Yeah. That was the deal.

ABC was offering Hurtz and Company one season consisting of 13 episodes with no budget constraints.

Showtime was offering Hurtz and Company two seasons consisting of 13 episodes each, but, there would be budget constraints.

Those who have "G.O.B." as a "friend" on Myspace may have received this bulleting today:

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7307/gob2gn.jpg
(link on network/channel goes to http://www.sho.com/ )


I'm guessing a bulletin just goes straight to someone's "friends" at the moment it is sent, and that it doesn't get posted anywhere...

Anyway, if you want to be his friend: http://www.myspace.com/GOB_Bluth

That's not Will Arnett. That's just someone who created an account named G.O.B. Bluth.

whos the "super thin chick with huge cans" this guy speaks of?

I keep arguing with friends who tell me that AD has already been picked up. I keep telling them that absolutely nothing is official yet. It's all just rumors, but they certainly are good signs that a deal is close.

wtf. haha

I just read the news about Showtime Home Ent. being folded into CBS this summer, and all their titles being distributed by Paramount.

The whole merger thing is so confusing to me with the dozens of titles and companies, so does this affect AD in any way, either being picked up or the dvd rights?

I heard it on Wednesday on a radio station in Dallas. The reported it as truth. Showtime. 2 years, 26 eps.

I came straight to DVDTalk TV Talk and found nothing concrete.

So I wait....


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Where are all these radio stations getting this information if none of the entertainment shows/magazines and no websites are reporting it as such?

I know my friend who works as a DJ said that she saw it on one of her Entertainment wires and so she reported it on air. But I work for a newspaper, so I get an Entertainment wire as well, but I have seen nothing concrete come over. So to answer your question, I don't know where they are getting this information. :shrug:

http://www.zap2it.com/news/zap-pilot...news-headlines

'Arrested' Star Hale Has Backup Plan
Tucci, McCarthy also cast in pilots
March 15 2006

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Tony Hale

LOS ANGELES -- Even if "Arrested Development" doesn't find a second life on Showtime or elsewhere, Tony Hale may not lack for work next season.

Hale is set to co-star with Andy Richter in the NBC pilot "Andy Barker, P.I.," in which Richter plays an accountant-turned-private eye. His name is one of several familiar ones in the latest pilot castings; others include "Big Night" co-directors Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott in projects at CBS and ABC, Marla Sokoloff and Josh Cooke in an ABC comedy and Andrew McCarthy in the CBS drama "The Way."

For Hale, "Andy Barker" is in the proverbial second position to "Arrested Development," Variety reports. Should "Arrested" find life after FOX -- Showtime is considered the prime contender to pick up the show -- Hale would reprise his role as Buster Bluth, and the NBC project would be recast.

Tucci, soon to be seen in "Lucky Number Slevin" and "The Devil Wears Prada," has signed on to star in a CBS drama about brain surgeons from writer Peter Ocko. It's the second go-round for the pilot, which was called "3 Lbs." last development season; in that version, Dylan McDermott played Tucci's character, a gifted but unpredictable doctor.

It will be the first TV work for Tucci since the short-lived TNT show "Bull" in 2000. He also starred on "Murder One" in the mid-'90s.

Tucci's long-time buddy Scott, meanwhile, has joined the cast of ABC's "Six Degrees," a drama about the intersecting lives of six New Yorkers. He'll appear opposite his frequent co-star Hope Davis ("The Secret Lives of Dentists," "Duma") in the project.

"The Way" is about a powerful New England family that dabbles in witchcraft to help maintain its status. McCarthy, who's appeared in several episodes of NBC's "E-Ring" this season, will star opposite Julia Ormond. He also starred in ABC's "Kingdom Hospital" in 2004.

Finally, Sokoloff ("The Practice") and Cooke ("Committed") will play about-to-be-newlyweds in ABC's "A Day in the Life," a comedy about the couple's wedding day that's told from various points of view. Their casting may be an ominous sign for their current shows -- Cooke stars on NBC's "Four Kings," and Sokoloff is a regular on The WB's "Modern Men," which debuts later this week.


So, I guess even the actors don't know at this point what's happening.

Chris

Regardless Tony Hale will always be Buster to me. :(

Buster is a great character, but he's still "Mr. Roboto Singing Guy" to me.

Will Buster get a better hand prosthesis for this PI show? :confused: