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‘Arrested Development’ back for ’18


Save room for some more frozen bananas and grade-A Bluth dysfunction: “Arrested Development” is officially coming back to Netflix for Season 5.
After years of teasing, the dark comedy will return with its marquee cast as well as series creator Mitchell Hurwitz in 2018, the streaming service announced Wednesday.
“In talks with Netflix we all felt that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving family in the building business — and their desperate abuses of power — are really underrepresented on TV,” Hurwitz joked in a statement.
Actors Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross and Alia Shawkat will reprise their quirky roles and the painfully awkward shenanigans of the eccentric clan. Filmmaker Ron Howard will also return as narrator and executive producer.
“Whew! I can finally answer the question… Hell yes! Warming up my uncredited narrator vocal cords,” Howard said in the statement. “Now the only thing I will have to be coy about is all the craziness the Bluths are going to face this season.”
The situation comedy was canceled by Fox after its third season and revived by Netflix for Season 4 in 2013, attracting new viewers and fueling subscriber growth
— Los Angeles Times