where they could really go all out on their humor and go a full hour for each episode? The only reason it's being pulled is because of competition from DUMB shows and STUPID football which apparently most of the country would rather watch. People suck. It's one of the few shows that really gives you the impression that actual intelligent people are responsible for it (and the actors are great too!!) - rather than a room full of fully frontally lobotomized idjits rehashing the same sitcom over and over again because they're incapable of original thought. Oh well. Hey, completely off-track, but...does anyone else think George Bluth Sr. would be great as the butcher in the 'Midnight Meat Train' movie???
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Nov 10, 2005 9:36:16 PM CST
apologies for going off topic but Smallville just delivered thei
by whedon
Just when I was starting to think Tom Welling was completely wooden, he gives an amazing performance once his is infected with the silver kryptonite. Great episode...
1. Marsters maintains his god like status as Milton Fine "I know who you are" "I know how to kill you" "I am Kryptonian"
2. Chloe just being the greatest woman any hetero man could ever dream of "I would die before I told anyone your secret" Better not happen writers
3. Papa Lional dishing out the tough love to Lex "That is why Lana Lang will never love you" ouch
4. Ma and Pa Kent getting knocked the fuck out. Particularly Clark just unloading right in his mom's face. and Jonathen Kent's "Your just a thing I found in a cornfield"
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Fuck Fox, right in the ear.
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I mean, does ANYBODY give a shit about War at Home? It's like Married With Children except....y'know....not, like, fucking good. Rappaport's decent, as is the older brother, but the daughter, the mom, the younger kid, and the entire writing staff are just ass on a silver platter. Give us Sunday AD!
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My wife loves it. I could never get into it and I don't know why exactly. Same with that Earl show. Maybe it's the narration. Things should be funny without someone explaining to me why it's funny. Then again, Raising Arizona is one of the funniest movies ever and it opens with thirteen minutes of narration. Let this show go away. I don't care.
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It was a good episode and I couldn't stop staring at Chloe's clevage. Those bastards had better not kill her.
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Nov 10, 2005 10:35:57 PM CST
I'm seriously just gonna pack my sweet pink mouth with so mu
by brendahamlincoln
This is yet another reason to never watch network television, I find that more and more often, my most watched shows are on cable, Dog the Bounty Hunter, South Park, The Adam Carolla Project, Curb Your Enthusiasm...I wonder if Fox realizes that most of the viewing public, at least the portion that still has most of a brain, change the channel as soon as the Simpsons end, then come back for Family Guy. I tell you what, I've made some fantastic sandwiches in that time slot, I had one chicken pesto thing the other night, damn, much better than Michael Rappaport's chewed up ear.
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Nov 10, 2005 10:42:57 PM CST
Listen, i'm all for keeping quality shows on the air, but fu
by hypeendshere
A) the writers are content with being clever and not funny B) The rule of television comedy is that i should be able to jump in anywhere. if the first episode i see is episode 50, i shouldn't have had to see the first 49 to get the jokes. this show didn't allow for new viewers to feel included C) whining that you're not being watched and criticized for not watching causes resentment. this show had more chances than most. so fuck it.
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If I had been imperfect and wanted to self-flagellate by conducting a thought experiment in which I must
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Nov 10, 2005 10:48:31 PM CST
RE: Chloe - "I would die before I told anyone your secret"
by kai_mah'gra
......she's a goner; as good as dead.
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WOW WHAT A GREAT EPISODE TONIGHT!! imagine if herc and them watched TONIGHTS episode, they would be eating their words....that was better than any buffy episode. great acting by tom welling tonight, the music was fantastic, just overall the best ep of the season so far. classic!
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Two weeks ago when I read that Fox needed to make room for Prison Break so they didn't have to give it a hiatus, I knew that there was only one solution. Axe AD and Kitchen Confidential. I'm devestated. I blame everyone who watches Bones and The War at Home. If people didn't watch those shows there might still be room for Arrested. However, I have good friends at HBO. I'll spread the word around, but I doubt it will do much good. Even HBO is about to launch 3 camera/live sitcoms. Stay tuned for "Lucky Louie" this June.
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Stacked too. Who is watching that show? Apparently a lot of people.
