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Arrested Development stories: 11 news summaries
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 Best TV Series of the '00s 

Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, HBO prominently featured

Nov 13, 09 2:49 PM CST
(Newser) - From the standard (No. 16, Friday Night Lights) to the quirky (No. 29, Wonder Showzen), the long-running (No. 8, Lost) to the canceled-too-soon (No. 4, Freaks and Geeks), The Onion runs down the 30 best shows of the '00s:
  • No. 1, The Wire: This drama “unfolded like
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entertainment • television • Lost • The Office • The Sopranos • TV shows • Arrested Development • Judd Apatow • The Wire • TV series • Battlestar Galactica • The West Wing • Friday Night Lights • Undeclared • Wonder Showzen • Freaks and Geeks

 Relationships 
 That Wouldn't 
 Work in Reality 

Hollywood cooks up some screwed up matches

Nov 4, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood’s great at making us root for relationships that shouldn’t work. But some of them really shouldn’t work. The Nerve imagines if the following couples moved in next-door:
  • Beauty and the Beast: No, I’m not kissing a dog … he’s really a
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entertainment • television • Beauty and the Beast • Arrested Development • Dexter • movies • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Mad Men

DRUG CZAR IN TRAINING

I Snorted Coke 40 Feet From Obama at DC Dinner: Actor

David Cross, of Arrested Development fame, says he did it on a dare

Oct 22, 09 9:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - We’ve all done silly stuff on a dare, but probably not on the level of actor/author/comic/crazy guy David Cross, who says he snorted cocaine not 40 feet from President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (not, for the record, held at the White House). With cabinet secretaries, Supreme... More »

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Secret Service • cocaine • stand up comedy • Arrested Development • White House Correspondents Dinner • Obama administration • President Obama • David Cross • Amber Tamblyn

 Juno's Ellen Page 
 to Write Comedy 
 for HBO 

She'll team up with Alia Shawkat, Sean Tillman

Oct 8, 09 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ellen Page is expanding her horizons: the Juno and Whip It star will write and produce Stitch N’ Bitch, a new comedy for HBO. Page is collaborating with Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillman, also known as the musician Har Mar Superstar. The comedy centers on two hipster... More »

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HBO • Los Angeles • Brooklyn • comedy • Arrested Development • Ellen Page • Alia Shawkat • Sean Tillman

 Arrested Development 
 Film Held Up Yet Again 

Will Arnett's new sitcom to blame, but actor promises it's still on

Aug 31, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The good news: Will Arnett is teaming back up with Arrested Development writer Mitch Hurwitz on a new TV show. The bad news: That show is one of the reasons the Arrested film is still held up, he tells the New York Daily News. But the “... More »

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entertainment • film • celebrity • Arrested Development • sitcom • Will Arnett

TV preview

 This Fall's Top Guy Shows 


Aug 24, 09 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fall is right around the corner, and with it, thankfully, comes new TV. Esquire runs down the top shows men should be looking forward to:
  • Modern Family: A mockumentary in which the guy who played Al Bundy plays the head of three different families.
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entertainment • television • TV shows • Michael Strahan • Arrested Development • tv premiere • Sarah Silverman Program • Ed O'Neill

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge! 

Plus, Angie: hot or too skinny? It's anyone's guess.

Aug 11, 09 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oksana Grigorieva may be carrying Mel Gibson’s love child, but she wants “to be judged by my art, by my music,” she tells Reuters in her first interview. “How can I be judged for falling in love? We live in the same city. I don’t... More »

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entertainment • Angelina Jolie • American Idol • Brad Pitt • Japan • Simon Cowell • celebrity • Arrested Development • Beyonce • Mel Gibson • Jessica Simpson • love child • earthquake • Twitter • Will Arnett • Oksana Grigorieva

(Newser) - As the American Idol dust clears and you resign yourself to never understanding Lost, TV's fallow season looms, just begging you to catch up on some excellent viewing you might have missed. NPR blogger Linda Holmes has some suggestions:
  • Mad Men: "Works very well when you can
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television • American Idol • Lost • DVD • Netflix • Arrested Development • Hulu • Chuck • Mad Men • Starz • DVDs • Friday Night Lights • NewsRadio • Party Down

(Newser) - Fans of the family Bluth, rejoice. Michael Cera has signed on to the Arrested Development movie, reports E! Online. Details have been sketchy, but Cera—whose role as George-Michael Bluth on the show helped propel him to teen stardom in movies such as Superbad and Juno—had reportedly been the... More »

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television • Arrested Development • Michael Cera • movies

 Arrested 
 Development 
 Film Is a Go 

Rising star Cera is on board for adaptation

Jan 29, 09 11:24 AM CST
(Newser) - After years of rumors and crossed fingers, the Arrested Development movie is finally on, the New York Daily News reports. "The movie is going to happen this year, and Michael Cera is on board. Trust me," said Jeffrey Tambor, patriarch of the dysfunctional TV family. Cera, whose career... More »

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television • comedy • Arrested Development • Michael Cera • movies • Jeffrey Tambor

Quirk Is the
New Kitsch
(Sigh)

Atlantic writer traces the devolution of idiosyncrasy into idiocy

Aug 16, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Quirk is the “ruling sensibility” of today’s culture—random narrative, “mannered ingenuousness”—and it’s become exhausting, writes the Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn. “This American Life” has been the standard-bearer, but the quirk it purveys hasn't held up well in expanding from radio to TV. More »

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This American Life • culture • Wes Anderson • Arrested Development • Talking Heads • sentimentality • Generation X

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