Arrested Development to return for a fifth season

The full cast, from Jeffrey Tambor to Alia Shawkat, is confirmed for the fifth season, and comments from the show's creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, suggest the show might take aim at a family even more narcissistic than the Bluths: the Trumps!

Article by The Skinny | 17 May 2017

The Bluths are back! Arrested Development, the cult sitcom following the trials of the formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional Bluth family, will return for a fifth season on its new home of streaming site Netflix.

News of the return was revealed last week when Jason Bateman – who plays lead character Michael Bluth, “the one son who had no choice but to keep his family together” – tweeted that it “Looks very probable I'm going to put some miles on the Stair Car this summer,” referencing the family’s unconventional form of transport.

Netflix has now confirmed the show will return next year with the entire cast in tow, with Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross and Alia Shawkat joining Bateman for this fifth series.

“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,” said series creator Mitchell Hurwitz. “I am so grateful to them and to 20th [Century Fox] 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 originally aired for three seasons on Fox from 2003 to 2006. In 2013, Netflix revived the series for a fourth season. Season 1-4 are currently streaming on Netflix now.