As a huge AD fan im stoked to see any positive news regarding the show.
Id call 2 new episodes very positive. I see your point Groucho, about them dumping the episodes to finish things. Frankly no matter how much us uberfans LOVE the show, its numbers have just not been good and i dont see Fox keeping anything that they dont perceive as making them alot of money on the air. If and when they decide to pull the AD plug, i will be bummed as bummed can be, buuuut will be thankful that we even got a S3
(partial or full - time will tell) as this show might have ended w S2.

I cant believe more people dont love this show - the layered humor, the amazing references to other parts of the show, the background stuff, theres sooooo much. I suppose most TV viewers want stupid predictable simple setup sitcoms. Sad.

Well im off to see my analysist/thereapist.

yeah, I think the two-fer is just to make up for all the baseball and doesn't necessarially mean they're rushing it to it's end......although with Fox you never know. hopefully the dvd sales will send them a message to keep it alive (as well as bring some new viewers in)

Hey, if the president of the network is behind the show, that can't be a bad thing. I think if they are going to pull the plug, I think, based on his comments about the show, he would allow them to do some kind of send off.

Does this mean there arent any new eps till November?

According to Charlize Theron on Conan's show, new eps will be back on Nov 7th.

D

Breaking News -- AD will be back after playoffs.

No, I don't have a link -- the elevators in my building have those TV screens that cycle through the day's headlines and news stories. One of the stories on the ride up from lunch was that Fox executives had announced that despite low ratings and contrary to rumors, Arrested Development will be back after baseball is over. The story was sourced to Entertainment Weekly, though I couldn't find anything on the EW (or any other) website.

I found a link

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=192

Sure, if you want to be that way ...

I didn't mean to be rude. It's good news and I am happy. There's two episodes the night it comes back, as well.

Nice, just when I was starting to like this season.

No worries -- I didn't think you were rude at all. I should have put one of these guys ---> at the end of my post.

Cant' wait!! They need to show Season 1 and 2 reruns every night somewhere. Fox is known for their scheduling holes.Before the season started, I saw it on and 1 am before Just Shoot Me reruns. How is that supposed to help build up an audience?

Any word on how well the DVDs have sold? I have not bought my season 2 yet, but I will this weekend, and hopefully this will show Fox that it is a show with a following. Maybe we need to go the L. Ron Hubbard route and every fan buy several copies of the Season sets and then give them as gifts or resell them on ebay, then the sales numbers look great.

Currently #4 on Amazon.

Hate to say it, but since I just re-watched season two 3 weeks ago off the DVR, the dvd purchase is on hold since I won't be re-watching it for some time.

Just picked up my copy of Season 2 - even though I saw a lot of those episodes recently, I love the show and I'll watch them again, and I want to be supportive of keeping it on the air.

I do too, that is why I might order a shirt or something off the website instead.

I couldn't find season two at Best Buy... the shelf where it was supposed to be was empty except for one copy of Season 1... then I looked around and found a whole bunch of them on a cart that was waiting to be stocked, kind of hidden away from the DVDs.

I hope this means the first batch sold out, and not that they are just getting around to stocking it on Friday when it came out on Tuesday

I picked up my copy of season 2 today, and thanks to Reward Zone and McDonalds I only paid $12. It was hard to find, on the bottom of a shelf and they only had a few copies left, and I found no copies of season 1.

new eps on oct 31 according to the website.... but answer me this...where is AD on fox's January schedule? it's not there (either is prison break, which we know has been picked up, so maybe it's just an error...but, you never know).... should we start worrying?

MATT

No, it hasn't been on the January schedule since before the season started.

Fox never planned on airing Arrested Development in the winter season, just like they didn't air American Idol or 24 in the fall part of the season. They are trying a split shift thing. They could in theory continue to do this year after year, which I realize is probably still wishful thinking. The reality is the season really begins for Fox in January. With Idol back Fox is a contender again, and the ratings stakes get raised. Frankly I'd be more worried if AD was on the schedule in that time period because it would put it in even greater danger of outright cancellation. Just IMO.

True, but when does Fox plan on airing the rest of the eps... if they have a full season order, even with new episodes every week for november/december, we get nowhere near a full season of shows...so what's the plan?

MATT

picked up season 2 at Sams for $26
Are all the cases wrinkled?

mine was not.



Does anyone know if it'll be back early if the World Series ends early? I bet they'd go with another episode of Prison Train or whatever it's called. I guess that since they've announced that it'll return Nov 7, they'll stick to that, but maybe they'll play the three earlier episodes or something.