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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Creator Mitch Hurwitz Developing New Fox Sitcom: Animated SIT DOWN, SHUT UP!!
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As Mitch Hurwitz awaits a greenlight for a proposed big-screen “Arrested Development” movie, he’s now got a new small-screen job developing Fox’s animated sitcom “Sit Down, Shut Up.”
Based on a short-lived 2001 live-action Australian comedy, “Sit Down” focuses on a self-centered high school faculty. Fox will decide whether or not it wants to take the project to pilot and/or series once netlet execs observe actors performing Hurwitz’s script at a table read.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Yeah, the one from Austintown
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...First!
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Don't put this man through this kind of misery twice!
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it ought to be a show about Howard Stern's childhood. bababooey bababooey bababooey bababooey bababooey bababooey
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Fox will fuck it up.
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What is wrong with these two? They get fucked by Fox then they come back for more.
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Maybe there is a God!
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Mar 12, 2008 12:11:20 PM CDT
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by grandmufftarkin
I told you not to be stupid, you moron.
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This is some bruhaha.
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It appears I am not the only one who heard Ben Stern's voice when I read the title of this article. I loved Arrested Development dearly and I look forward to anything and everything that Hurwitz is involved in. Can't wait for the movie, if it ever gets made. Oh, and baba booey to you all.
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First thing i thought too! LOL
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Ben Stern daycare
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I teach high school and it would be funny to see a show get it right. The abysmal Boston Public was not a show about teaching so much as Education Policy where each character was standing in for a Type. Mr. Harper wasn't just the principal, he was City High School Principals Across America.
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You fucking dork!
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It blows my mind that his ABC sitcom with Tambour and Christopher Guest was not even PICKED UP. Very excited about this, but I don't see why he's so eager to be working with Fox again...
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Fox has fucked over a lot of shows (Drive comes to my mind first) but they did give AD 3 seasons when it drew terrible ratings. So what's this about a feature version of it? That is great news.
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I was a high school English teacher for 10 years and in my estimation nothing has gotten it right more than the movie Election.
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if it's a cartoon on Fox I automatically expect it to get moved around, pre-empted, cancelled or get no respect, a la King of the Hill, Futurama, Family Guy. Look - what the hell ELSE do they have to put on? They should be drooling for anything by the guy who gave us Arrested Development. Dummies.
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Into an animated one for prime time? Did someone drop a paradigm(shift) on the network heads or have they just started recruiting executives off of Skid Row?
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Ah, this takes me back to my '70s childhood, when so many prime-time live-action hit shows had corresponding Saturday morning animated counterparts. Among others, "Jeannie," "Emergency +4," "The New Adventures of Gilligan," "The Brady Kids," "The Partridge Family in Outer Space," and some other space-travel-type show based on a former series, starring the original actors, but I forget the name.
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I mean, COME ON!
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Why is the decision to greenlight this being made after a mere table read? Shouldn't they also be looking at character designs so that the crack team of Fox merchandisers can best determine what sort of action figures, keychains, T-shirts, underwear, breakfast cereals, and other tchotchkes can be mined from the source material? All of which should have characters spouting catchphrases full of attitude, irony, sarcasm, pith, and other verbiage.
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....Though nearly all Aussie sitcoms (save Mother and Son, Kath and Kim and, er, um....) are bad. If Hurwitz can polish this turd, it'll be a miracle.
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What a snide, snobby snark you are.
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nothing beats smart and cool older people, specially if they're jewie. If they can'T get them Kelly Bishop should reprise her role as Ray, shes a fucking cougar
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for cancelling AD. How the hell is this supposed to work? If it gets picked up I won't know what to do. haha
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The show may have sucked, but it's a great premise! Have a little faith in the guy.
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I dont even remember this show, thats how amazing it was. Then again, almost all Australia comedy, drama and movies tends to suck a lot of donkey cock.
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Faith is a fact.
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I sincerely apologize. I am not a racist.
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Oh I have confidence in Hurwitz (I've seen every ep of AD at least three times), I just hate seeing hack Aussie comic writers being rewarded for mediocrity...
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Just bypass this site and go read The Hollywood Reporter site because it seems all the news here is just reposts from there. Thanks guys, it was sort-of fun while it lasted.
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