Arrested Development Producer Says We'll See 17 More Episodes of the Show

[Hurmoth]

 

Get away, get away from your pessimistic notion that Arrested Development is dead. Producer Brian Grazer says there's more Bluth family drama on the horizon.

 

Sitting down with Bill Simmons on the B.S. Report podcast, Grazer let it slip that at least one more season of the show is currently in development. "I love Arrested Development, but it was never a huge thing," Grazer explained. "But people are loyal to it. We're going to do another 17 episodes, so stay tuned for Arrested Development." What doesn't come up is Netflix's involvement

[ctebah]

Great news, I love this show.

[red.]

Huge fan of the show but i'm not sure about this...hope it's better than season 4.

[Brendeth]

As long as they can make sure all the cast is available to film at the same time then I'm okay with this.

[Syanide]

I do hope they go back to the old format.

[Hurmoth]

New Arrested Development likely coming to Netflix mid-2016, producer says

 

Netflix wants more episodes of Arrested Development, and it's apparently going to get them pretty soon. Speaking on Adam Carolla's podcast today, series executive producer Brian Grazer said that he expects production on new episodes to begin next January or February, with new episodes arriving about four months after that. "Netflix is determined to do more episodes, so we're gonna do more episodes," Grazer said. "We're gonna do it the turn of the year." That's certainly an aggressive timeline, though it's possible that work has started already. Grazer stated earlier this year that 17 new episodes were being made.

 

All of the show's lead actors are said to be on board again, although it sounds like the series may still run into trouble with scheduling. "Everyone's become a star ... so we've gonna juggle all these schedules," Grazer said. Having to juggle schedules led to much of the series' initial Netflix revival feeling disconnected, because actors frequently weren't filmed together. One would hope that the producers have learned from that, but there's only so much they can do given how much success the show's cast has found.

 

Still, it sounds like the new season is actually happening. Grazer said that he just spoke with Fox, which produces the show, and series creator Mitch Hurwitz this morning. "I made the call to Mitch to say that everybody's into it," Grazer says.

 

When Grazer says "everybody," he means all of the Hollywood names involved in making this happen. But it wouldn't be very wrong to say that flat out everybody is into it. Even if Arrested Development season four was a bit rocky, the show has three seasons that are so strong, it's hard not to want more

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/2/8714313/arrested-development-new-season-netflix-2016-producer-says

[Syanide]

If they can't do it in the old format, and wrap up the storylines, they might as well not do it. You can see how season 4 was written around the schedules and the availability of the actors, and it suffered for it.

[Dick Montage]

Did not enjoy the last season

[Elliot B.]

Any updates?

[Syanide]

On 28.2.2017. at 11:14 PM, Elliot B. said:

Any updates?

Couple of months ago someone close to the show (a producer or something) said everyone was on board and an announcement was supposed to come shortly after that, but it's been almost two months since that and no word. So same old, someone says something, then there's no news for months, until the next rumor.

 

I think the show is dead. Even if they manage to align everyone's schedules and start shooting this year, I don't see how they could release it before 2018. And even if they release it in 2018, it will mark a 5 year break since season 4. Just for comparison, there was a 7 year break between seasons 3 and 4, and they spent half the season filling in the missing time to catch up on everyone.

 

They really shouldn't have even bothered reviving it if they couldn't have made sure that they'd be able to wrap it up. Season 4 sucked, but ending it on a bunch of cliffhangers just added insult to injury.