Author Topic: Arrested Development (Read 99155 times)

Paul Tomkins · « **on:** September 29, 2004, 10:57:57 pm »

Anyone else see it tonight? The first episode was on BBC2 at 10 and then the second on BBC4 at 10.30.

It won the Emmy for the best US sitcom, and it's got some very funny moments in it. Not like your average US sitcom, a bit looser in tone and style - along the lines of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's about a family who genuinely hate each other - a rich family who lose all their money and how they cope (or don't).

Very much recommended.

hooded claw · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2004, 11:42:45 pm »

Missed it- too much bloody paperwork- but should be on BBC3 sometime? If it's anywhere near as good as Curb... it'll be top quality.
And it stars the Great Jeffrey Tambor from Larry Sanders, which is a good thing.........

Paul Tomkins · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2004, 08:09:44 am »

Quote from: hooded claw on September 29, 2004, 11:42:45 pm

And it stars the Great Jeffrey Tambor from Larry Sanders, which is a good thing.........

But without the moustache! (and he has a really weird upper lip!). I was trying to think where I knew him from...

hooded claw · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2004, 12:28:52 pm »

Quote from: paul_tomkins on September 30, 2004, 08:09:44 am

But without the moustache! (and he has a really weird upper lip!). I was trying to think where I knew him from...

He's got one of those faces hasn't he- but Hellboy and 'Hey Now...............!' hank Kingsley from the masterpiece that is larry Sanders are his best known roles I guess.
About time larry Sanders got a decent DVD release

$unny · « **Reply #4 on:** November 28, 2005, 07:25:51 pm »

I just had to say this is one of the funniest American comedy shows. Every Sunday i am in stitches! Did anyone see the two episodes last night?

*I didn't want to start another thread*

hooded claw · « **Reply #5 on:** November 28, 2005, 07:28:42 pm »

Quote from: $unny on November 28, 2005, 07:25:51 pm

I just had to say this is one of the funniest American comedy shows. Every Sunday i am in stitches! Did anyone see the two episodes last night?

*I didn't want to start another thread*

Nice one for bumping this. Just bought the S1 boxset and this one (S2) is out in Jan I think. It's just been cancelled in the US though, so enjoy it while you can.
Great episodes last night. 'Yeh yeh yeh, just ring it up with my dong tea'.
The one a few weeks back with Martin Short as their 'uncle' Jack was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

$unny · « **Reply #6 on:** November 28, 2005, 07:43:34 pm »

Cool name by the way! Maybe i should change mine to $unny Featherbottom.

It's been cancelled!!!?? Why? It's so funny. It is a great show.

I have so many fave moments/scenes from this show (although i missed most of the 1st series) but "I'm a monster!" cracks me up all the time.

What series is on now?

ElSheak · « **Reply #7 on:** November 28, 2005, 10:32:27 pm »

I've seen a few recently, its a bit odd (the social logistics of the family that is), but quite funny at times. I like the way its filmed.

hooded claw · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:31:15 pm »

Quote from: $unny on November 28, 2005, 07:43:34 pm

Cool name by the way! Maybe i should change mine to $unny Featherbottom.

It's been cancelled!!!?? Why? It's so funny. It is a great show. I have so many fave moments/scenes from this show (although i missed most of the 1st series) but "I'm a monster!" cracks me up all the time.

What series is on now?

This is S2. Sunny Featherbottom would be class

$unny · « **Reply #9 on:** December 7, 2005, 08:14:14 pm »

The last episode on sunday was hilarious! George Michael and his cousin...

Gob and Michael fighting.

I love this. I know what i want for crimbo/birthday.

Fitzy. · « **Reply #10 on:** December 9, 2005, 09:41:51 am »

This is a real hidden gem of a show. I'm about to buy the first series on Amazon. GREAT STUFF!!

hooded claw · « **Reply #11 on:** December 9, 2005, 10:01:32 am »

Quote from: Fitzyboy on December 9, 2005, 09:41:51 am

This is a real hidden gem of a show. I'm about to buy the first series on Amazon. GREAT STUFF!!

