Arrested Development confirmed to return to Netflix for a fifth series

The Bluths are back for a new series of the award-winning show 
New series: the entire Arrested Development cast will be back for the new shows
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Netflix confirmed that it will be producing a fifth series of family comedy show Arrested Development which will air on subscription service in 2018.

The entire cast will be returning for the new series including Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross and Alia Shawkat.

Arrested Development fans have been waiting a long time for confirmation of the show’s return since the fourth series ended in 2013, with various cast-members and writer Mitch Hurwitch teasing that a new set of episodes was in the works.

In a statement Hurwitz said that he was “grateful” to Netflix for “making this […] dream come true”.

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“In talks with Netflix we all felt that that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving family in the building business — and their desperate abuses of power — are really underrepresented on TV these days,” joked Hurwitz, comparing the Bluths to another famous family we hear a lot about these days.

“I am so grateful to them and to 20th TV for making this dream of mine come true in bringing the Bluths, George Sr., Lucille and the kids; Michael, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, George-Michael, and who am I forgetting, oh Tiffany. Did I say Tiffany? — back to the glorious stream of life.”

Arrested Development first aired on Fox from 2003-2006 before Netflix revived the show as one of its first original series in 2013.

The show will return to Netflix in 2018.

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