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..i mean i'm the one who came up with fuck mountain.
in years to come once this show gets discovered by the audience it deserves all those fools who ignored this yet helped make two and a half man a hit will all hang their heads in shame.
it is, and i don't use this word loosely, genius.
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I have looked into the face of ignorance, and it is the American majority televison viewing audience. As Homer Simpson once said, "I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world." Excuse me while I beat myself with a hammer until I find the intricate nuances and subtle cleverness of shit like "According to Jim" funny.
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Nov 10, 2005 11:57:15 PM CST
13 friggin episodes? Sigh. Just got into it over the summer to
by tall_boy
The good die young.
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Yes, I think AD is the best coemdy on TV right now and is more than capable of surpassing Seinfeld (some would argue that it has already). The foreshadowing, inside jokes, and sheer effort put into this show is why it is great. Yes, this season has been a bit more outrageous, but I love the fact that they're making the show even more difficult for newcomers to get into. They only care about the fans, which they know they can't afford to do. It's easy to hate FOX, but really, they HAVE given it many chances (however more advertising would not be said no to), but it's their only real Emmy winning show right now (if you don't include the new House). So yes, this is upsetting, and when you consider how much these guys can do in one episode, cutting 9 is tragic, but Hurwitz has also said he would shop this around if they got cancelled, and I don't see how another network wouldn't want this award winning show. I'm glad FOX gave it this much of a chance, but 5 seasons of this wonderful gem would be enough, and I'd be content.
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I'm beginning to think our European neighbors may not be off the mark when they talk about American idiocy. You can't deny this makes a compelling point to their argument.
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Nov 11, 2005 12:07:29 AM CST
Yea, sometimes (most of the time) networks are boneheads
by gheorghe zamfir
But you can't hate FOX too much here, they gave the show two full seasons, and watched the ratings decline over both seasons, and get even lower this season. All in all FOX was pretty decent this time around, still earned my ire for cancelling Undeclared and Andy Richter. Ah well, whenever I get said I'll just put a fag in my mouth and think of AD (and damnit, no idea last week was two episodes in a row, missed the second episode, argh!).
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Of course they're cancelling it, they aren't advertising it!!! That whole Carmen Electra thing was bullshit. If they gave a damn, they'd have constantly shown the old eps during the bullshit summer. Oh well, there's always dvd i guess. And apparently the odds of it moving to FX (at least), are impossible, it's budget is probably more than "Over There" or something like that. As for SMALLVILLE, fuck yeah! Tom Welling is always fucking awesome when he's affected by some form of Kryptonite. I was able to predict that it was Brainiac, but wow, Marsters kicked ass. What a crazy episode, can't wait for next week's! And goddammit Herc, Kitchen Confidential is awesome, and as much as I wanted to give My Name is Earl a chance, it's gone nowhere. At least Kitchen Confidential has kept my interest.
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Charlize looks great but really adds nothing to the show, neither does that entire storyline. Not surprised its ending, but still sad since its the only "sitcom" i like.
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I would have watched kitchen confidential, or given it a try I should say if it wasn't on fox.
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WHo the hell are these "Neilsen households" that can make these determinations? Do you know any? Judging from their taste in what actually gets high ratings, they must be inbred troglydites livng in a cave somewhere. I mean, "Ghost Whisperer" is getting good ratings, f'r crying out loud! Can't they come up with a better system than this antiquaited dinosaur which rewards the most banal and stupid and kills off anything that might be quality? AD (and Kitchen Confidential, for that matter) were great shows. The fact that the mouthbreathers at Fox are replacing with that snoozfest Prison Break just shows how the four networks should be smashed into pieces and scattered to the winds.
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Nov 11, 2005 12:25:34 AM CST
I'd like to kiss that man between the cheeks.. so to speak..
by chickychow
just had to throw out some Tobias...
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It's just much less irritating for 22 minutes. For every humerous bit on AD, I have to sit thru uncomfortable stretches of irritation. I'll do what most viewers did. PASS>
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Man, this is the funniest thing on tv. Yeah, it'll never be a ratings winner, but you'd thing all the press it gives them and the good dvd sales would be enough to keep it on for the people that like their sitcoms to be funny. You think anyone's going to care enough to buy The War At Home on dvd? Prison Break's a good show, but I'm not going to tune in for a rerun of last weeks PB instead of a new AD. The show just came back from hiatus and now it has to go off again! Fuckin' sweeps. I still don't understand why they don't just calculate advertising rates based on ratings for the whole season instead of a couple months where all the networks pull out their best gimmicks.
