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Showtime Arrested Talks Confirmed

Source: Variety
January 20, 2006

Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt told Variety that the cable channel is in talks to pick up Arrested Development from Fox. "We're very interested in making it work for us," said Greenblatt.

"We're having productive conversations with Twentieth, but we're a step shy of closing a deal," Greenblatt said -- but a pair of major obstacles could still botch plans.

"(Creator Mitch Hurwitz) has not yet said, 'I want to continue to do the show,'" Greenblatt stated, adding Hurwitz's participation would be required if Showtime were to produce new episodes. "Also, 20th is asking for substantially more (coin) than what Fox is paying to license the show. It's very expensive.

"That said, it certainly fits what we do, and I'm a big fan of the show," the executive continued. "We're all trying very hard to make it happen."

Greenblatt insisted that bringing over the ratings-challenged comedy to Showtime made sense: "If even only a fraction of the Fox audience came to Showtime, it'd be a hit show for us."

this is so delicious

this is so weird that it must be great.

ankle update

it's been about 14 weeks since my grand ankle injury of 9/25/05, never forget.

i've only started working on it for the past couple weeks. yeah, it's been that long without running. it feels like it's been that much longer.

i've started doing 45 minutes on the elliptical machine at resistance 6 or 7 to get my heart and legs back. i did a half a mile jog on a treadmill this past weekend and that felt good. tonight, i got to about the same distance and then the back of my ankle told me that i shouldn't keep going. :(

i just need to go slowly and get my ankle used to the pounding on the treadmill before i can take it outside.

it's going to be slow getting back to where i was before (5.4 miles on the parkway). i hope to be back in 5k shape for the may 14th komen philadelphia race for the cure. it's a nice leisurely 5k that i think anybody can do and train for in a month's time.

oh please be true

'Arrested' developments

TelevisionWeek (from which I also stole the headline) is reporting that both ABC and Showtime have offered the producers of "Arrested Development" deals to continue the series on their networks. And it's all above board because when Fox reduced this season's order from 22 to 13 episodes, "the reduction triggered a clause in the show's contract enabling producers to shop the series elsewhere," sayeth TVWeek. The producers are said to be "mulling both offers," a one-year deal from ABC and a two-year deal from Showtime, part of the CBS fambly.

i chuckled in joy

holy shit again

i think we can safely append 3 or 4 more kills to jack's tab tonight.

i swear ctu has more moles than the western seaboard.

i should also note that 24 totally punched lost in the mouth and yelled that this was his house. i agree.

will arnett on conan

omg 24

holy frick.

i cannot believe how awesome the first two hours have been. <3 jack bauer <3

also: jack bauer kill count from 7am to 9am = 3

championship games set

AFC -- Pittsburgh at Denver 3:00 p.m. CBS
NFC -- Carolina at Seattle 6:30 p.m. FOX

lol patriots

hahahaha. the patriots reign of tyranny is over!

god bless the internet.

freee.... as a bird

lols

carbonite

february 10th, book it!

OUT OF THE BLUTH: Fox has announced a Friday, Feb. 10, two-hour season finale that's what the memo says, season finale for Arrested Development. In the season finale that's what the memo says, season finale Fast Times at Ridgemont High's Judge Reinhold will guest-star, as well as Arrested headliner Jason Bateman's real-life sis, Family Ties alum Justine Bateman, playing a woman who may or may not be Michael's half-sister.

passing it along from a friend

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electronics

just for future reference:

SON HTDDW660 Sony Home Theater System (HT-DDW660)
SON HTDDW660

SAM TXP3064W Samsung 30" HDTV Monitor (TX-P3064W)
SAM TXP3064W

microsoft live is pretty hawt

rss portal thing.

whips google reader, in my opinion.

no arrested developments currently scheduled...

2. What are some other Mid-Season backup shows not yet scheduled for the 2005/06 Season?

ANSWER:
BACKUP SHOWS (to air sometime in later this season - sometime in 2006):

o THE LOOP [NEW COMEDY]
o FREE RIDE [NEW COMEDY]
o NANNY 911 [2ND SEASON]
o HELL'S KITCHEN [2ND SEASON]
o SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE [2ND SEASON]
o ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT [Remainder of 3RD SEASON]

starting at 300k

holy moly, they're going to finish this in two years at 20th and market.

those crazy asians

neat stuff at ces

dual core laptop?

dual core graphics card? 2x in sli mode = 4 gpu cores? holy moly.

attn tea lovers and posers

i got my order of tea in from this place and it is amazing. i got enough for like half a year. totally worth it and the shipping from canada only took a week.

westcoast peppermint, chamomile bliss, vanilla plantation, sublime, philospher's brew, and green dragon.

sweet jesus

dell 30" flat lcd.

i appreciate my 20" flat. i can't imagine appreciating a 30" flat.

top 50 music videos of 2005

via bamf.

oh hell yeah

i have no idea what it means.

but it's certainly rocking.

sending some stuff to army

i've got two shoebox-sized boxes that i'll be sending to anthony in iraq. i'm filling it with toiletries, bootleg dvds, snacks, and contraband. good times.

i guess it's over

According to FOX's schedule for next week there are episodes of HOUSE in place of AD.