True. The Beeb have effectively fucked it by messing around the schedules (no episode one week, two the next, different slots) but like you say a gem is a gem. Got the boxset last month but waiting for the holidays to relax and enjoy it without work hassles. Series 2 on Amazon pre-order yet?

mrblast · « **Reply #12 on:** December 9, 2005, 01:11:37 pm »

This is one of the best comedies I have ever seen, I can't recommend it enough.

The US boxset of series 2 is already out by the way, I got it a while ago.

markcd · « **Reply #13 on:** December 9, 2005, 05:25:53 pm »

Michael: We’re brothers who shouldn’t be fighting. We cannot afford to lose each other, okay?

G.O.B.: I can’t. I already lost a brother today.

Michael: Franklin?

G.O.B.: Well, I didn’t lose him, but he’s all puckered and white.

Michael: On the plus side, you can take him to lunch at the club now.

G.O.B.: That’s the exact kind of joke he would have loved!

Paul Tomkins · « **Reply #14 on:** December 9, 2005, 05:41:04 pm »

Quote from: markcd on December 9, 2005, 05:25:53 pm

Michael: We’re brothers who shouldn’t be fighting. We cannot afford to lose each other, okay?

G.O.B.: I can’t. I already lost a brother today.

Michael: Franklin?

G.O.B.: Well, I didn’t lose him, but he’s all puckered and white.

Michael: On the plus side, you can take him to lunch at the club now.

G.O.B.: That’s the exact kind of joke he would have loved!

Franklin is just class. Well, he was until he spent too long in the washing machine!

Can't believe it's been cancelled again. Just too unconventional for mainstream US tv. Should be taken up by HBO

hooded claw · « **Reply #15 on:** December 9, 2005, 05:53:13 pm »

Quote from: Paul Tomkins on December 9, 2005, 05:41:04 pm

Franklin is just class. Well, he was until he spent too long in the washing machine!

Can't believe it's been cancelled again. Just too unconventional for mainstream US tv. Should be taken up by HBO

Franklin is superb

As far as being taken up by another network goes, that's the hope. Apparently the high production costs might put many off, but HBO have a fantastic track record recently of good investment into the right programmes.

Paul Tomkins · « **Reply #16 on:** December 9, 2005, 08:30:15 pm »

Quote from: Dr. Tobias Fünke on December 9, 2005, 05:53:13 pm

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hooded claw · « **Reply #17 on:** December 9, 2005, 08:32:58 pm »

Edited for your clarification and viewing pleasure. Arse

Paul Tomkins · « **Reply #18 on:** December 9, 2005, 08:56:07 pm »

Quote from: Dr. Tobias Fünke on December 9, 2005, 08:32:58 pm

Edited for your clarification and viewing pleasure. Arse

I was trying to think what fraa was an acronym for...

$unny · « **Reply #19 on:** December 9, 2005, 09:00:08 pm »

Talking of Franklin..i just remembered that song that Gob recorded! It's such a clever funny comedy. Shame it's been cancelled

. Was there a 3rd series?

hooded claw · « **Reply #20 on:** December 9, 2005, 09:02:59 pm »

Quote from: $nowy on December 9, 2005, 09:00:08 pm

Talking of Franklin..i just remembered that song that Gob recorded! It's such a clever funny comedy. Shame it's been cancelled . Was there a 3rd series?

Fox benched the criminally low-rated show for the duration of November sweeps, and last month cut back the season order from 22 to 13 episodes. The news came after eight shows were already in the can, leaving production just five new episodes to wrap up the Bluth family saga.

At least on Fox. Producer Brian Grazer told CNN last week that he is working feverishly to move the sitcom to another home.

"I think we'll get picked up by some other network, possibly," he said. "You never know.