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I swear, if I lost both those shows this year, I'd be done with TV pretty much.
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Nov 11, 2005 12:50:28 AM CST
the 4 million who watch AD every week obviously like the show...
by mrgreentheplant
since arrested development in considered an "inside" show, only about 4 million homes watch it every week. but those 4 million plus people LOVE IT because of this fact. i'm convinced that they'd retain at least 75% of that audience if they moved to, for example, FX (3.0 rating is a shitload for a cable network). is there a petition yet? fuck fox, more accurately, fuck the morons who didnt give this a chance by watching the first 3 or 4 eps of season one. and, of course, jim belushi. how i loathe him...
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For those who say Fox gave it a fair shot this season -- I guess so, but it was off as often as it was on what with MLB and extra Prison Breaks, etc. You can't build a following if you have to be a die hard fan to even find the show. Let's just hope they give Prison Break another season; I'm interested to see where it goes once they're out.
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Nov 11, 2005 1:14:26 AM CST
Eh, Comedy Central should pick up the other 11 episodes...
by thecomedian
They could take a page from Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network started running Family Guy after fox canned it. It got an even larger cult following and voila Fox brought it back. Arrested Development is all shot on 24p HD so how freekin' expensive could it possibly to produce, probably not that expensive at all since the bulk of the eps usually take place either at the house or their office. Comedy Central NEEDS an A level cult hit since Chapelle left. Stella and the Mexican guy ain't cuttin' it.
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Nov 11, 2005 2:18:10 AM CST
Apparently, Mori is a Neilsen viewer. Don't you have a big l
by lenny nero
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Your point be may be a standard for shitty network shows that require no thought, but that is the point they are shitty. It isn't a surprise that the best shows out there all have continuing plot themes, Arrested took that approach with a comedy. It was a weak timeslot, Fox's attempt to create a Monday night comedy hour were doomed to fail, it is a show that proved it couldn't get huge ratings after the Simpsons, so putting it up against the CBS comedy block and NFL left it no chance.
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Nov 11, 2005 3:40:24 AM CST
I've asked "AD" haters this question a few times, but never
by smarkjobber
...which shows on TV right now are funny to you? And if your answer is, "there's nothing funny on right now," then what was the last good comedy you followed?
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Because I distincly remember my first impression of the show: pretentious, fast, flashbacks, but 3 eps in I was loving it. The show makes sense to us watchers, but the average Joe would be completely lost if he tuned in.
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I just got into the show too.
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Sad, but completely and utterly expected, news. Guess I'll sublimate my sorrow with a "banger in the mouth."
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I enjoy this show, but it's not something I plan on watching. If it's on I'll watch it. I think part of its lack of appeal has ot do with the scattershot, fragmented nature of the narrative. It's allways boinging all over the place and I think people get a little weary of that style of storytelling. Also, the voice-overs are lame (though I like how Adult Swim's Squidbillies is parodying the AD voiceovers). Still, you can't say they didn't give it a chance.
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...if it had Frasier as a lead-in, then blocked with Scrubs, it would have found it's audience. The FOX comedy audience skews too young for this kind of set-up writing.
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Dumb fuck americans. It's probably to expensive for HBO to produce too. It would be awesome if they didn't have to blep the one or two curse words per show. Damn this sucks.
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Nov 11, 2005 8:19:02 AM CST
The American TV viewing public, in general, are a bunch of fucki
by drebin
Movie watchers for that matter, too. Four weeks ago, The Fog was #1 at the B.O. The next week, Doom. As Homer asked, "Why is everybody stupid but me?"
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Nov 11, 2005 8:26:23 AM CST
Time for me to take off my receptionist skirt and put on my Barb
by winterchili
This is a travesty of a mockery of a shame of two mockeries of another shame.
