I’d like to see some more re-assurance coming out of Fox that the wonderful Arrested Development has not been, as reported on 10th February, cancelled. Arrested Development follows the lives of the Bluths, a dysfunctional Orange County family whose property-development business has been paralysed by fraud allegations against the idiosyncratic patriarch, George Bluth Sr. Among the most compelling characters are son Gob, a failed magician (or as he insists, ‘illusionist’), mollycoddled man-boy Buster Bluth and of course Michael Bluth, who as the only sane one amongst the clan is forced to pick up the pieces of the family’s exploits.

At the time Fox denied the cancellation but it seems still to be up in the air. David Cross, who plays the obliviously homosexual and aloof former psychiatrist and ‘nevernude’ Tobias Fünke in the show, recently remarked sarcastically on a TV talk show with his idea of what Fox might replace AD with.

Though to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Fox have put ‘America’s Cutest Retards’ into pre-production.

Here, TVSquad publishes a tongue-in-cheek campaign to have the show axed.

Cancel Arrested Development!!:

“You’ve heard the rumors. Emmy for Best Comedy, Golden Globe for Best Actor, WGA Award for Best Episodic Comedy - all of that be damned, low ratings deserve to be punished. And so Fox is probably on the cusp of cancelling Arrested Development. After all, as David Cross helpfully pointed out on The Jimmy Kimmel Show last month, Rupert Murdoch could make a lot more money off of a hip reality show like America’s Cutest Retards. Here at TV Squad, we have just one thing to say about that:

“Good Riddance!”

Yeah, that’s right. You heard me - we don’t want shows like Arrested Development sullying our beloved network. Face it, FOX - nobody wants to watch a character-driven comedy. We want traditional sitcoms that take place in living rooms. With couches. And lazy husbands and hot wives and mean-spirited children. Either that, or procedural dramas. Lots of them. Anything with forensics, you just keep coming. Reality is good too - let’s have more of those shows where attractive people eat bugs and poor people fight for prizes. In fact, just put those two shows together - make some hot bug-eating chicks fight over an unemployed factory worker, and then give the winning couple a makeover and a dream house. Then give us a shocking twist. Give us anything, as long as you take away Arrested Development.”

(Via Engadget.)