"I can't tell you anything other than I'm hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I'm optimistic."

markcd · « **Reply #21 on:** December 10, 2005, 08:10:44 pm »

I don't get why the BBC always do this. Larry Sanders, Seinfeld, anything half decent goes on in the middle of the night, to clear the decks for the 28th series of My Family, or some other shite...

On a slightly more upbeat note, how cool are these:

mrblast · « **Reply #22 on:** December 10, 2005, 08:15:48 pm »

where do you get those from^^^^^^^^?

I want one!

"Wife of Gob: I'm in love with your brother-in-law.
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth: You're in love with your own brother? The one in the army?
Wife of Gob: No. Your sister's husband.
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth: Michael? Michael!
Wife of Gob: No. That your sister's brother.
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth: No, I'm my sister's brother.You're in love with me? Me.
Wife of Gob: I'm in love with Tobias.
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth: My brother-in-law?
Wife of Gob: I know it can never be, so I'm leaving. I'm enlisting in the army.
George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth: To be with your brother?
Wife of Gob: No!"

$unny · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2005, 08:26:18 pm »

George Michael looks fat in this pic! I didn't know Michael and Lindsay are meant to be twins?

Oh and on BBC2 they showed an episode where George Michael was running for president or something..Anway in the 'next weeks episode' they showed clips of Gob being Steve Holts father. But that episode wasn't shown on BBC2 was it?

hooded claw · « **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2005, 09:05:27 pm »

Quote from: $unny on December 10, 2005, 08:26:18 pm

George Michael looks fat in this pic! I didn't know Michael and Lindsay are meant to be twins?

Oh and on BBC2 they showed an episode where George Michael was running for president or something..Anway in the 'next weeks episode' they showed clips of Gob being Steve Holts father. But that episode wasn't shown on BBC2 was it?

They do that all the time- show teaser clips which never actually materialise. I want one of those mugs, though

Paul Tomkins · « **Reply #25 on:** December 10, 2005, 09:11:13 pm »

Quote from: hooded claw on December 10, 2005, 09:05:27 pm

They do that all the time- show teaser clips which never actually materialise. I want one of those mugs, though

Yup. Although there were 22 episodes in the first series, only 18 in the 2nd...

hooded claw · « **Reply #26 on:** January 18, 2006, 05:24:38 pm »

Quote

FOX Entertainment president Peter Ligouri verbalized Tuesday what most observers had concluded some time ago: "Arrested Development" is all but finished on the network.

Speaking to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Ligouri conceded that it's "highly unlikely" the Emmy-winning but low-rated series will see another season on FOX. The final four episodes of this season will air in a two-hour block Friday, Feb. 10.

Ligouri says a final decision on the show won't be made until after the network has a better idea of its development slate for next season, but there's not a great deal of wiggle room in that "highly unlikely" statement. He does say, though, that he regrets the series, which won the best comedy Emmy in 2004, never found "the audience it deserves."
The show has averaged only about 4.2 million viewers this season, but that hasn't stopped other networks from expressing interest in "Arrested" should FOX officially cancel it. ABC and Showtime have reportedly put offers on the table for the series, which is produced by FOX sibling 20th Century Fox TV.

Ligouri says he's not involved with those discussions, but "it is in fact a studio property. If there's interest at other networks, it's the studio's right and [creator Mitch Hurwitz's] right to move that on and put that up to bid."

Ligouri also expects "Arrested Development" to take a few jabs at FOX in the final episodes. The show has subtly (and not so subtly) bit the hand that feeds it in the past.

"It would be really duplicitous of us as a network to put a dampening effect on the great art of the spoof. We have a good relationship with the showrunners. I think it is great humor to turn it back on FOX a bit. And I think we've made fun of ourselves consistently."

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|99594|1|,00.html

archt_marj14 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 9, 2006, 03:57:41 pm »

This needs to be bumped to the 1st page cos I absolutely love this show!

By far the best American sitcom I've followed since Frasier. The writing is superb and the cast chemistry is off the roof.