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Nov 11, 2005 8:36:50 AM CST
"On the positive tip, ABC has given a full-season pickup to Warn
by big jim
Has anyone watched "Freddie"? Other than because it is on right before "Lost"? I catch the last few minutes of it when I change over to "Lost". Freddie Prinze is not funny. The jokes are set up from a mile away and then fall flat. And the set is terrible. Look at the view out the window, it is so obviously a painting. This is what people want to watch? Too bad AD wasn't on ABC, it could have been huge (hey, it's not that foreign a concept for ABC to air a show like AD; they were, after all, the network that gave us The Job. Then again, they were the network that cancelled The Job).
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You think CBS or ABC would have had the balls to air a show? Or Family Guy? Or that any of the "Big 3" would have put the Simpson's on 17 years ago. The reason FOX gets bashed for cancelling so many shows is that they are the ONLY broadcast network that actually takes a chance on innovative programming. If you don't air any good shows, you can't get blamed for cancelling them. Yeah, FOX has some stinkers right now, but at least I don't have to watch "The War in a Miami-Home" or "Bones: Special Femur Unit." We'll miss you Bluth-family. Keep you're chin up. And "keep your balls in the air."
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by signing this petition: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/arresteddev
and www.getarrested.com
It can't hurt, and it's better to do something about it rather than nothing.
The show's not cancelled yet, although all signs are pointing to it.
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He deserves it.
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Alright, I *am* an AD fan, and I'll be sorry to see it go, but those of you who are blaming the public for watching other shows...you sound like the fanatic Browncoats who hate the public for not going to see "Serenity". I'm gonna say the same thing to them as I am going to say to you: The public has no damn responsibility to watch the show. If it's as intelligent as you say it is, guess what? Most people aren't that smart and aren't likely to get into it. Me? I loved the Godzilla-type reference in the last ep (George Michael in a jetpack, Tobias in a Mole costume...reminds me of good times, man, good times). Yes, I think it's a fucking travesty that Fox wants more "War at Home" and "Stacked". But, it's obvious TV execs are not going to change; they're going to keep on stupid stuff the viewing audience will swallow up and not complain about because it's what's ON. They're going to keep assuming the public is stupid and likes stupid television. And you know what? It's TRUE. This is why I don't get heartbroken every time they cancel or screw up (I'm looking at YOU, House) a show I like. Because it gives me even more reason to dissociate with those executives who assume I'm stupid. Break the cycle, folks. It's a bad relationship we got here with the TV. And with the advent of shows on DVD, I don't feel so bad about it anymore. So, it's time to break it off.
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...not pantsuits. Her legs were terrific, too.
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I'm so depressed about this I'm going to get me one of those corn dog crosses, with all the cruci-fixin's.
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That's what the American TV public has. AD is one of the two best comedies on TV along with Scrubs. To cancel it just when they find Onyong is criminal. Oh Fox you do blow hard.
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What?! That's ridiculous. My gosh, why doesn't Fox just cancel is and let it move to another network. Let FX air it. It'll probably get more people to watch. It needs to. It's so good. Where's the Talk Back for "Smallville" though? Gosh, "Splinter" was an amazing ep!
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But as others have said, it's not particularly surprising. I also have to agree with another poster who said we need to be happy with the AD that we've gotten rather than angry about the AD we won't get. If it is cancelled at the end of this season it will have survived against all odds for three season (albeit two shortened seasons). I think it's the best show on the air right now, but I'm just happy that I'll be able to own three seasons of one of the best comedies ever on DVD. And hey, is it not possible that Fox decides to shorten all future seasons in order to reduce costs and keep and Emmy winner? You know, the best of both worlds.
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Nov 11, 2005 10:44:58 AM CST
They need to get George Clooney or on of his friends on the show
by big bad clone
HBO will but on anything Clooney wants them to. Unscripted was no where near funny and they ran that.
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Nov 11, 2005 10:51:43 AM CST
I have to bring up the ratings system and the retarded Neilsen f
by big bad clone
Seriously, is this the best way to take ratings? I have never meet a neilsen family but all my friends love AD. Where the fuck do they store the peopl they feel represnt millions of viewers?
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They should bring it back to the Sunday slot and can War at Home. Oh well, it got lucky just to be picked up for it's third season. We all knew this was coming.
