Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested Development’s creator and showrunner, has decided to quit, despite a deal on the table from Showtime. That’s pretty much the death-knell for the series. Star Jason Bateman’s comments:
“I’m so proud of it and so like it as a TV fan that I’m happy we’re not going to get a chance to screw it up,” he said, in the deadpan style of his character, Michael Bluth, about the only sane member of the dysfunctional Bluth clan. “Our luck wouldn’t have held. There would have been cast fighting. We would have messed it up.”
Link to the article by long-time AD supporter Tim Goodman of the SF Chronicle.