Arrested Development = Funniest New Series

toekramp

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Holy hell I thought all prime time tv had gone to trash until I got to see this. It has much more of a HBO comedy feel than a typical cable sitcom and i think it's gad damn hilarous. Anyone else had the pleasure of watching the Bluth family?
 

Fenixgoon

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Originally posted by: SportSC4
don't worry, fox will 'family guy' it soon enough.

what does that mean? just wondering
i thought family guy was absolutely hyserical, though a lot of that stuff is definately offensive to other people
 

Ticks

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It is a superb show, i almost started a thread on it the other day. In related news, they announced that they picked up the WHOLE season of it. Woo hoo!

Monday, November 24, 2003 - 8:07 AM
FOX to Stay 'Arrested' for Full Season
By Brian Ford Sullivan

CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX has picked up its freshman comedy "Arrested Development" for a full season of 22 episodes. The news was announced via press release this morning.

The series had recently been named the "Fall's Best New Sitcom" by Time Magazine, the "Best New Comedy" by Entertainment Weekly, the "smartest and sharpest comedy of this ? or last ? season" by TV Guide and the "funniest new comedy on the fall schedule" by US Weekly, among others according to the network.

In addition, FOX has scheduled a mini-marathon of four episodes of the series for Wednesday, December 31 beginning at 8:00/7:00c. The cast is expected to shoot wraparound segments for the event.

Despite all the good news, "Arrested" has struggled in the ratings, averaging 6.8 million viewers and a 3.0 rating/7 share among adults 18-49 through three airings. Even worse, last Sunday's episode lost 3.4 million viewers from lead-in "Malcolm in the Middle" (9.2 million vs. 5.8 million) its worst retention rate (63.04%) to date.

"Arrested Development," a co-production of Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Televisionm is executive produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, David Nevins and Mitch Hurwitz


and this surfaced after last sunday's episode....

promising news from tvtome:
December 08, 2003

Well whadaya know, ratings grew to a 5.3/7 last night. The show retained 84% of Malcolm's lead in, which is the highest retention rate of ANY SHOW airing in the 9:30 timeslot since Malcolm entered that period. Including Malcolm repeats, The Pitts, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, That 70's Show repeats, Simpsons repeats, and Oliver Beene. For the second consecutive week, it did better than King of the Hill, I believe if we stay above the Hills (in a much tougher timeslot) we'll be okay. Remember, new episode this Sunday at 9:30, same time, same channel.
 
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I like it, it's hilarious....and yeah, it does seem more like an HBO kind of show, so that means that it's GREAT :D
 

Spoooon

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The part on tonight's episode where the old man is running around, "For god's sake Michael, I don't even have a jock on!" :D
 

Lager

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Fox will cancel this show like every other good show.

Futurama
Family Guy
Undeclared
John Doe
Firefly
The Jennifer Love Hewitt Show
Ally McBeal


and keep crap on like...

Oliver Beene
King of the Hill
The Simpsons
Jimmy Kimmel Live
 

new2AMD

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Originally posted by: lager
Fox will cancel this show like every other good show.

Futurama
Family Guy
Undeclared
John Doe
Firefly
The Jennifer Love Hewitt Show
Ally McBeal


and keep crap on like...

Oliver Beene
King of the Hill
The Simpsons
Jimmy Kimmel Live

Moving past this post...

Arrested Development is pretty darn funny. Gotta love ron howard for comin up with this one and then narrating it. Very twisted and probalby should be on pay tv but its still good without being able to swear.