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Why cancel the best comedy show on tv. Fox proves once a gain they do not know good tv. I mean you start shows when the MLB playoffs are on and world series, and then expect people to remember the shows. Don't do it. Leave the baseball to the baseball channels or sport channels. I swear if you cancel Arrested Development again, I am going to start my own channel that brings back good tv shows that were cancelled especially on your network FOX!
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Nearly everything I dearly love gets shitcanned while the drivel rises to the top. We're what - like five episodes into this season, so that's another eight. Are they already in the can? Will the show get a proper send off or will it just sort of end because Fox won't ever committ to keeping it or junking it until the zero hour. And I've got news for them - nothing will do well in that time slot. They're going to spend so much cabbage developing all these shows that will just revolve through that hour. Until American Idol comes back, of course. Can't Ron Howard and Grazer flex some muscle and get Tom Hanks or Russell Crowe in there to help boost ratings - all kinds of little Bosom Buddies and Virtuosity jokes and asides. Because apparently Charlize Theron doesn't have enough draw. And Neilsen families are fucking idiots. The only good Neilsen is a dead Neilsen - or Leslie.
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Nearly everything I dearly love gets shitcanned while the drivel rises to the top. We're what - like five episodes into this season, so that's another eight. Are they already in the can? Will the show get a proper send off or will it just sort of end because Fox won't ever committ to keeping it or junking it until the zero hour. And I've got news for them - nothing will do well in that time slot. They're going to spend so much cabbage developing all these shows that will just revolve through that hour. Until American Idol comes back, of course. Can't Ron Howard and Grazer flex some muscle and get Tom Hanks or Russell Crowe in there to help boost ratings - all kinds of little Bosom Buddies and Virtuosity jokes and asides. Because apparently Charlize Theron doesn't have enough draw. And Neilsen families are fucking idiots. The only good Neilsen is a dead Neilsen - or Leslie.
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Nov 11, 2005 11:16:55 AM CST
It's ok Batuatta. There's a term that perfectly describ
by r.c. the "wise"
Retarded. Oddly or coincedentally enough, it's the same mindset that most of Hollywood has.
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oh well, just looking for a clever kitchen pun. Too bad about that show - I thought it was kinda funny. Bring on Eyepatch Xander! I'm not generally a sitcom fan and I think the old style audience laughter multiple camera sitcom is a total dinosaur. I'm loving My Name is Earl - I think it's great at balancing exaggerated humor and lightheartedness without going too vulgar. And the Smokey and the Bandit references last week were hilarious, including the bloopers in the credits. KC was entertaining, while Alyson Hannigan's sitcom HIMYM is just painfully unfunny crap. But people seem to like that, longing for their Friends fix, and that gets picked up. So unfair. Just started watching AD season 1 dvd and I'm loving that too, but maybe it's a show that's not meant to last (I mean it works better because it's shortlived).
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This is such bullshit. I love this show. Fox sucks and so does everyone who has continuously ignored one of the most consistently hilarious shows on tv.
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Nov 11, 2005 12:08:13 PM CST
"Because apparently Charlize Theron doesn't have enough draw
by big jim
She might have been more of a draw if Fox had bothered to advertise her being on the show. I never saw a single promo for this show, let alone that she was on it. Were there any? I only knew because of this site and from watching the show. ***** If the show does end without a proper ending I hope Howard & Grazer care enough to fund an hour-long finale for the Season 3 DVD.
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I think I can remember a time when 4 million was a lot. Wait. Isn't it still? Surely if there is that big of an audience (even if its small by tv standards) there is a place for AD.
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They moved Arrested Development from it's Sunday evening timeslot alongside Simpsons,Family Guy, and Malcolm, where it was being showcased with other programs that appeal to the same fanbase, and moved it to Monday night in a shitty timeslot, and then pre-empted it for two months so slack-jawed morons could watch a bunch of 'roid fiends play baseball.
No, that's not what I'd call giving it a chance. Every time I turned on the TV expecting Arrested Development, I was instead greeted with some douchebag in a fucking baseball cap spitting tobacco garnished with some commentary by a fat middle aged has-been trying desperately to sound important.
Please understand folks, Fox isn't interested in what intelligent people want to watch. They're perfectly happy catering to the mindless testosterone fueled buffoons, and the human stool samples who enjoy reality TV. It's profitable and you don't have to pay writers to come up with something compelling.
