Fox Bids Farewell To Arrested Development
November 14, 2005 11:01 a.m. EST

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Fox gives the Emmy-award winning "Arrested Development" the axe.

Officially, Arrested, which just returned to Monday nights following a monthlong vacation for the baseball playoffs, had its order cut from the usual 22 episodes, down to 13. Eight installments have already been shot, meaning the company has five more episodes left before the final curtain.

"Everyone is pretty upbeat about it, actually," Bateman tells E! Online. "The last thing we wanted to happen was to overstay our welcome and tarnish the experience and prestige of the show."

Bateman says it would be a "complete shock" if Arrested were to be asked back for the 2006-07 season, as its chronically low ratings have gotten lower. From the start, the show has averaged just 4.2 million viewers.

Arrested Development premiered on Nov. 2, 2003 and has taken home six Emmys to date.

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I stopped watching it after that cousin attraction and kissing came into play.

It just started getting dull.

I never found the show funny, to be quite honest. But I didn't think it was doing that bad.

One of my top three favorite shows [along with LOST and The Office, I would include Firefly, but alas...], so I'm sad to see it go. I just can't understand how shows like The War at Home stay on, I have trouble watching a show with a laugh track. I think it's interesting that FOX is dumping an Emmy Award-winning show, and keeping shows like Prison Break.



And Kratos: "I stopped watching it after that cousin attraction and kissing came into play."

Well, keep in mind that it's comedy. I take it you don't watch South Park!

lol, I watch south park. Cardboard seems different from real life though.

Prison Break hasn't been on that long. It may win an Emmy, because it is one hell of an awesome show.

I don't get why Fox cancels all the good shows. This was seriously the best show ever. Fox did give them several chances, and I guess they got tired. This show had potential and everything needed to make an impressive series, except an audience. There's still a chance it could stay on the air, but I doubt it.

Like so many good shows, it has/will do well on DVD. And I haven't seen Prison Break, I dunno, I'm afraid of prisons.

Prison Breaks great, I've only missed one episode, but I was in Holland.

I like this show...but never throught it was..hilarious. But I did like it, much better than most crap on FOX.

I never liked Arrested Development, and I'm not sad to see it go at all. My sister likes the show Prison Break but it's not the type of show I like to watch. I'm into paranormal/docu crime drama's and some reality tv shows. I'm mostly watching A&E CBS and Teletoon and the Space Channel more than the other channels.

Its because it was on fox

But considering people like reality tv shows It's not surprising that a good show like Arrested Development is gone. Now all I have is scrubs and everybody hates chris.

Down under it was only aired at 11:30pm for awhile on one of our free-to-air channels but I doubt they even bother with it anymore. It wasn`t bad I thought but nothing that special in my opinion!

Fox cancels good shows like Arrested Development, yet continues to air the worst show I have ever seen,"The War At Home". The fox needs to be shot.

The War At Home ain't that bad. I've seen parts of it a few time and it was pretty funny. Theres worse shows on FOX. Believe me.