Editing Arrested Development (section)

== Production ==
=== Conception ===
Discussion that led to the creation of the series began in the summer of 2002. [[Ron Howard]] had the original idea to create a [[television comedy|comedy series]] in the style of handheld cameras and reality television, but with an elaborate, highly comical script resulting from repeated rewritings and rehearsals. Howard met with [[David Nevins (television producer)|David Nevins]], the president of [[Imagine Television]], Katie O'Connell, a senior vice president, and two writers, including [[Mitchell Hurwitz]]. In light of recent [[accounting scandals|corporate accounting scandals]], such as [[Enron Corporation|Enron]] and [[Adelphia Communications Corporation|Adelphia]], Hurwitz suggested a story about a "riches to rags" family. Howard and Imagine were interested in using this idea, and signed Hurwitz to write the show. The idea was pitched and sold in Q3 2002. There was a bidding war for the show between Fox and NBC, with the show ultimately selling to Fox as a [[put pilot]] with a six-figure penalty.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lotz |first=Amanda |title=The Television Will Be Revolutionized |year=2007 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-5232-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/televisionwillbe0000lotz/page/231 231] |url=https://archive.org/details/televisionwillbe0000lotz|url-access=registration }}</ref>

Over the next few months, Hurwitz developed the characters and plot for the series. The script of the [[Pilot (Arrested Development)|pilot episode]] was submitted in January 2003 and filmed in March 2003. It was submitted in late April to [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] and was added to the network's fall schedule that May.<ref name="O'Connell">{{cite web |url=http://the-op.com/view/article.php?sect=2900&a=37 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604010723/http://the-op.com/view/article.php?sect=2900&a=37 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |title=Interview: Katie O'Connell |publisher=Balboa Observer-Picayune |date=November 24, 2005 |url-status=usurped |access-date=June 15, 2012}}</ref>

=== Casting ===
{{Main|List of Arrested Development cast members}}

[[Alia Shawkat]] was the first cast in the series.<ref name="O'Connell" /> [[Michael Cera]], [[Tony Hale]], and [[Jessica Walter]] were cast from video tapes and flown in to audition for Fox.<ref name="O'Connell" /> [[Jason Bateman]] and [[Portia de Rossi]] both read and auditioned for the network and were immediately chosen.<ref name="O'Connell" /> The character of Gob was the most challenging to cast.<ref name="nytimes"/> When [[Will Arnett]] auditioned, he played the character "like a guy who thought of himself as the chosen son, even though it was obvious to everyone else that he was the least favorite"; he was chosen immediately for his portrayal.<ref name=nytimes/> The characters of Tobias and George Sr. were originally going to have minor roles, but [[David Cross]] and [[Jeffrey Tambor]]'s portrayals mixed well with the rest of the characters, and they were given more significant parts.<ref name="O'Connell" /> Howard provided the narration for the initial pilot, and his narrating meshed so well with the tone of the program that the decision was made to keep his voice.<ref>{{cite video |url=http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ron-howard |title=Ron Howard Interview |publisher=Archive of American Television |time=12:56 |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512165550/http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ron-howard |url-status=live }}</ref> Howard aided in the casting of "Lucille 2"; the producers told him that their dream actress for the role was [[Liza Minnelli]] but that they assumed no one of her stature would take the part.<ref>{{cite video |url=http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ron-howard |title=Ron Howard Interview |publisher=Archive of American Television |time=14:31 |access-date=June 15, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512165550/http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ron-howard |url-status=live }}</ref> She agreed when Ron Howard asked her himself, because they were old friends; she had been his babysitter when she was a teenager.<ref>(2004-08-20). "Friends in high places", ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', p. 13.</ref>