So sports fans I'd like to close by giving a big "fuck you" to..,well, you. Fuck you, fuck your stupid baseball, basketball, football, golf and all of that other horseshit you pussies spend so much time contemplating. I'm sick to damned death of great shows starring REAL entertainers getting cancelled or pre-empted in favour of fucking assclown sports events. It's bad enough that those so called "athletes" get paid more than brain surgeons to play a fucking game, but the fact that my shows are being pushed aside for macho sports bullshit is going to push me over the edge one of these days. Aren't there like 15,000 ESPN channels? Doesn't Fox have at least a couple of sports channels of their own? Why the fuck can't they just keep the sports crap on those channels and let the rest of us enjoy Arrested Development or whatever else? Why?; I ask you... WHY? -
That is all
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If you take a look at Seinfeld, that took a while to get a big audience. Comedy shows take a while to build the fan base. Fox needs to put Arrested Developement and Kitchen Confidential on either tuesday,wednesday, thursday, or friday. This really is a gem of a show, and Fox really does not know how to run or pick shows, other than FX networks, and Foxsearchlight, but their regular cahnnel, I mean who is in charge and who makes these asinine decisions. Stop Reality tv and start making creative original shows.
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Arrested Development? It's only the best show on network TV. Considering the company is owned and run by a bunch of shitheads this doesn't come as much of a surprise. Now The Office is the only watchable show on network TV.
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I really liked this show, maybe they could do better ratings on a network like USA.
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This is the sort of show that would make a great movie. It has a great cast and writing - and a cult following of dedicated viewers. Since it has failed to find a sufficiently large audience on TV, lets make it into a feature-length movie!
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Man, I was loving my comedies this year - My Name is Earl, The Office, Arrested Development, and Scrubs. Scratch Arrested Development from the list. Sigh.
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couldnt tell from some of the posts..but it is cancelled..from mediaweek today.."-Fox Cancels Arrested Development and Kitchen Confidential:
After two and one-half low rated seasons, Fox has given up on Arrested Development, and will end the critically acclaimed sitcom after a reduced current order of 13 episodes. Also getting its walking papers at Fox is companion comedy Arrested Development. " -
the last time ad airs, will be the last time i watch fox
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Nov 11, 2005 3:33:06 PM CST
yes, the simpsons has run its course and we have been clamoring
by jig98
i'm sure that's no reason to kill it, i mean, i still watch the simpsons and always will and i have a nice simpsons collection and i tell this to everybody even if they want to say goodbye already. come on.
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F bombs galore.
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...even a non-fan like me wouldn't have cancelled it. From internet boards, it would seem like it's their most popular show. I wish these execs would get away from antiquated Neilson ratings. Christ, track Tivo if you must, but banking multi-billion dollar businesses on what some dude wrote down on a card should send shareholders running for the hills. ....... Kitchen probably wasn't gonna get good, but how would I know? They only showed like two eps. Typical Fox, I've always hated them to death over their insane troll logic, "What, the entire country isn't watching our show after one ep, we might as well cancel it. We only spent millions to develop it. And after all, the viewers had all that time to research the show before it came out in Variety and TV guide." I remember telling people about Action and Profit, right after they were cancelled and no one I talked to heard of either show. It wasn't just that they didn't watch them, they never even heard about them. Because most people don't obsess over television like us sad sacks. But you can't complain too much about AD, it had a longer, more stable run than most Fox shows, by far. If I would have known it was gonna last that long, I might have given it more of a chance. I just don't invest in Fox shows much anymore. ......... Right on about the Smallville talkback. That was easily one of the best eps of the entire series. I see Herc that you had room to talk about a price reduction on Friends DVDs. WTF?!? Like anyone, from any of these talkbacks, cares about buying Friends on DVD. Yet I've seen discussions of Smallville on several TBs. Supply and demand man, and I don't mean Amazon's.
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Fuck Fox. Hopefully someone will pick up Arrested at least long enough to end the story. But hey, look on the bright side, we have American Idol to look forward to in January. And probably another Swan. and Trading Spouses. And the rest of the drivel that does so well with brain dead jackasses.
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we're lucky we had 3 (2 1/2) seasons. Fuck the haters.
