mitchell hurwitz-related stories
Posted Oct 5th 2009 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free
Does it seem like every other month there's some talk about the proposed
Arrested Development movie? Perhaps that's because it's an idea that simply won't go away until the film is actually in theaters and fans of the Emmy-winning Fox series will finally be satisfied. Well, satisfaction may be just around the corner. The
Arrested Development movie is really developing now. Creator
Mitchell Hurwitz is at work on the screenplay -- working with co-executive producer James Vallely -- and the Bluths are creeping closer to big screen reality.
Continue reading The latest about the Arrested Development movie
Posted Aug 27th 2009 12:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Arrested Development, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It's been a while since we heard any news about that
Arrested Development movie that might be happening, might not be happening, was being written, was being thought about, etc. Now comes word from Jason Bateman that the movie is still a go and it's still being written as we speak.
Bateman tells Collider.com that Mitch Hurwitz is still writing the script, and once that's done they have to get the scheduling of the filming down (which won't be easy with so many cast members).
Continue reading Arrested Development movie update: not much of an update
Posted Apr 10th 2009 2:25PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Animation, Interviews, Casting, Reality-Free
With
Arrested Development, Mitchell Hurwitz went through the ringer with critical support, winning awards, and grassroots campaigns to convince Fox to keep the show on the air that ultimately failed. So what does Hurwitz do for a follow-up? He takes some of the same cast (Will Arnett, Jason Bateman), goes back to the same network (Fox), and back to an idea he had before
Arrested hit the airwaves.
The new show is
Sit Down, Shut Up, an animated series that debuts April 19th at 8:30 PM, in between
The Simpsons and
Family Guy.
"It's funny, this is a show that I actually wrote in the year 2000, and it was an adaptation of a live-action show from Australia," Hurwitz said in a recent conference call. "I kind of kept it in the drawer for a long time, and finally brought it out, mostly because I needed money, which - I enjoy money, and I also use it for all sorts of different things in my life, but mostly for food and shelter."
Continue reading Mitchell Hurwitz talks Sit Down, Shut Up and Arrested Development
Posted Jan 18th 2009 2:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
The long, drawn-out cancellation of
Arrested Development was one of television's greatest crimes against humanity. It ranks right up there with the approval of a new
Knight Rider when the original was already one too many, the spinoff
Baywatch Nights, and the made-for-TV movie
Knight Rider 2000. That's right, I just hassled the Hoff. If any of you want a piece of me, I also come with a side of "whoop-ass."
But with the
Arrested Development movie clawing its way inch-by-inch towards the big screen, Mitchell Hurwitz will at least have one other project on the horizon and on the very same network that tried to destroy him. Either he's showing he's a good guy and can take rejection in stride, or he's trying to bring down the place from the inside. You make the call.
Fox announced that Hurwitz's new show,
Sit Down, Shut Up, will air sometime next fall. Critics also got an advance screening at
the Television Critics Association conference last week.
Continue reading Arrested Development creator returns to the network that killed him, possibly for vengeance?
Posted Dec 26th 2008 3:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Arrested Development, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It does look like that
Arrested Development movie will get made at some point, some way, some how. But it's not a given that every single member of the cast will be in the film. There have been many reports that the only cast member holding out is Michael Cera, who played George Michael. Is it because he doesn't want to go back to something he already finished? Is it because he has a movie career (
Superbad,
Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist,
Youth in Revolt, etc)?
Creator Mitchell Hurwitz puts an end to the stories and rumors in this
interview with Fancast. He says that...uh, yeah, actually, Cera
is the one holding up the film.
Continue reading Here's why that Arrested Development movie is being held up
Posted Jun 16th 2008 2:28PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
And you thought that all that business with the WGA strike was over.
The writers for the new animated FOX show Sit Down, Shut Up have walked out, saying they were misled by Sony Pictures. They thought that under the agreement reached a few months ago they would be represented by the Writer's Guild of America but Sony actually has them covered under the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Under their rules, writers don't get all those things they fought for, including new media (online, DVD, etc) money or even residuals.
Continue reading Sit Down, Shut Up writers stand up and walk out
Posted Nov 9th 2007 2:36PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, WGA Strike
Yup, she's working.
Ellen DeGeneres crossed the picket line and went back to work hosting her TV talk show, and writers aren't happy about it at all. In the opening of her show today, she told the audience that she wasn't going to do a monologue and that she loves and supports the writers, but she wanted to go on with the show for the studio audience that had traveled a long way to see her show.
Continue reading Writers not happy with Ellen DeGeneres
Posted Sep 14th 2006 1:05PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Showtime, Talent, Industry, Interviews, NYTVF
After he participated in a
hilarious NYTVF panel discussion with fellow showrunners Mike Scully and Phil Rosenthal, Mitchell Hurwitz, who was the executive producer of
Arrested Development, was nice enough to give me a couple of minutes after he came off stage. Of course, the conversation had to do with his decision to end
AD, even though Showtime was going to pick up the show for a fourth season. His responses were interesting.
JK: I interviewed Will Arnett about a month ago, and he told me a lot of the same stuff you mentioned during the panel, that Arrested kept getting renewed because it kept getting awards and it would make FOX look bad to ax it.
Hurwitz: You know, I shouldn't be talking about this, because it really sounds like sour grapes. But it was a privilege. It was a privileged experience, and I know it was a privileged experience. But nonetheless, it's such a high-stakes thing, that when you're cancelled very late, and all that work, that it feels like it didn't turn into a profit, you know. But the more I get away from it, the more I realize that, no, they... they put it on the air.
Continue reading A fast Q&A with Mitchell Hurwitz of Arrested Development
Posted Sep 14th 2006 11:09AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, OpEd, NYTVF
Because of Tuesday night's festival kickoff party, I decided to sleep in a little yesterday. Because of that, I missed both a morning panel on the value of independent TV production, which included Doug Herzog, the president of Comedy Central. I also missed the screening for the first set of Drama pilots. But I did manage to catch the first batch of Reality pilots, the first batch of Comedy pilots, and a really funny panel discussion about the American family on TV.
Why was the panel hilarious? Because the three people on the panel were executive producers Mitchell Hurwitz of
Arrested Development, Phil Rosenthal of
Everybody Loves Raymond, and Mike Scully of
The Simpsons. So no one was left unscathed joke-wise; even the creator of
7th Heaven was lovingly labeled a "whore."
Continue reading NYTVF: Screenings and a trio of sitcom bigwigs
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