I don’t blame FOX either. I was getting excited that before Season 2, FOX was promoting the HELL out of it. Everywhere you turned, there was an Arrested Development commerical. I was thinking that finally people would start tuning in. What a difference an Emmy makes! But people still didn’t watch it :(.
FOX kept it for as long as it could. Though I would like to thank the Emmy’s for probably giving the show a second chance. Though damn that Desperate Housewives for saying they were a “Comedy”. If that hadn’t happened, Arrested Development would have won 2 straight Emmys for best comedy. :mad:
So are they going to show all the episodes remaining starting in Dec.?? Or continue shooting until they’ve hit 13?? If they haven’t written the last episode yet, you know it’s going to be a doozy.
7th Heaven has been on for 10 years??!!?? Sheesh. I’ve never even heard of it.
I don’t have cable, so I don’t get f/x…so, don’t put it there! I think Fox did an all right job, it’s just America is too dumb for this.
No, viewership plummeted. Blaming FOX is foolish – they promoted the show relatively well at the beginning, they promoted the hell out of it the summer after S1 and into S2, and they promoted it very strongly before S3 as well. And no one watched it. It’s an infcredibly expensive show to produce (huge cast, shot on digital, single camera, many sets, etc.) This is a disappointment, but it’s nt FOX’s fault, and it shouldn’t be a surprise.
Indeed, given how well the FOX people tried to market the show, I think they’re all a bunch of tremendous pussies.
What if…
We could put on an ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT show in my uncle’s barn! I can make the costumes, and Eve can do the lighting and we can all go out and sell tickets…
AD’s own structure may make it hard to market. The gags are too complicated for five-second soundbites:
Patricia: C’mon, Ray, eating healthy can help you live longer.
Raymond: [watches Frank walk in] Long enough to turn into that? [laugh track goes into psychotic hysterics]
Ir doesn’t really help if they take away the opening credits that identify the relationships of the various characters (“his mother”, “his older brother” etc.) Best case is some kind of Star Trek like success in syndication and a revival in a few years.
That article doesn’t say anything the other one didn’t. It just says “cancelled” instead of ‘it’s clear from what’s happened that it’s going to be cancelled.’ Not that it matters much; the writing - or in this case, the blue handprints - is on the wall.
One other thing I noticed in “Notapusy:” yeah, that’s Tony Hale (Buster) in “A Thoroughly Polite Dust-Up,” and not only is he wearing chin putty, he seems to have Tobias’s moustache.
not gonna go back and read all 3 pages, but I think these were missed. I watched it again last night and caught a lot more.
When they’re all sitting around the table with Bob Loblaw, he says ‘I think someone is wired, has a bug’…the next camera cut has one of those long boom mics barely visible at the top of the screen.
When Rit’a dad is visible behind her, he’s brushing his teeth and taking breaks so he can smoke at the same time. Then later Rita says "Let’s go now (married) before my dad takes a cigarette break from his shower’
And of course I just died again when I saw the Tobias and George Michael crashing into each other at the end. Unreal. Best scene of the year. And I love how Michael, so straightfaced, says “All right, no surprise there” when Tobias takes off the mole head.
Great show, indubitably. Can’t wait for the dvd I’m getting for xmas.
Next time, you should try reading the thread, instead of just assuming no one has mentioned the things you’ve noticed. All three of those have been mentioned.
Of course it was cancelled, because I liked it. Every show I like is cancelled - Family Guy, Futurama, The Lone Gunmen, that one with the guy who had the nano-robots in his body and he could control computers and things, that matrix-style show where they were fighting a war inside a fake world…ok some of these I really shouldn’t admit to liking!
I guess there’s no market for shows where people have to actually use their own brain cells. But with the internet now there’s really no motivation to watch mind-numbing TV anymore, the networks are lucky if I see one show a night. They need to realize (as newspapers are discovering by their recent decline in subscribers by up to 15%) that people have other forms of news and entertaintment now, and markets for shows have to be more selective. WE ARE A VERY IMPORTANT NICHE and we are constantly neglected!
You will be missed AD, you were probably the #1 show of all my shows to be cancelled that I don’t want to see go.
Any chance that the show somehow picks up ratinging in the last few episodes or that the DVD sales pick up even more? Buy! Damn it Buy!!!
Or perhaps if enough people sign up on the Fox Arrested development news letter they may think they have enough viewers to keep it going…Soemthing tangible they would recognize as larger support for the program than the Nielsen’s show!
No I don’t want it to go… please don’t let it go!!!
it’s really over isn’t it?
Well hopefully the writers get to go out on a high note and it actually get’s aired.
sigh…
Walks away dejected to the sounds of “Christmas Time”