We might need an analrapist at this point. Executive producer Brian Grazer has once again talked about the eventual fifth season of Arrested Development, but we still have no idea when this is going to come.
In a new interview with CNNMoney, Grazer said that creator Mitch Hurwitz is creating a fresh writer’s room to plot out the new season.
“More [episodes] are coming for sure,” Grazer said, adding, “The creator Mitch Hurwitz is creating a writer's room right now. We're going to get everybody on board.”
Grazer and Netflix have been talking constantly about making a fifth season of the cult show, but there is still no deal between Netflix and 20th Century Fox TV, which produces the show.
These new comments make Grazer’s comments this past spring seem unlikely to come true. In April, Grazer told Bill Simmons on The BS Report that there would be 17 episodes, which sounded awfully specific at the time. Then in June Grazer told comedian Adam Corolla that production would start as early as Jan. 1, 2016.
As Collider points out, all that seems a bit unlikely to happen at this point, since there’s no deal in place at all. Oh well, we’ll just have to sit and wait. Hopefully it wasn’t as long as the seven-year gap between Fox cancelling it in 2003 and the Netflix revival.
Arrested Development is about the ongoing misadventures of the Bluth family. The cast includes Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Arnett, Portia De Rossi, Alia Shawkat, David Cross, Tony Hale and Jessica Walter.