=== Filming techniques ===
''Arrested Development'' uses several elements that were rare at the time for American live-action sitcoms. It was shot on location and in HD video (at 24 frames per second) with multiple cameras, parodying tactics often employed in documentary film and reality television, straying from the "fixed-set, [[studio audience]], [[laugh track]]" style long dominant in comedy production.<ref name="Lotz">{{cite book |last=Lotz |first=Amanda D. |title=The Television Will Be Revolutionized |year=2007 |publisher=NYU Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/televisionwillbe0000lotz/page/232 232]–33 |url=https://archive.org/details/televisionwillbe0000lotz |url-access=registration |isbn=978-0-8147-5232-6}}</ref> The show makes heavy use of [[Cutaway (filmmaking)|cutaway gags]], supplementing the narrative with visual punchlines like security camera footage, Bluth family photos, website screenshots, archive films, and flashbacks.<ref name=Lotz /> An omniscient third-person narrator (producer Ron Howard) ties together the multiple plot threads running through each episode, while humorously undercutting and commenting on the characters.<ref name="Mittell">{{cite book |last=Mittell |first=Jason |title="Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory", ''Intermediality and Storytelling'' |year=2010 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYUYCe-4neMC&pg=PA86 |isbn=978-3-11-023773-3}}</ref> ''Arrested Development'' developed [[Metafiction|self-referentiality]] through use of [[in-joke]]s that evolved over multiple episodes, which rewarded longtime viewership (and in turn may have discouraged new viewers and contributed to the show's ratings difficulties).<ref name=Lotz />

Because of scheduling conflicts,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heritage |first=Stuart |date=March 15, 2019 |title='A lumbering zombie': Arrested Development bows out on a low |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/15/arrested-development-bows-out-on-a-low-lumbering-zombie-netflix |access-date=March 26, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Northrup |first=Ryan |date=February 8, 2022 |title=Will Arnett Reflects On Arrested Development Season 4 & 5 Fan Backlash |url=https://screenrant.com/arrested-development-season-4-5-backlash-will-arnett/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |language=en |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212184715/http://screenrant.com/arrested-development-season-4-5-backlash-will-arnett/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the fourth season used a different format with longer episodes focusing on one character.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |last=Franich |first=Darren |date=May 7, 2018 |title=The 'Arrested Development' remix is impressive, but pointless: EW review |url=https://ew.com/tv/2018/05/07/arrested-development-season-4-remix-review/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326175826/https://ew.com/tv/2018/05/07/arrested-development-season-4-remix-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Matar |first=Joe |date=May 7, 2018 |title=Arrested Development Season 4 Remix Review: Fateful Consequences |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/arrested-development-season-4-remix-review-fateful-consequences/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |language=en-US |archive-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326175826/https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/arrested-development-season-4-remix-review-fateful-consequences/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The season was later re-edited to be more in line with the format of the other seasons.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=May 1, 2018 |title='Arrested Development' Season 4 Is Getting A Remix |url=https://deadline.com/2018/05/arrested-development-season-4-remix-release-mitch-hurwitz-1202380474/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=Deadline |language=en-US |archive-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326175826/https://deadline.com/2018/05/arrested-development-season-4-remix-release-mitch-hurwitz-1202380474/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Cancellation and revival ===
[[File:The Cast of Arrested Development does the Chicken Dance.jpg|thumb|250px|alt=Actors from ''Arrested Development'' dancing on a stage|The cast does the "chicken dance" at the ''Arrested Development'' reunion on October 2, 2011.]]

During the series' [[Arrested Development season 3|third season]] in 2006, despite months-long rumors of ''Arrested Development'' having been picked up by the cable television network [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/hurwitz-takes-a-hike-1117940467/ |title=Hurwitz takes a hike |last=Adalian |first=Josef |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=March 26, 2007 |access-date=July 29, 2007 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001312/https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/hurwitz-takes-a-hike-1117940467/ |url-status=live }}</ref> creator Hurwitz declined to move the show to another network.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/R-I-P-Arrested-Development-critics-fave-2500890.php |work=San Francisco Chronicle |title=R.I.P., Arrested Development |access-date=March 28, 2006 |first=Tim |last=Goodman |date=March 27, 2006 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001431/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/R-I-P-Arrested-Development-critics-fave-2500890.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Hurwitz said, "I had taken it as far as I felt I could as a series. I told the story I wanted to tell, and we were getting to a point where I think a lot of the actors were ready to move on."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2006/03/31/why-daddy-let-arrested-development-die |title='Development' Hell |last=Snierson |first=Dan |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=March 30, 2006 |access-date=October 26, 2007 |archive-date=September 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913102701/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1178690,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He said that he was "more worried about letting down the fans in terms of the quality of the show dropping" than he was about disappointing fans by not giving them more episodes. He also said, "If there's a way to continue this in a form that's not weekly episodic series television, I'd be up for it".

