Arrested Development Season 5 Cast Updates, Potential Release Date, And News

May 6, 2018 steezy

Arrested Development ushered in the revival era of television when it came back from the dead in 2013. The fourth season on Netflix had a mixed reaction from fans and critics alike, but the Bluths are ready to have another go at it. Netflix officially picked up Arrested Development season 5 and production is underway. Here’s what we know about Arrested Development season 5…

Arrested Development Season 5 Latest News

EW reports that Ron Howard will be returning to do the show’s voiceover.

Talking with Rotten Tomatoes, Jason Bateman said that season five will be a return to the Fox format:

“I’ve read the first three scripts, and it all continues to be either all together or paired off in twos and threes, basically the same format as the Fox episodes, so that’s all back on.”

“It is pretty much a direct pick-up from where we left off in season 4, so I would recommend before season 5 starts for people to go back through that fourth season and try to refamiliarize yourself as best you can with that, because the first two episodes of the fifth season basically stitch into the final parts of the fourth season as a sort of a continuation and it kind of zippers the two together, then starting in episode 3, really starts covering all the new ground of this fifth season.”

Arrested Development Season 5 Cast

Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat will all return to reprise their roles on the show.

Said creator Mitchell Hurwitz about the renewal: “In talks with Netflix we all felt that that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving family in the building business — and their desperate abuses of power — are really underrepresented on TV these days. I am so grateful to them and to 20th TV for making this dream of mine come true in bringing the Bluths, George Sr., Lucille and the kids; Michael, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, George-Michael, and who am I forgetting, oh Tiffany. Did I say Tiffany? — back to the glorious stream of life.”

Clearly, we can expect one or two jabs at the first family in the new season…

The big news here is that Jeffrey Tambor has been officially confirmed to return in Arrested Development Season 5, per Variety. This is significant because Tambor was fired as the lead of Amazon’s Transparent following sexual harassment allegations.