The Best Comedy Emmy and Best Actor - Comedy Golden Globe awards are high-profile catagories. The Best Animated Series award is not -- it's not even televised. You can't equate the two.


Also Futurama lasted four seasons, AD is of course just a sophmore show now.

I watched every episode at least twice this season. This is the only show I've ever done that with.

Correct. A better comparison would have been Sports Night(lasted 2 seasons). Not sure how many it won, but I do remember it winning one long after it had been cancelled.

Re: Hi Def thing. I love my HD, but if SD is the only way to go for AD, as long as it is on, I don't care. I will buy the dvd's, so when I watch it then I can enjoy a nice crisp anamorphic transfer.

The show is too freakin complicated to get an increased audience. Any weirdo can follow a simple cartoon, or get used to a sitcom with the same characters, but this show is like a mini movie every episode. Imagine not catching Lost or Twin Peaks at the beginning and trying to follow it or getting others to watch. Very intimdating. I myself did not start watching till halfway through the first season. They had a 6 show marathon one Sunday and I was able to catch up by taping it. But I would avoid watching it before that, because it looked like there was lots going on that I was always missing.

Truth of the matter is the show is designed to be a lot more complicated than it is. It reminds me of the sitcom Soap where every show would being with a "Previously on" clip and end with a "Next time on" clip. So people who have watched from the start would keep watching and others would not want to get into it so far in. (Not to mention they need a narrator for the whole 20 minutes to keep from getting lost)

Emmys arent that big a deal for audiences particularly people who watch Fox. I think the Ben Stiller show was also on Fox and won their Emmy after they had been cancelled. If a show wins one that I never watched I dont automatically give it a chance, just like hearing what the No. 1 movie is doesnt make me want to see it , but actually makes me avoid it.
Things are always getting prematurely cancelled, there was that one Tonight Show where Carson was talking about the year that every Emmy winner was a cancelled show. If it's cut, it's theyre loss and everyone else's. If it gets saved they have to find a way to get people to watch or it'll always be on the verge until they find a show that gets better ratings because people are really stupid.

I think the problem, from the beginning, is they're on Fox, a network that's biggest audience is on cartoons and reality shows. But I wouldnt be too sure another network is the answer. Any other night or time AD would be put on, would result in the same, or lower ratings. (Family Guy got lucky because it's cheap to produce so the ratings it originally got 5 YEARS ago that were so abysmal it had to be dropped, suddenly look not so bad.)

And the producers of this show are the same producers of Sports Night who also got critical acclaim and never passed a 2nd season.
I have no solution myself except for what they did for all those shows that no one watched for the first 2 seasons and ended up running for years, like Seinfeld, MASH, Cheers, All in the Family, Raymond: reruns, reruns, reruns.

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristi...05/050513.html

I mean come on!

[GREAT] News to this effect was also reported on TVGuide.com.

I forget what they call it, but there's an industry thing where they announce the shows for the fall.

Twins? TWO seasons? Say it is so! (I shan't get my hopes up just yet though)

Upfronts will be when they lay it all out and anounce what they got in store. Two seasons would be great news.

So just wait till May 19th for all the info on all this.

Do you know if they will ever have the group Arrested Development play on the show?

A new Star Wars movie AND [hopefully] this....say it ain't so..

oh please oh please oh please.....

I thought that this was going to be another useless thread bump, so I didn't have my hopes up. Glad I was wrong. Today is starting out pretty good so far.

I don't see how/why with the ratings the way they are that they would renew for 2 seasons. Don't get me wrong I want all I can get, but business-wise it doesn't make any sense.

A broadcast network renewing a show for two seasons because of quality over ratings?

It kind of does actually. I believe the season one dvd has sold very well, and I think they are trying to get it to the magical syndication numbers, as it would probably do better there. They might even anticipate it doing better in the third season, and instead of going though negotiations every season they might as well make them now. That doesn't mean the show will make it though.

This is not confirmed either, so we will see.

Maybe "twins" means they are renewing AD and doing a spin-off. It could be about Henry Winkler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus opening a law practice together!

OK, maybe not.

To be called: Justice is Blind

What a terrible idea. The last thing we need on television is another lawyer drama.

I'm glad AD was renewed. Although I wish the same broadcast network would have renewed Firefly due to quality over ratings. Oh well, at least the movie (Serenity) is coming out this year.

Yay!

Woo!

Seems like some people missed the second half of the article:

Though they're still dotting I's and crossing T's on the final documents, I'm told Fox network and 20th Century Fox studio are "99.9 percent of the way there" to reaching an agreement on the new season. According to these highly placed sources, it looks very likely that Arrested Development will be coming back not only for a full season of 22 episodes but actually two full seasons of 22 episodes. How freaking fantastic is that?

If I have more AD come this fall, I'll forgive FOX for all of their TV screwups in the past, every single one of them.

I can't put into words how excited this has me now, so I wont even try.

never count your chickens. Someone posted in the upfront schedule, Fox's summer schedule DOES NOT include AD. Why did they not include AD when summer is a great opportunity to get new viewers? Are they hinting at a move to FX?

I don't think AD was on the FOX summer schedule last year.