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Mitch Hurwitz Is Done Building ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!!
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“Arrested Development” creator Mitch Hurwitz says he will not be involved with the series’ still-theoretical fourth season, a decision Tuesday morning’s Variety categorizes as “likely fatal” to the series.
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That is one good show, if its finished, it will be missed.
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nOOOooOoOo!!
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...he's got greener pastures calling. Ah well, it was a good run. I'll put my Development DVDs on the shelf right next to Sports Night.
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Dude, give the guy the money he wants. I was watching Serenity for the 100th time, and after having converted my 40th person to THAT show, I started with Arrested Development.. and then THIS. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Because "Annyong Kaeseyo" is Korean for saying goodbye (well, one of the ways). My goodness I'm clever ... But seriously, that's terrible news.
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...in one form or another.
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NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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He is doing this with the prospect of something else. I really, really want more arrested, but at least we had a great run and a final episode that tied up a load of loose ends.
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At least we have each other.
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Carnivale didn't. Carnivale deserved one.
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like the guy in the $7000 pants is gonna watch some other show. come on.
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Perhaps someone could pitch the show to our Mexican friends in Columbia?
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...leave it be...it's legacy is pretty much assured now.
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Too soon?
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i had a feeling this was gonna happen, esp. after the amount of closure in the third season finale.
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What? The guy in the $4300 suit is telling all the loyal, die-hard fans that AD is 'creatively spent'? COME ON!!!
But Seriously...THANK YOU MITCHELL. But, you know, as much as I like The Office, My Name is Earl and Scrubs- none of them hold a candle to AD at it's best. Not even Curb does. God, I'll miss Gob. -
http://tinyurl.com/r7wd5
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That AD didn't get one chance after another to try to find its audience. Sometimes a show is just too far out there for its own good. It wasn't just Fox's fault. The show ultimately was too inaccessible to the regular TV viewer. It happens.
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Look at what network TV and FOX has done to a brilliant man. This man was an incredibly capable writer with an Emmy winning show, and solely because of the grief and stress that the network placed on him, he is so jaded that he will not continue with this show. Just imagine how long it could have gone on if it was with a "supportive" network. In the final season, FOX was telling Hurwitz to make the show 30 percent dumber. Can you imagine that? Being told to remove jokes and put in "middle America humor"? It'd be terrible. So yes, this is really too bad, because under different circumstances the show could have gone on longer. I'm just upset that with the way the show was treated in it's final year, it may not be up for the Emmy accolades that it was last year, and it definitely deserves some for it's final year. It looks like I'm falling back on The Offie, Veronica Mars (if you cancel this, I'm done), and what I am assuming will be the brilliant, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip...Maybe Hurwitz will do a new show in the future...
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At least the finale was a proper bookend to the series, as a 4th season obviously would have negated (not that I would have minded). It just is such a shame to say goodbye to these wonderful characters...Rob Thomas of Veronica Mars fame stated that if AD wasn't picked up, the roles he has given Alia Shawkat and Michael Cera in this Wednesday's Veronica Mars episode could/would be recurring/regular next season, as he'd be happy to give them steady work. This would be fantastic if it happened.
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Mar 28, 2006 7:09:56 AM CST
May Vallely, Higginbotham, and all the other writers...
by danielkurland
migrate to the Office next season. Hell, put Gob on the show. They could rationalize it, it could make sense, and seeing him and Michael (Scott, not Bluth) argue would be terrific.
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It's better to have laughed and lost then to watch a great show hold on too long.
But what about a spinoff with George Michael and Maibe ... romantically attracted semi-cousins who solve mysteries and fight crime!
Give it a darker, dramatic twist like the Lou Grant spinoff. Late in the first season, when it's about to be cancelled, they can have special guests, like Uncle Buster, who has begun hearing voices and killing people with his new mechanical hand.
Never mind, that sucks ...
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Oh well. We got a few good years (some shorter than others) so I guess I can't complain.
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There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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This show was just fucking brilliant.
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guys seriously, AD is a self contained huge story arc which started off brilliant and ended brilliant, tieing up all the loose ends. Its time to let it go and on a high note, might i add. Do we want a season of a rehashed plot going nowhere and then getting unresolved and cancelled?
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It just looks like he
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Somebody should write a Greasemonkey user script that translated Variespeak into actual English. Any takers?
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Totally gutted. Next to Sopranos this is the best show on TV.
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if the Literal Doctor made an appearance in those final episodes, much could have been done with him and the Buster coma storyline.
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The War at Home, The New Adventures of Old Chrsitine, Out of Practice, According to Jim, Hope & Faith!