After the series cancellation, Fox Entertainment Group sold the initial 53-episode run for syndication. In a first for its kind, the syndication involved a three-year deal with [[Microsoft]]'s nascent internet video streaming service [[MSN Video]] (now Bing Video) before the series would go on to cable channel [[G4 (American TV network)|G4]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/arrested-development-in-internet-syndication-deal-1.584189 |title=Arrested Development in internet syndication deal |website=[[CBC.ca]] |date=July 27, 2006 |access-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115033346/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/arrested-development-in-internet-syndication-deal-1.584189 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On October 2, 2011, the cast of ''Arrested Development'' reunited for a panel at [[The New Yorker Festival]] in New York.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://video.newyorker.com/watch/arrested-development-a-bluth-reunion |title="Arrested Development": A Bluth Reunion |magazine=The New Yorker |date=May 1, 2013 |access-date=May 30, 2018 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001355/https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/arrested-development-a-bluth-reunion |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44597451 |title='Arrested Development' cast will reunite for festival |publisher=TODAY.com |first=Kimberly |last=Potts |date=September 20, 2011 |access-date=September 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926214742/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44597451/ns/today-entertainment/t/arrested-development-cast-will-reunite-festival/ |archive-date=September 26, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the panel, Hurwitz declared his intention of producing a truncated fourth season as a lead-in to a film adaptation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/03/a-new-season-of-arrested-development |title=A New Season of Arrested Development?! |last=Goldman |first=Eric |publisher=IGN |date=October 2, 2011 |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117001452/https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/03/a-new-season-of-arrested-development |url-status=live }}</ref>

Six years after the series had been canceled by Fox, filming for a [[Arrested Development season 4|fourth season]] began on August 7, 2012.<ref name="S4 production">{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/arrested-development-jason-bateman-photo_n_1752807.html |title='Arrested Development': Jason Bateman Tweets First Photo From Filming |work=The Huffington Post |date=August 7, 2012 |access-date=August 7, 2012 |first=Chris |last=Harnick |archive-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811142138/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/arrested-development-jason-bateman-photo_n_1752807.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Fifteen episodes of the show's revival season were released simultaneously on [[Netflix]] on May 26, 2013.<ref name="may26" /> Although it received generally favorable reviews,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/arrested-development/season-4/ |title=Arrested Development: Season 4 |website=Metacritic |access-date=July 21, 2024 }}</ref> it was far less well-received than prior seasons, leading Netflix to re-edit the season in 2018.<ref name=":0" /> Netflix confirmed on May 17, 2017,<ref>{{cite web |last=Sandberg |first=Bryn Elise |date=May 17, 2017 |title='Arrested Development' Officially Renewed for Season 5 at Netflix |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/arrested-development-officially-renewed-season-5-at-netflix-1004529 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517173227/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/arrested-development-officially-renewed-season-5-at-netflix-1004529 |archive-date=May 17, 2017 |accessdate=May 17, 2017 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> that a [[Arrested Development season 5|fifth season]] was expected to be released on its service in 2018, with filming taking place from August 2017 to November 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last=Elavsky |first=Cindy |date=August 20, 2017 |title=Celebrity Extra |url=http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2017-08-10/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/Good_news_about_Good_Behavior.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824012828/http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2017-08-10/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/Good_news_about_Good_Behavior.html |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |accessdate=August 23, 2017 |publisher=[[King Features]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Katie |date=November 16, 2017 |title=Alia Shawkat Says 'Arrested Development' Season 5 Is Done, Will Still Feature the Border Wall |url=https://www.moviefone.com/2017/11/16/alia-shawkat-arrested-development-season-5-done-border-wall/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090348/https://www.moviefone.com/2017/11/16/alia-shawkat-arrested-development-season-5-done-border-wall/ |archive-date=February 19, 2018 |accessdate=February 18, 2018 |website=Moviefone}}</ref> ''Arrested Development'' was set to be removed from Netflix on March 15, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=February 13, 2023 |title=Netflix Removing 'Arrested Development' |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/netflix-removing-arrested-development-original-seasons-1235521721/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=Variety Australia |language=en-AU |archive-date=June 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629115210/https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/netflix-removing-arrested-development-original-seasons-1235521721/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, after a last-minute deal, Netflix retained the streaming rights.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=J. Clara |date=March 24, 2023 |title='Arrested Development': Netflix Gains Exclusive Streaming Rights to All Seasons |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/arrested-development-netflix-streaming-rights-1235360608/ |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-date=March 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326175826/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/arrested-development-netflix-streaming-rights-1235360608/ |url-status=live }}</ref>