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I was just getting into this show too. It does seem better suited for HBO though, it could have done much more!
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It's a show that panders to people who want to think they are smarter than everyone else.
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DAMN! I haven't been this sad since UPN Cancelled Homeboys from Outerspace. Nielsen Families ain't got no taste.
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Nov 11, 2005 9:13:46 PM CST
AD was hilarious. No clue what the "It panders to elitists" frea
by bino white
Maybe people watch shows because they genuinely like them? Just a thought.
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Who needs a TV show looking for a smart audience?
"shhhhh ... the TV!"
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I'm probably just in denial here, but I suppose it's possible that the show isn't completely done. They were already going to have to take time off because of Jason Bateman's surgery and American Idol. Maybe they'll give it another shot next summer if the DVDs sell well. Oh, who am I kidding - the first article I ever read about AD before it came out said it was likely too quirky to stay on the air. It's over.
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Nov 12, 2005 12:14:21 AM CST
Arrested Development dies, while Freddie soars. It's a bizar
by electric_monk
During the World Series, FOX promoted the hell out of Prison Break (along with a few of their new shows and some of the returning ones). It worked, and the show has succeed in the ratings and has gotten good critical praise. I'm not sure if they promoted Arrested Development, but they sure didn't as much as Prison Break. Sure the World Series was low rated (except maybe in Chicago and Houston), but that does not explain why FOX continued to ignore AD.
Yesterday, FOX announced that they were pulling AD -along with the lame Kitchen Confidential - for the remainder of the November sweeps. They also cut the episode order from 22 to 13. Basically, they cancelled the show (without "officially" saying it) and told the producers of Kitchen that they should not expect an order for anymore shows beyond the 13 they requested.
Thus, Arrested Development now becomes another notch on the wall of shows that die long before they should. The show is funny, brilliantly acted and written. The narration from executive producer Ron Howard is as droll as the comedy on the screen.
So why did this happen? Well, obviously -and maybe a tad stereotypically - it failed because Americans are stupid and TV networks create shows for an auidence with a 12th grade education. It -
I'm not sure why anyone ever says "the network didn't get behind this show." FOX wants every single onee of its shows to succeed just like any other money making venture. Fact is, AD bled viewers every week even after FOX, against all better judgment, renewed it for this season. I've seen the show. it was intelligent, but I don't believe for one minute it was too breath takingly brilliant for Americans to watch. It just wasn't that captivating a show.
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Just people who are smarter than you.
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Blame Kitchen C.; if it had been any good it would have drawn in viewers who would have tuned in early and caught AD. Since KC tanked Fox wants to clear the whole hour. Blame "Home on Range" or whatever it's called for being given the Sunday slot Arrested D-- deserved. They only gave Rappaport a sit-com because they screwed up my canceling "Boston Public". Blame "King of Queens" for being a staid but reliable fatguy/hotwife cliche with a stable fan base; 10.5 million beats 4.2 million. Certainly blame Fox, but praise them for keeping AD on for a year and a half longer than the ratings warrented. ***** And for the record "Most people" watch The Simpsons, then channel surf for a half hour or turn the tube off, then come back to ABC for "DH" and "Greys",
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Nov 12, 2005 6:20:53 AM CST
Emily Gilmore will be the only funniest person on TV once AD fin
by scrooged
America...for shame. 29m viewers watched the latest CSI. There is no justice!
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Seriously, does anyone think homophobic heteronormative American mainstream audiences avoided Arrested -D-- because of Mrs. Portia DeRossi-Degeneres, who plays that cunt-ry and western music loving lady Lindsay Funke? ***** Oh, and I hope losing AD doesn't cause a Patton Oswalt backlash just because King of Queens regularly killed AD in the ratings 105 to 4.2 - That Lou Ferrigno/Adam West episode of KofQ was pure Genius and the only people who don't think so are fan boys who recognized themselves as the butt of the joke.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/GOBLUTH/petition.html
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Most TV shows and movies are targeted at a 6th grade education, not 12th. That would be shooting on the high side for the intelligence curve in the US. Sad but true.