Yeah, Fox put in two back to back episodes of House for next weeks slot. So this pretty much is the end of Arrested on Fox unless they change something around.

so the eagles season is finally over

an abysmal season. and i'm glad that it's finally over and done with. there's a ton of problems with the team that need to be remedied via free agency and the draft. it'll be very interesting to see how much the team changes over this offseason.

the eagles need a ton of help at defensive end and tackle. quarterback pressure with a 4 man front is priceless and we can't even get pressure with a 5-6 man blitz anymore.

i also think sheldon brown should've made the pro bowl. he was a goddamn super tyranosaurus rex in a few games. i think the defensive line's lack of pressure totally negated his talent this year.

my new years resolution

1680x1050 and 1024x768.

next potluck

for the takeout potluck at my apt.

Super Bowl XL -- Sun., Feb. 5 on ABC -- Ford Field, Detroit, Mich.

evites and other logistics to be worked out soon.

happy new year, bitches

here's hoping for a good 2006.

mario kart will never be the same

somebody gave bobby brown a show?

bonus: it has whitney!

achtung baby!

i miss terry tate.

center city renaissance

That's an opinion shared by an army of out-of-towners, recent college graduates, and suburban empty-nesters who are swelling Center City's population and remaking its neighborhoods.

Consider the following:

Though Philadelphia as a whole is still losing residents, Center City has the third-largest downtown population after New York and Chicago. Since 2000, its population has increased 11.5 percent, from 78,902 to 88,000. Experts say it could reach 96,000 to 105,000 by 2010.

Retail occupancy in Center City is now at 90 percent - 3 percent higher than 2004. This year, the Urban Land Institute listed Center City among the nation's top 10 for urban retailing.

By year's end, says a November report by the Center City District, 8,235 new housing units - new construction and condominium conversions of older buildings - will have been completed since 1997. By 2008, an additional 3,574 will be done - with 7,204 more proposed.

i really like it down here. i feel safer in center city at 1am than i do at 9pm in the northeast. there's always something going on and everything is nearby. if you work down here, you don't even need a car. besides rent, it's not as expensive as everybody thinks it is.

i'm going to look for a more permanent condo home down here in 2006.

from the latest tv guide

NEW DEVELOPMENT?

Arrested Development fans may soon have reason to smile: Both ABC and Showtime have expressed interest in picking up the apparently doomed Fox series. The networks involved wouldn't comment, but media analyst Stacey Lynn Koerner thinks the show's best bet is ABC. "It has a large promotional base and stable of shows," she says. "On Showtime, the audience wouldn't even be as large as it was on Fox." A post-cancellation pick-up turned JAG into a hit in 1997 when CBS took it over from NBC. It could work here, too.

working on something

on what?

a program to keep track of what work pants and shirts i have in my closet. and which shirts go with which pants.

and a simulation of how many times a year i would wear each article so i can determine the expected wear/tear. and then i can figure out how much of each type of item i need.

too many clothes = too much money and too much investment into the "current" style.
too few clothes = clothes get worn/torn much faster.

i think this problem can be solved through pure brutal german mathematic calculus.

2005 in review, television

Highlights of 2005:

• Lost: "Everything's going to change..."
• 24: "I'm going to call the only person I can trust."
• House: Any sarcastic House comment.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "And then we went into the alley and I tore his ass up!"
• Arrested Development: "Her?"
• Rome
• Family Guy
• The OC

we've got the fifth season of 24 starting on the 15th. a goddamn two night/4 hour premiere.

lost starts back up on the 11th.

house and arrested development should start up again in the first week of january.

i'm excited to see when it's always sunny in philadelphia will start up again.

in the tv "offseason" this summer, i'm hoping to catch up on battlestar galactica and rome. i hear that's pretty awesome.

attn elliott smith fans

tons of rarities, videos, and live material.

new york new york

Yuppie girl #1: God, this train is so crowded.
Yuppie girl #2: I hate it when the train is packed like this.
Yuppie girl #1: I just want to shove people, but there's nowhere to shove them to, it's so crowded.
Guy: Whoa, peace on earth, goodwill toward men, everyone just settle down.

--1 train

merry christmukah

enjoy your christmukah, bitches.

2005 in review, movies

Quite a year it was. Interestingly enough, a good portion of these movies were from the International Film Festival. I'm glad I didn't miss out on it this year.

Presented in no particular order.

