The future’s not so bright for Stereogum readers’ favorite sitcom. Elites TV reports on this “worst entertainment news of the century.” C’mon Fox, we want our Chachi.
Update: Waxy digs up footage of David Cross slamming Fox’s marketing team.
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makes me cry like i just gave birth and my husband is partying with strippers.
i refuse to believe this. i do know that the show will take a brief hiatus because of bateman’s surgery. but it will be back. and it will stay. dammit, it has to!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i’m just so glad “the war at home” gets to stay.
wait.
um…
yeah, nevermind, fuck whoever is doing the programming at fox.
whoever is in charge of marketing/promotions at fox needs to vsit the analrapist.
i think they officially changed the name from fox to the prisonbreak channel.
Woohoo! It’s about time.
last week’s episode with the triathlon was one of the funniest things i’ve seen on TV all year.
the show is outright brilliant. it can’t leave.
Check out CNN, it be over. Along with 7th heaven. Thanks God, way to take my two favorite shows!
The sad thing here is that Arrested Development’s situation is a lot like Cheers, which was critically praised but didn’t draw a lot of viewers for its first few seasons. I think it took 3 or 4 years before it got really popular.
seinfeld too
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I’m sad to read this – AD is one of the most original shows on TV in years. Every time something intelligent gets on the airwaves, it gets killed. Honestly I’m surprised AD has survived as long as it has.
what pisses me off is that they are taking it off the air until dec. 5th, and its place they will be playing a Prison Break rerun. that show is terrrrrribbbbblllleeee.
brett ratner. I hate brett ratner. He’s behind this shit, I know it.
Anyone know of a petition we can sign?
Whoever is behind this cancellation is a “Seaward”!
arrested development is the funniest, best-written, comedy on tv in my lifetime. certainly not enough people have given it a chance, and there are too many dumb people that don’t “get” the quick wit in the writing. i hope this is just another scare like when it was reported that after last season the show would be cancelled.
Attention HBO: You know how you spent all that money producing “The Comeback” with Lisa Kudrow? Remember how virtually NO ONE thought it was funny? Here’s a show that pretty much everyone thinks is funny (well, everyone who has managed to locate it on the FOX schedule). HBO: go and pick up this series from FOX. It’s funny, people will watch it.
*uncontrolable sobbing*
..snif.
Methinks this show needs to go to the FX channel alongside The Shield, Rescue Me, and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Good Riddance. This show was awful. So many people told me I’d love it b/c I love Curb Your Enthusiasm & The Office, but I never laughed once at the show.
This is really so sad. I can’t believe that something as well-written as Arrested Development could fall victim to the ratings trap. The show is without a doubt the best comedy on TV, quite possibly ever. This show has far more laughs than Seinfeld or Curb could hope to pack in. I guess it’s just that extra effort that brainless people aren’t willing to put forward. “Uhh, I don’t want to have to think to laugh… Just give me a sitcom that plays off of Pamela Anderson’s breasts…” Ridiculous. It’s a sad day in the world of original creative programming.
I love AD, too.
Apparently though, it’s even more expensive to produce an episode of AD than it is to produce an episode of F/X’s Iraq war show Over There. So don’t count on it showing up on another network.
But if you want to support the show, support it with your wallet: pick up AD season two and season one immediately if you haven’t already. Even if you do have it, buy another copy.
CD
look at us, we’re crying like little girls…
**walking away, head down**
with sad Charlie Brown music playing in the background
effin’ brilliant
http://www.myspace.com/arresteddevelopment
The editor of The OP is trying to get people to bring the show to the attention of other networks. Help out!
GOod luck with your petition… I would say you’re wasting your time, but The Adventures of Pete & Pete DID get released on DVD after years of petition by fans… just don’t hold your breath.
The thing is, Fox can choose to withhold (“look at me, getting off”) selling it to other networks, even if said networks show a great interest in buying it, just so they can continue to profit off of AD’s dvd sales, as well as other AD related merchandise. They did it with Futurama. I would say this is quite likely. Bloody Fox.
There is this part (not scripted) in the extra features on the season 2 dvd where David Cross is standing there in the “attic” in his bra and half of his Mrs. Featherbottom getup ranting. He points out this show has gotten all these awards and been recognized as being good, but still Fox’s AD marketing team apparently isn’t competent enough to get anyone to watch it. Where is the real flaw here?
It took me a little bit to warm up to AD but then it quickly became my favorite television show of all time. Anyone saying that Curb your is more funny is deluded. Larry David seems to be out of ideas…I mean an entire episode on the handicapped bathroom stalls? Stretching it. The only reason I have been able to see it in the last month was because I actively searched it out. So is it going to take a family guy slowly growing cult status of dvd sales to make it be put into fox’s thick skull again?