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To a certain extent, that is true. Still, FOX's corporate utopian style creates a certain atmosphere where they will promote one show over another. And while Prison Break got great ratings and good reviews, AD has proven to be more worthy -a conceit, I grant you. But, I still stand on the ground that satire of this show -and the ones metioned in my first post - is lost on a good percentage of American's. These are the ones who need the jokes spelled out for them, these are ones who fail to understand puns and why Scott Baio's charater name of Bob Loblaw is so funny. My question remains, American Public, why does Still Standing, Two and Half Men and Freddie -all universally stupid - get picked up year after year? Comedy is hard, and AD tried its damnedest to make it good, while Joey, Hope and Faith and What I Like About You all play it safe with overused jokes that are not even remotely funny. Or is it like what Homer Simpson said about working, "Don't quit your job, just go in everyday and do it half-assed. It's the American way."
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Nov 12, 2005 12:00:21 PM CST
Again, the way that they schedule these shows is usually what ki
by scytheofluna
Fox does this kind of shit all the time. The first Family Guy this last season began with a joke about all of the damned programs they've cancelled over the last few years, some of which were actually not bad. Sorry, Tru Calling was a guilty pleasure but it was in a competing time slot with ER, so go figure it wouldn't do too well. Futurama was very successful until they moved it from the Sunday night line up and into a crummy time slot too. When Arrested Development was positioned in between the Simpsons and Family Guy it had a better chance of finding an audience over time ala Seinfeld. Obviously Fox wants it's shows to succeed, but they have no patience, and won't commit the time to build an audience if it doesn't happen immediately. Arrested development began this season and after a couple of episodes they replaced it with baseball for almost two months. After attempting to watch the show several times people tend to give up and start watching something else. Fox also did little to no advertising to indicate when the show would return. Yes Fox wants their shows to succeed but if it doesn't happen immediately they cram the program into a shitty timeslot,and leave it there to die. And these ridiculous pre-empts and increasingly frequent mid season reruns are pissing me off to no end. As far as Arrested Developments future: In all likelyhood we'll all be left with zero closure, since Fox will charge twice the shows value for the rights, should any other networks show interest in continuing. Maybe HBO or Showtime can afford it...
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I imagine folks who work all day long want to plop exhausted in front of the TV and be entertained without having to think and analyze the show too much. Do you really want to read Shakespeare or James Joyca after an 8 hour workday, dealing with kids, etc? Dumb shows make it because people want simple things to entertain them when they need to relax.
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AD should defintely move to HBO. imagine a night of watching Rome, then AD then Curb then Extras!!! I'd think I died and went to heaven.
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You heard it here first. Being outrageous, ridiculous, and uncomfortable do not a funny show make. I'll take Simpsons, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, etc kind of shows over this anytime.
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Nov 13, 2005 4:20:33 PM CST
"yeah right the guy in the 4 thousand dollar suit is going to ho
by slappy jones
...come on!"
"even if i have to take a chubby i will suck it up"
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Sorta funny. Got old fast for me. Better than many sitcoms, but most sitcoms is shit.
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Nov 13, 2005 11:55:59 PM CST
Just too good for the freenets... more than one level of humor a
by diskatopia
Fox, where they are seemingly genius gods at finding amazingly superb and amazingly well-written shows... and dastardly devils at cancelling them ( [cough]Action,[cough] Andy Richter CTU, [cough} Lone Gunmen, [cough] Futurama,[cough] et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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...we live in where a show like AD gets snuffed after 2.5 seasons while The Simpsons continues to suck like the black hole of anti-funny that it became after going super-nova funny in season 8. And what's this about Freddie Prinze having his own show now? Me am so happy to live in Bizarro world!
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I don't see why they couldn't move Arrested Development to FX. Over There has been canceled, The Shield is a shell of what it used to be and Nip Tuck has always been horrible. FX needs quality programming and AD is an Emmy winner with a built in fan base. As far as production costs they would probably only have 13 episode seasons and DVD sales would more than offset any additional costs.
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Consider a marketing blitz or something... anything to keep this show on the air. It's literally the only program on television for which I'll change my plans to see. It's fantastic. Don't let it die.
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Nov 14, 2005 4:55:41 PM CST
There's a really good article in today's SF Chronicle al
by iamnicksaicnsn
It's by TV Critic Tim Goodman.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/DDG4NFMUAI1.DTL
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