• The Life Aquatic
• Murderball
• Oldboy
• Survive Style 5+
• Sin City
• King Kong
• The Aristocrats

oh my god

diplomacy is like a risk player's wet dream.

there is no honor in this game.

derek would love it.

oh man

i didn't get home from catherine's birthday spectacular until 2am and i have work in a few hours. i had a good time and i think everybody enjoyed it.

srsly.

i think today is the finest i'll ever eat: cuba libre for lunch and pod for dinner. absolutely ridiculous.

hahahaha

tonight's arrested development was gold.

"And that's why... you don't teach your father a lesson."

movie review: king kong

peter jackson could've easily cut 45 minutes from this movie and made it earn 9/10 instead of 7/10 from me. instead, we get 45 minutes of peter jackson wanking with his lotr oscar statues. other than that, it was good except for jack black's overacting.

p.s. GIANT CENTIPEDES IN MY MOUF.
p.p.s. KONG ISN'T THE MONSTER. WE'RE THE MONSTERS!!!!

this makes me so sad

i don't think most people thought about dogs as a species.

noooooo

NOT PALOM AND POROM!!!

GOOOOOOOOLLLLLBEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!

mario institute of technology

jesus christ almighty

what!

i think i threw up a little bit.

great scott!!

hooray for the internet

picked up ff4

took my final tonight. none of the questions were what i expected. a lot more proofs than i wanted. but i think i did alright.

i also picked up final fantasy 4 today for the gba. good times.

final fantasy 6 is where it's really at though. hopefully soon...

subtle comedy gold that should be stored in fort knox

540kb animated gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark#.22Jump_the_shark.22_references

halo night

turned into arrested development night. not that there's anything wrong with that although i do wish we had more halo time (aka battle rifle into face time).

:chicken dance:

finally

it took me a nearly 6 hour final push but i've finally finished advance wars: ds.

overall verdict on the campaign: b+.

i felt that a lot of the final missions were gimmicky. capture these in 24 turns, etc. it wasn't overly difficult. i'll have to try some of the war room stuff, which i feel is where the bread+buffer is refridgerated.

:(

Also according to the-op.com's board someone has been informed that the show will get to air up to its tenth episode and then the remaining three will go out on the DVD set. I hope this isn't true but I won't be surprised if it is.

http://the-op.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2213&start=195

also:
http://eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_12.08.05/features/feature.html

also:

yahoo news

Fox benched the criminally low-rated for the duration of November sweeps, and last month cut back the season order from 22 to 13 episodes. The news came after eight shows were already in the can, leaving production just five new episodes to wrap up the Bluth family saga.

At least on Fox. Producer Brian Grazer told CNN last week that he is working feverishly to move the sitcom to another home.

"I think we'll get picked up by some other network, possibly," he said. "You never know.

"I can't tell you anything other than I'm hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I'm optimistic."

animal crossing

i know nothing about this game but all of the talk about going online and visiting other people's towns gets me all hot.

p.s. final fantasy 4 gba comes out next tuesday!

current music

"no cars go" and "woodland national anthem" by arcade fire. it's off their demo disk. the album is kinda uneven but those are my two favorites from the album.

i tried sigur ros but it's really hard to get into at work.

i played radiohead's ok computer this afternoon. wow, is that a classic. "climbing up the walls" has to be one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever.

well my football season is effectively over

"i love the eagles but fuck'em when they lose."

overheard from a homeless woman in front of the wawa

"michael love marry"

"look at banner, michael!" <3 gob.

another excellent arrested development with such an excellent bittersweet ending.

snow already?!!


WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY
Today...Mostly cloudy. Snow likely this afternoon. Snow accumulation an inch or less by dusk. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.

Tonight...Snow. Total snow accumulation of 5 to 7 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.


jon voight as the pope?

i can't imagine the guy in mission impossible being the pope.

is it wrong to laugh?

original myspace suicide

parody:
hitler
picard
vader
medieval
world of warcraft

truth

awesome commercial

only in san fran.

and it appears to be real.

oh tobias

not work safe

edit: flash version at video.google

that was an interesting episode of lost

hello?

omg

got my new speaker system and dell 2005fpw up.

this is ridiculous.

25 begins

eat it, 24.

very interesting

Don Wise, professor emeritus of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the nation's foremost proponent of ID. No, Wise isn't getting ready to testify on behalf of the school board in Dover, PA. Rather, he advocates for a different version of the acronym: "incompetent design."

Wise cites serious flaws in the systems of the human body as evidence that design in the universe exhibits not an obvious source of, but a sore lack of, intelligence. Seed asked him to chat about his theory, reactions he's received to it, and the anthem he penned to rally people to his cause.

So is there intelligence in the design?

