'Arrested' developments

TelevisionWeek (from which I also stole the headline) is reporting that both ABC and Showtime have offered the producers of "Arrested Development"  deals to continue the series on their networks.  And it's all above board because when Fox reduced this season's order from 22 to 13 episodes, "the reduction triggered a clause in the show's contract enabling producers to shop the series elsewhere," sayeth TVWeek.  The producers are said to be "mulling both offers," a one-year deal from ABC and a two-year deal from Showtime, part of the CBS fambly.

Comments

[Mark Jeffries]

If I were Brian Grazer and L'il Opie, I'd take the Showtime deal. "Emily" and "Jake" seem to indicate to me that ABC has no idea how to handle one-camera sitcoms and I don't see "AD" coming out of "According to Jim" or "Dancing With the Stars." (Remember that an "Idol" lead-in didn't do anything for "AD" on Fox.) And is the show couldn't cut it on Fox, how could it cut it on the infinitely more mainstream ABC? At least Showtime has offered them a guaranteed two years on the air, a potentially more compatible lead-in with "Weeds" and the hope that now that Les Moonves controls the channel, he's not going to start meddling.

[Dave Ryan]

Any news is good news for Arrested Development. Thanks for sharing that. I blog about AD continuously.

I want to rerad the souces of all this and I want it to be true. People are blogging about this but noone is citing a legit source. I'm trying to check out TV Week.