Arrested Development (TV series)

Arrested Development is an innovative television comedy on Fox, breaking the traditional bounds of a sitcom with narration, single-camera style filming, and on-site filming in place of the exclusive use of pre-built sets. It was nominated for a Golden Globe as best comedy, won a TVLand Award as a "Future Classic", and was named the best show on television by the Television Critics Association. The show gained a huge boost in winning the emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004.

The show centers around the dysfunctional Bluth family, whose patron George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) was thrown in jail for misleading accounting at his Bluth Corporation. His son, Michael (Jason Bateman) has taken over the company and now lives in one of its model homes with his son George Michael (Michael Cera), his sister Lindsay (Portia de Rossi), Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross), and Lindsay and Tobias's daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat). Michael's eccentric brothers GOB (Will Arnett) and Buster (Tony Hale) and his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), as well as Buster's girl friend Lucille Austero (Liza Minnelli) and Henry Winkler as the Bluth family attorney also appear.

The show's executive producer is Ron Howard who also provides the narration, giving a sort of documentary feel to the show.