The Bluth family is so twisted, warped, dysfunctional and multi-dimensional-- They're absolutely wicked!

My fave scenes always include the G.O.B.-Michael tandem. Spread the Brotherly love!

I just wish FOX would finalize the cancellation already so that the show could move to another network. Series 4 must be shown ASAP!

hooded claw · « **Reply #28 on:** February 9, 2006, 04:14:23 pm »

Hopefully someone will pick up the chance to buy the rights, though it won't come cheap. My favourite scene- Series 2, Uncle Jack- 'Swoop Me!'

archt_marj14 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2006, 05:08:11 pm »

^Showtime and ABC are both reportedly interested in picking the show up for at least one season--but not more than 13 episodes. Boo.

Whenever I think of Uncle Jack I automatically remember the scene
"To the nuts!"

afc tukrish · « **Reply #30 on:** February 10, 2006, 06:23:42 pm »

Quote from: hooded claw on February 9, 2006, 04:14:23 pm

Hopefully someone will pick up the chance to buy the rights, though it won't come cheap. My favourite scene- Series 2, Uncle Jack- 'Swoop Me!'

Quote from: archt_marj14 on February 10, 2006, 05:08:11 pm

^Showtime and ABC are both reportedly interested in picking the show up for at least one season--but not more than 13 episodes. Boo.

Whenever I think of Uncle Jack I automatically remember the scene
"To the nuts!"

saw this on Ami-Yahoo today, it's from USA Today

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/showtimeorabccouldgetarrested;_ylt=AlHftAZRF1V2xQucAmjJIHiuGL8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI-

fingers crossed for you, Claw, but no accounting for your taste in telly...

Buster 'Hook Hand' Bluth · « **Reply #31 on:** February 10, 2006, 06:28:21 pm »

I think it needs to be on Channel 4 at 10pm as well - sick of BBC doing a 'Seinfeld' with it and shunting all over the late shift schedules.

archt_marj14 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 16, 2006, 04:58:15 pm »

The show is officially over.

Buster 'Hook Hand' Bluth · « **Reply #33 on:** February 17, 2006, 12:16:36 pm »

Quote from: archt_marj14 on February 16, 2006, 04:58:15 pm

The show is officially over.

Link?

hooded claw · « **Reply #34 on:** April 30, 2006, 01:18:33 pm »

Just seen the last few episodes of S3. Some of the funniest episodes of the whole run, IMO- Tobias' attempts to make his marriage work are doomed to failure

hooded claw · « **Reply #35 on:** September 14, 2006, 10:31:22 pm »

Bit of a bump for this.

It's being re-run on Bravo late in the evenings- 11.00-12.00 I think. One of the best written, sharpest and cleverest comedies for years, perhaps ever.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #36 on:** September 14, 2006, 10:48:00 pm »

The great thing about AD is it's rewatchability. There is so much going on, it's near impossible to get it all in the first viewing. Expecially the last few episodes. They knew they were getting cancelled and threw everything in. Hectic, and thoroughly enjoyable.

The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society · « **Reply #37 on:** September 14, 2006, 10:57:52 pm »

never seen this, always miss it when it's on. when's it on?

hooded claw · « **Reply #38 on:** September 14, 2006, 11:16:38 pm »

Quote from: The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society on September 14, 2006, 10:57:52 pm

never seen this, always miss it when it's on. when's it on?

Few nights a week on Bravo, at 10.00pm. It's superb stuff- there are tiny references between episodes- sometimes between whole series- both backwards and forwards. You can watch it 3,4,5 times and still notice new angles and layers. It's genius.

The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society · « **Reply #39 on:** September 14, 2006, 11:19:34 pm »

Quote from: hooded claw on September 14, 2006, 11:16:38 pm

Few nights a week on Bravo, at 10.00pm. It's superb stuff- there are tiny references between episodes- sometimes between whole series- both backwards and forwards. You can watch it 3,4,5 times and still notice new angles and layers. It's genius.

not on terrestrial or freeview then