I agree that if NBC put it before the office it would be perfect, there has to be some intelligent tv viewers out there?right? Maybe that’s why the show is failing…it’s the only show worth watching.
But it’s still no joey.
It’s almost as if they sabotaged it. I don’t watch enough TV so maybe you guys can tell me. They have Charlize Theron who won a Best Actress Oscar in 4 of the 5 episodes this season and I dont see them pushing that at all on their station. WTF? I mean how fucking easy is it? It’s too easy, somebody if not alot of people need to get fired for making this decision. Cunts the whole lot of them.
http://www.saveourbluths.com has contact information for people at FOX. Write them a nasty letter and complain about the situation.
http://arresteddevelopment.ytmnd.com
Seems like any show that isn’t showing a boob every other minute gets cut from FOX.
send an angry letter!
askfox@foxinc.com
FOX axed a quality show with a devoted following? I am shocked. Shocked and saddened by this sudden sea change in programming policy.
Petition you can sign regarding the Cancellation of Arrested Development.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/arresteddev
those in charge at Fox have no idea of how to keep intelligent tv watchers happy. First Sports Night, now this…..
The cancelation of AD basically sums up the pathetic mindset in this country. Middle America is a bunch of freakin’ idiotic cattle cluelessly being brought to slaughter. They are addicted to mindless reality TV (American Idol, The Osbournes, etc). They need to be told what to wear (Gap, old Navy, etc). They need to have their food made for them, and fast (McDonalds, KFC, etc). They need their vacations planned for them (Disney World, cruise ships). They need their children entertained for them (Disney, Nickelodeon, etc). The list goes on and on. They are a group of mindless drowns that are so f***in’ lazy they won’t even think for themselves. “I MUST DO WHAT THE TELEVISION TELLS ME TO DO”…”IF THEY ADVERTISE IT ENOUGH IT MUST BE GOOD”. People today are so afraid to be different, unique, independent and they’re teaching their children the same mindless lazy lifestyle. F*** lazy ass middle america and F*** FOX.
whoah thats totally fucking interesting… wtf is this shit?
Maybe if the show didn’t explain everything that goes on screen with that god-awful Ron Howard voiceover and just let the jokes happen it would have survived. I was never a fan of the show, but it always seemed to me like the v.o. took away from the laughs — even make it seem like every episode was the first episode.
Also: maybe it all was just a wee bit overrated.
It was a f’ing brilliant show.
It is just bizarre to me that “The War at Home” gets better Nielsens then “Arrested” … Maybe the problem lies in those Nielsen boxes ….
I have a friend involved in “War” but it is AWFUL.
But to cancel a show because “Prison Break” had two big episodes and 2-hour shows during the baseball playoffs shows short-sightedness.
Right now, FOX shows nothing but baseball in October and expects the audience to remember the shows in November.
I love the Simpsons, and missed the Halloween show because it wasn’t on until Nov. 6th.
C’mon!!!!
ecq
Brilliant writers. Brilliant cast. “Arrested Development” cannot be duplicated. Script was pure genius. Fox doesn’t want that, though — they’re too busy pouring their $ into “Trading Spouses”!
y`all want some cheese with that whine? AD is a good show but it was destined not to make it on a major network like FUX because it is smart and quick, unlike the majority of people watching tv in this country. plus its not a crime drama. maybe if michael got a job as a forensic scientist the show’s ratings would spike.
i cant believe they cancelled it. first they moved it from sundays just when people were gettin used to it for the horribl horrible american dad and the war at home and to make matters worse they put it on mondays with a bad kitchen show against MNF and their preview show. what the fuck is wrong with fox? bunch of idiots. this is family guy all over again.
The people at Fox can suck on my Linus while stroking my Charlie Browns
Please contact your friends and sign the petition so we can get a list of a few hundred thousand names. Step one – Demand the reinstatement. Step 2 – Declare war on FOX and their advertisers. FOX intentionally mismanaged this brilliant show and must be punished. Let’s see what the power of the internet can accomplish.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/arresteddev
I think that Sean is on to something. Maybe it’s because I have sex with him on a regular basis. Sean is very good at that. In fact, we will probably be doing that again tomorrow. Oh yeah…. let the sexing begin….
Yes… I realize that that former comment of mine had nothing at all to do with AD. Sorry. Some things just need to be said.
yeah baby! boobies!!
jessica is stacked!!!
The boobies are waiting…. oh yes… they are…
Sean has a nice package
im a dirty birdy!! yay spooj!!!
im still sad about arrested development but it looks like im gonna get some so it turned out OK
You are going to get some Sean. Oh yes… you are
Oh, great…let them can a HILARIOUS, award winning show to make way for some other Reality CRAP!!!!!! I’m gonna boycott Fox!
Thank god they cancelled this trash!