If you've been looking for a reason to renew your Neflix subscription, this is it. The fourth season of Arrested Development will be released exclusively through the site's streaming service starting in 2013, Deadline is reporting.
20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television will bring the show's long-awaited fourth season to Netflix, “Arrested Development is one of the finest American comedies in TV history and its return through Netflix is a perfect example of how we are working closely with studios and networks to provide consumers with entertainment they love,” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos in a statement. “It’s also a perfect example of how broad and successful our relationship has become with Fox as we work together with their film, television, international and digital divisions on several exciting initiatives."
Arrested Development's fourth season will reportedly feature various members of the Bluth family and where they've been since the show originally went off the air in 2006.
Noting that Arrested Development "has stood the test of time," 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman added, “We also pride ourselves on breaking the rules at this studio, and after bringing back two canceled series – ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Futurama’—to enormous success, we are bullish on the prospects for this brilliant series. We can’t wait to get back to work with Mitch [Hurwitz], Ron [Howard] and Brian [Grazer] on bringing the Bluths back to America’s living rooms."
Executive producer and narrator Ron Howard added, "After a long hiatus, I’m dying to finally get back to the narrator’s microphone…’It’s Arrested…Development.’"
When we last saw the Bluths back in the third season finale "Development Arrested," Michael (Jason Bateman) and his son George Michael (Michael Cera) had travelled to Cabo to escape their selfish family, only to find that Michael's father, George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), had hitched a ride. Meanwhile, Michael's niece Maeby (Alia Shawkat) had visited the real Ron Howard to pitch her family's story as a television series. Howard had then uttered the last words of the series: "Maybe a movie."
Arrested Development will finally return in 2013. What do you think? Will you be getting a Netflix account just to watch the series? I know I will be.
Guess I have to get netflix in a few years