Arrested Development is simply the best show on all of television, not just on a network. The fact that Fox continues to mistreat the program, everyone involved with it, and the thousands of fans who support it, is incredibly disheartenting. Shows like "Stacked" and "The War At Home" are not what television viewers want to see, Neilsen numbers be damned. AD, it's crew and its fans deserve better.
"Come on!" this is the best show on TV. It is smart and witty where other shows rely on cheap gags and big boobs (i.e. Stacked) Keep the one decent show on all of network TV, the only reason I watch Fox is for this show. Also Fox has not done it's homework vis a vis the promoting angle. You left it off the air for absolute weeks for baseball, and people should just have esp to know when it's coming back? I watched the one hour on Monday because I happened to check the channel, but I saw not ONE commercial over the weekend or on Monday for it coming back. Until like during the half hour before it started.
Please, have some respect for the loyal and smart fans of Arrested who love the show, and have some respect for yourselves. Don't just keep Stacked on the air because the ratings go up when a blonde bimbo with big boobs is on the screen while cancelling the best thing to ever be produced, Arrested Development, which is great by its own writing and cast merits not breast implants.
Please either renew this show or move it to a network that cares about quality television. A show like Arrested Development comes around once every 10 years, to throw it away would be a huge mistake.
For a show as smart as AD to be cancelled would be a crying shame. Fox just isn't the place for it to flurish, if they move if over to FX and block it with "sunny in philidelphia" they might just have another "must watch tv" night on the already marvelous FX line-up.
Nielsen Ratings are BS and everyone knows it.
Fox is run by morons. It's hopeless, the show is over, my signing of this petition is completely pointless.
You've got to be kidding me with this cancellation business!! The writing and cast are phenomenal! The fault for this show's lack of success should fall on the shoulders of the PR/contract department - please cancel THEM. The people who REALLY know what they're doing are handing this show awards hand over fist - THEY know what they're doing! PLease follow their example and expose this goldmine for all it's worth. Please don't cancel - we can't lose Michael/Tobias/Gob/George Michael!!! They're amazing characters and actors. And the writing is superbly intelligent! Please.
This is by far my favorite show on television. Please keep it on the air!! Taking it off for weeks at a time because of baseball and now sweeps only makes it harder to draw viewers.
"Arrested Development" is one of the best comedies to come to the air in several years, and it's the one of the very few shows that brings FOX any kind of respect at all. Cancelling this brilliant show is a huge mistake, as GOB would say.
I love this show. It's so smart, and no laugh track to insult your intelligence and actually tell you whats funny. if they dont bring it back, I'm never watching a FOX show ever again. not even Family Guy. and I love Family Guy.
everyone i know loves arrested development- how do FOX execs figure that it should be pulled from their line-up? this will prove to be a huge mistake... FOX- keep arrested development on the air!!!
Arrested Development is the only good show to come out in the last 5 years. You are not allowed to cancel it. It's friggin hilarious. Everything else on TV sucks. Its the only show on TV that I watch. And I buy the DVD's. DO NOT CANCEL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fox? Helpful tip, here. If you want to be respected as a network critically as well as commercially, you need a few shows that have actual clout. 24, Arrested Development... these shows are what you build the future of your network on, not assinine, mainstream rubbish like "Wife Swap" or "Who Wants to Have Sex With My Grandmother?"
You interrupt the new season with sports and don't give us a chance to adjust to the return schedule. Honestly, I miss the start of the fall seasons when shows were aired in regular time slots for weeks on end.
What the hell is wrong with Fox? They create some of the best shows around... They amass some of the biggest cult followers... And every time they don't manage to get EVERY.LAST.IDIOT in America glued to their TV's for each episode, they pull the plug. I think it's about time that I and pretty much every other Fox viewer just gives up on the network.
I say just rerun the really good episodes that don't require thinking like the "Afternoon Delight" episode a million times and the ratings would pile up
It's a great show and it would be a travesty to kill off one of the few good comedies on network television while only promoting the bad shows like Stacked and The War at Home