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Godammit! Why, why, why...
especially with all these mid-season sitcoms being rip-offs of AD's format... I'm going to stay in denial about this awhile. -
it ended well, everything was wrapped up. It had a lot of chances, although some may argue about Fox switching slots. I guess it just wasn't mainstream enough which was good and bad. I still think NBC should've picked it up and paired it with Scrubs. Or imagine the return to Must See glory they would've had with Earl, Office, Scrubs and AD. God damn they would've had a lot of us glued to the couch for 2 hours. Oh well at least we have our dvd's.
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I guess Showtime couldn't manage a budget high enough to do the show justice. I had hoped that they might have done shorter runs to bring the cost down a bit. A 10-13 episode could have worked. But it seemed obvious that AD wasn't coming back since Buster signed up for all those pilots. Ah well. I can but hope that Hurwitz will make another show soon. Hopefully on cable - but I guess not Showtime.
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as long as most of the other creative team sticks around, we're alright...
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except AD was good and firefly was anus from day 1
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Oh the humanity.... How can we live in a world where Mitchell Hurwitz is not swimming in many many millions and millions of dollars like Scrooge McDuck?
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/28/DDGPUHUQ381.DTL
I'd dare say Tim Goodman has been the world's greatest Arrested Development critic advocate. Damn you Fox, damn you. -
I finally got around to seeing Serenity this weekend. Suck. Fest.
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This show sucked so much, no wonder it was cancelled. The only people who like this show are chronic masturbaters who have been crying since this show ended. Godd riddance Arrested Developement.
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You must splooge everytime "git r done" is uttered.
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He can still save the show if he and the actors still want to do it. It doesn't mean "the end", it just means that there's only about a 5 percent chance of it continuing.
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in the last episode, or did i just imagine that? 4 million viewers at 8 bucks a ticket... it'd totally make money.
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It's rare that great shows go out on top any more. We had Angel go out on top but before that? I think you would have to go all the way back to Homicide: Life on the Street, and even they came back with an unnessecary movie. Be glad that the show didn't go out gasping and resting on it's past glory like so many a "Friends."
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i know mitch's been hesitant, but damn it... it still sucks. and amazon says that season 3 dvds have no release date (whereas before, they said it was in like, june/july, now it says nada).
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Because we had 2 and a half seasons of brilliance whereas you had... 5 epidodes shown out of order on the crappiest night of the week? I see the similarities.
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Damn the stupidity of the vast majority of my fellow Americans. Damn it to hell. Choke on your "The War at Home" fuckers.
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Unfuckinbelievable. I saw some of this piece of shit last sunday and it was so awful, it was surreal. Michael Rapaport has got to be the worst leading man on a sitcom in history (the history of sitcoms i've seen) And no, us AD fans aren't like Firefly fans, please don't sully our reputation by commparing us to those babbling lunatics.
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This makes me sad in ways that I can only express through the medium of dance. Jokes aside, I can't believe that's the end. I mean - I honestly LOVED this show! The term "funniest show on television" gets thrown around a lot, but in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT's case, it was accurate. This is really bad news.
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Remember asshead, that all its all relative moron, I was comparing two quality shows that died before thier time... nothing more...in that respect its very accurate.
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There's an oasis in the desert that is Veronica Mars, the one show that stands between UPN and The Absolute, Total Suck. A show that is much, much too good for the network of South Beach and Smackdown.
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None make up for no more AD, but they help ease the pain a bit.
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I'll admit that. But nothing has made me laugh quite like AD did, I've laughed so hard I cried just thinking about some of the jokes. Now I'm just crying...
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When Fox cancelled it I too hoped that NBC would pick AD up and put all those great shows on Thursday night. If they moved ER and put Studio 60 in its slot, that truly would be must-see TV.
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I am glad it's gone. Just so I don't have to hear the incensant whining about what a gay...I mean great show it is. No loss. Now Firefly...THAT was a loss!
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..and didn't dick us with a cliffhanger season finale like Carnivale did.
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any word on whether or not their gonna do the miniseries thing in '07?
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michael Hurvitz said - and I'm totally paraphrasing here - that he's quitting Arrested D-- because he was totally burnt out on it. and creatively spent. he poured everything he had into maintaining that high level of quality for three years and that's really all he had in him. he then goes on to add that the showtime deal was practically in place but there wasn;t enough money involved - at least not enough heading his way. He rather bravely concludes that if there had been enough money offered he would have quite happily sold out, churned out a few years of crap, let the shows quality decline and signed the checks, but we were spared that debacle because there wasn;t enough cash involved. *** he also says he's serve as consultant if they continue without him, but will NOT be showrunner or writer... although he would be interesting in working on a feature film version. Yes, that was, of course, the series punchline joke in the final episode.
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