Netflix to Release All 10 Upcoming ‘Arrested Development’ Shows at Once
Netflix is planning to simultaneously release the entire fourth season of Arrested Development “sometime next year,” the company announced at an event in Las Vegas Tuesday evening.
The streaming video subscription service is developing 10 episodes of the series, which was cancelled for poor performance in 2006, in partnership with Fox and Imagine Television.
Each episode will center around one character, the show’s creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, said from the stage. He added that the new shows will be similar to the previous ones, but declined to go into further specifics about the format or storyline.
Hurwitz also expressed hope that he and his team could go on to produce fourth and fifth seasons of the show for Netflix, should the first 10 episodes prove successful.
Netflix revealed in November that it had signed a deal to revive the beloved sitcom, which it would bring exclusively to its U.S. subscribers in the first half of 2013. The company now appears to be less certain about the timing of the release, but did say on Tuesday that episode production would begin this summer.
This isn’t the first time that Netflix has released an entire season of an original show at once. The company’s first original series, Lilyhammer, premiered its initial eight episodes all on Feb. 6, and is planning to bring the show back for a second season.
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