Steve Swasey, vice-president of CorporateCommunicationsat Netflix, told National Post that “the return  of Arrested Development exclusively on Netflix will be in the US only.” Those living outside the US will have to wait for the eventual DVD.

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Mitch Hurwitz and several members of the cast appeared onstage together at a Netflix-sponsored event on Tuesday in Las Vegas. Netflix chief Ted Sarandos confirmed that all ten episodes of Arrested’s long-awaited fourth season will premiere together on a single day sometime next year. Hurwitz also confirmed that production is set to begin this summer, but he also dropped a new nugget of information about what form the Arrested revival will take.

Originally, Hurwitz’s plan had been to make the revival like an anthology, with each episode telling a somewhat self-contained story about a specific character. “That is now kind of evolving into becoming more like the old show again.” The reason for the change: Hurwitz sees a chance to tweak the show’s format to take advantage of the fact that the full ten-episode season will debut at once, rather than over two-and-a-half months. “There’s something exciting about trying to break the form again,” he said.

Hurwitz and the cast made no mention onstage of the rumored Arrested Development movie that’s been expected to follow the TV revival. He did, however, say he’d very much be open to a season five or six on Netflix (!!!). “We would love this to be the first first of many visits,” Hurwitz said. 

A few other random notes from Tuesday’s Netflix and Arrested session:

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What is the status of Arrested Development? Do you have any idea when you might actually film that, and are you excited that it’s finally going to happen?

HOWARD: There’s not a specific start date, but Mitch Hurwitz is definitely working to quickly get it all underway. I don’t want to burden him with any release dates, but I know he’s well underway and it’s something he’s been thinking about a lot, over the previous year. It’s a huge challenge ‘cause we’re talking about 10 episodes, or almost character studies, individually featuring various characters from the Bluth family and showing where they are now and updating audiences, as we build to what we eventually expect and hope will be a movie. So, we need to re-acclimate everybody, and I think he’s got some hilarious idea about where these characters are in the world now, four or five years later, what they’ve been up to, what their frame of mind is now, and how they relate to each other. It’s pretty hilarious, outrageous stuff. Mitch is really enjoying delving back into the Bluth family.

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First and foremost, Hale made sure to give credit to “the fans that have kept the show alive. We have the fans to thank for it coming back. Their support is really what has kept the engine going, so that’s the foundation of it all.”

Though details of the Bluth-Fünke reunion haven’t been set in stone, Hale assured that there would be plenty of surprises up creator Mitch Hurwitz’s sleeve. “The big thing about the show was that every week we were surprised,” he said. “You never knew which direction it was going to go.” With this new phase of Development finally reached, Hale said, “I’m most excited about seeing what Mitch is stirring up — where he’s going to take these people, what has happened in the past five years of their lives?”

What would be on Hale’s wish list for Buster? “Hopefully he has not left his mother’s side,” he said. Also, “I’d love for Liza Minnelli to come back. I’d love for Buster to see his girlfriend again.” Hale also would like to see Buster keep up with the times in addressing his missing hand. “I want him to go bionic,” he said. “Maybe he connected with Apple, and there’s some sort of iPod attachment. Maybe he’s got like an iPad as a hand? … Surely, with the advances of technology, something interesting has happened.”

Since more than half a decade passed since he last stepped into Buster’s khakis, Hale plans to take a trip down Memory Lane with his own Arrested marathon. What moment is he most excited about seeing again? “When Buster went off on his mother in a cuss fest,” he laughed. “[There was] so much pent-up anger… and that was his opportunity to let it rip.” 

Source: insidetv.ew.com

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