Yes! No, no there isn't. The thing that perhaps is closest to all of us is our own skeleton, and there are certainly all kinds of stupidity in our design. No self-respecting engineering student would make the kinds of dumb mistakes that are built into us.

All of our pelvises slope forward for convenient knuckle-dragging, like all the other great apes. And the only reason you stand erect is because of this incredible sharp bend at the base of your spine, which is either evolution's way of modifying something or else it's just a design that would flunk a first-year engineering student.

Look at the teeth in your mouth. Basically, most of us have too many teeth for the size of our mouth. Well, is this evolution flattening a mammalian muzzle and jamming it into a face or is it a design that couldn't count accurately above 20?

Look at the bones in your face. They're the same as the other mammals' but they're just squashed and contorted by jamming the jaw into a face with your brain expanding over it, so the potential drainage system in there is so convoluted that no plumber would admit to having done it!
So is this evolution or is this plain stupid design?

"As someone with poorly aligned teeth, a bad knee, and sinus problems, I feel that this man speaks my language."

BREAK THAT SHIT DOWN, SON!!!

i adore the filth that comes out of her mouth

"sarah silverman: jesus is magic" opens this friday at the ritz.

<3

p.s. you know joe franklin threatened to sue her over her infamous joke in the aristocrats...

well then, perhaps at a later convenience

kthx.

so tell me how rent was

go

leftovers

whole wheat bread + leftover turkey + mayo + lettuce + spice mustard + flat pickle

=

delicious

aristocrats dvd on 1/24/06

happy thanksgiving

"ahhh, the sea. may our joys be as great as its depths and our lives as tasty as its residents."

sexbox360

well, me and scott were gonna roll down to best buy tonight but they were all out. :|

ahh well. i might buy a super-discounted laptop or two from dell and try to sell it on ebay or something. srsly.

i would love to afford to buy a rebel xt dslr camera someday. i love photography as a hobby but i don't do enough of it to justify spending $1000 on a highend camera. and using a dslr over my point+shoot is like comparing a ferrari to a pinto. le sigh.

is it?

i love this commercial so much

<3

this has gone too far

a girl in front of me paid for her coffee with her credit card.

$1.16.

attn: xmas is in the air

i just finished watching schindler's list

for the first time.

i
hate
the
whole
fucking
world
and
my
faith
in
humanity
no
longer
exists.

wtfwow

i found a WoW trial disk in this month's maxim.

p.s. cindy crawford!!

omg srsly?

i want some.

stamp collecting.

more karting

4 player kart action over the internet. it is some hot stuff. i raced against people from my gaming messageboard. i thought i was a good kart racer until i got destroyed one-on-one by another gamer. now i'm working on the singleplayer to get good again.

the key to being good is double dashing (turbo boosting during slides) through every single turn as many times as possible.

this is really fun.

mario kart ds

omg, it's as good as i hoped. excellent tracks, excellent controls.

it's a pain to get the internet part set up but once you get online play working, it's totally worth it.

more later.

oh yes

i want the bluth and annyong shirts.

would you like a banger in the mouth?

my stint as the sausage man last night was successful. i believe everybody enjoyed my sausages.

everybody.

i think i made a huge mistake

>:(

i swear to god, i blame america for not supporting this show. THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. BECAUSE WE CAN'T APPRECIATE NICE THINGS.

god, help me

i made a thing on friendster.

add me plz.

history will not treat intelligent design kindly

kansas. :roll:

"alias is a show about spies"

all is well in the land of milk and honey, my friends.

i don't understand how this show continues to keep delivering without burning out.

you're kidding me

88|

septa strike is finally over

and i celebrated by walking home from work.

and derek thought me and anand were kidding

ds = double satisfaction

i'm about a quarter through advance wars: ds campaign and i have to say that it is indeed hot shit. i'm enjoying getting back into the aw mix. overall, i'm enjoying the ds. it's not as slick as the psp but i do love the ds games more.

i also let derek borrow aw2 for gba. i'm hoping he catches on and we can get some aw multiplayer going.

i am also anticipating some ds tunneling software. i believe aw:ds + internet would be hawt.

so delicious

i'll probably buy a ds this weekend. and advance wars ds.

i am considering myself as the mario-kartadore until beaten otherwise.

oh hell yes

a copy of the massive attack-portishead in bristol tsunami charity concert in .wmv?

88|

edit: i want to make babies with beth gibbon's voice.

septa strike, day 3

i re-tweaked my bad ankle yesterday.

this is not looking good.

just finished watching deep impact

when that bird flu goes human, we are so screwed. i'm not too worried about the flu. i'm more worried about what is gonna happen when everybody panics.

septa strike, day 2

i suspect a few poor souls started but never made it across the 30th street crosswalks. i tip my hat.

i'm starting to feel the burn a little bit. i realized today that i need some extra fuel for 3 miles of walking everyday. it is starting to wear me down a little bit.